Pop On Over

The solution to rebounding from an epic sewing fail?  Make something for a baby.

Or several somethings.

I made up a few popover dresses this weekend, which is a fabulous, quick and easy pattern from Oliver and S.  I had fun sorting through my stash of small fabric scraps and leftover trims.  I hang on to so many fabric scraps-- pieces that are too small to make anything pour moi but too big to get rid off.  The first two dresses are for a friend's baby who turned one this weekend.  The sizing on the free pattern wasn't small enough so I shrunk it down ten percent on a copier.  It looks right to me.

   

This one was made for a coworker who is having a shower this week.  I shrunk the pattern down again.  I used fabric from an old top I'd been saving.  I actually never wore the top but couldn't part with it because I loved the print so much.   Which got me thinking-- I really, really love this print.  But will my coworker?  When you make things for other people, do you ever wonder if they will like it as much as you do?  I had to ask myself if I was making something because I thought the recipient would like it, or if it was simply because I liked it.  I guess that's what happens when you sew for others.  You run the risk of making something not quite their style because of your own preferences.

Anyway, in the end I decided it didn't matter.  And I'm sure she'll like it.  I mean, who doesn't love bobble trim? ;)

Happy sewing, friends.