Sewing 101

First, let me thank you so much for your prayers!  This week is much better than last week.

The market is in full swing now, so I'm spending the majority of my time knitting.  However, my trusty ol' sewing maching that I blogged about here, was becoming much too finicky, and my list of sewing projects kept getting longer and longer.  The solution?  A new sewing machine!  Woohoo!

So over the last week I've really been enjoying my new machine.  The only problem is that what I know about sewing (especially sewing from a pattern) could fit in one paragraph, on one page, of a ginormous book.  So off to YouTube I went, in search of some good Sewing 101 classes.

I happened upon Georgia Leigh's Puking Pastilles channel/etsy shop, and instantly fell in love with her videos and patterns.  She assumes you know nothing (which I do), and starts at the VERY beginning (which I needed), then walks you through making her adorable Ankle Biters Toddler pants pattern, step by step.

So of course I had to buy the pattern.  Ruby's birthday is next week, and I thought it would be a perfect little gift for her!  So I printed the PDF pattern, ironed my fabric, and got to work!

Voila!  In less than 2 hours I had the cutest little pair of pants all done!  And Ruby loves them.  I couldn't wait for her birthday to try them on her, so she wore them today.  It was such a fun experience - so later this week I'm moving on to Georgia Leigh's Graduated Baby Block Pattern. :)  You can find all of her patterns here in her brand new Etsy shop!