༺ Sewing All The Things ༻

In my Shooting for the Stars post, I mentioned that one of my goals this year was to get faster and better at sewing my own clothes. 
I think that the best way to do this is to sew lots and lots of garments ~ as many as I can! To help me work on this, I’ve decided to do a list {surprise, surprise} of the clothes I’d like to sew up this year.

• March: Circle skirt {w/ elastic waist, stash busting}
• April: Summer Wrap Dress: Simplicity 2275 {stash busting – done in May instead of blouse}

• May: 1940’s Winter Blouse: Simplicity 3688 {stash busting??}  
         1940’s Summer Blouse: Simplicity 1590 {Done in April; Spring for Cotton challenge}
• June: Winter 3/4 Sleeve 1940's Navy Shirtwaist Dress:
                                                              Hollywood Pattern 1244
  
           ~ Leaving a space for the Sisterhood of the Travelling Pattern project I’m apart of ~
• July: Swing pants: Simplicity 3688 {baby corduroy}
  
  
         Winter Circle Skirt {baby corduroy}
• August: Playsuit & Skirt: Simplicity 4289
  
  
  
• September: Jersey Dress x2: Advance 3886 & Advance 9785

• October: 2nd Playsuit w/ separate Top, Shorts, & Skirt:
                                                                       Simplicity 4289
• November: Peasant Blouses x2: No pattern for this project yet    Pattern found; Simplicity 2483. One blouse sewn up for Christmas, December 2015

You may notice that I’m planning to recycle a lot of the patterns and sew them up twice.  I think this may actually help me achieve my goals because I will be more comfortable with the pattern once it is sewn, and hopefully I will be faster with putting it together the second time around. 

Also, I shall probably have to trace most of these patterns off depending on how fragile they are.  I must admit, I’ve gotten quite slack with this recently and just used the pattern straight out without tracing off first.

This is mostly because I don’t use pins for cutting, just fabric weights {old horse shoes I’ve collected off a few of my horses that were shod when we bought them (＾-＾)}, and I don’t do any adjustments to the pattern, or mark it in anyway. However, I feel this is not the best habit to fall into because the tissue paper is so fragile, and really I should be making a better effort to preserve the pattern. I’m going to make sure I take the time to trace and to photocopy the pattern instructions.

What do you think though? Do you trace your vintage patterns before using them?  Also, do you have any sewing plans this year? 

xox,

bonita

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