Colourful Teacher Gifts

 

Last year, for teacher gifts, I made the Mother & Daughter Totes from Oliver+S which is one of their free patterns. I'm not sure why I didn't make them again this year, but this pattern on Sew4home caught my eye.

It is a Roll-up Makeup Brush Case, made with a wipe-clean lining. Most of these type of patterns have square corners, but I liked the curved corners and the Sew4home website gives a template for this.

 

It's a lovely easy pattern and what took me the most time was joining the bias binding on the outside.

This is the inside of one of the rolls with some mini brushes inside

and opened out to get the full effect.

I used a very varied mixture of fabric from Stenzo, Hilco, Moda, Farbenmix, Patty Young and laminated cottons from Amy Butler and Anna Maria Horner.

 

I've had a lot of fun making these, matching and mis-matching colours of fabrics, bias and ribbons. I have 2 more to make and that will be the end of my assembly-line sewing for a while.



 

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Japanese Bubble Dress and Bubble Hat

I made my daughter a dress to wear for her brother's confirmation, while taking an unscheduled break from jacket sewing!

It took us a while to decide, but the starting point was a pair of tights and a hairband which I've had for about a year and which I was afraid she would be grown out of

Interesting ( as in I have too much pink, and that I bought it for myself) that the only matching fabric I had was this voile from Anna Maria Horner, but at least I still have enough left to make something for me!

This fabric almost picked it's own pattern, in that I knew it needed to be something simple which would not break up the design too much. I made dress H from this book, Girl's Style Book (ISBN978-4-579-11181-7) which was incredibly easy to sew.

This pattern book is from MisforMake and has some lovely designs for dresses and tops,

I know that this dress has broken all the 'rules' for sewing for children, but I love the colours in this fabric.

I added grey ribbons to the dress, which are sewn exactly as in the pattern.

The back view shows some of the lining at the top. I fully lined the dress rather than use the recommended facings.

This Japanese Pattern Book also had a hat pattern (pattern K) it's quite different to the usual hat I make, and reminds me a bit of a chef's hat, though that absolutely is not the look I'm going for!

I will get my daughter to try it on when she gets home from preschool.

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