Marzipan's Crafts: March 2021

I seem to be making about two things a week at the moment, so let's see what I can remember. I'm still doing the 52 week sewing challenge so this will be weeks 5 to 8.

Week 5 - Sew something for Storage

My daughter likes to bring her favourite cuddly toy everywhere, so we decided to make a little sling for her to carry it in so it doesn't get lost.

We made a mini mei-tai from The Art of Simple tutorial and it came out quite well. If I make it again, I think I will just use webbing or ribbon for the straps as sewing and turning out and topstitching took quite a lot of time.

I also made myself another top - this one was Hallå Stardust top (free pattern again!) which has some nice other colour blocking options but I made the plain version for now. It came out quite nicely.

Not to mention, another cuddly. This time it's a fish.

Week 6 - sew something with buttons or snaps

I actually had a pattern to test this month - exciting! It's a scarf/bib and it has snaps so I made it for the challenge too. It's not released yet but when it is I'll put a link in. It's from The Cajun Girl

And I made a pirate jumper too - this is the Altitude pattern from Peek-a-boo patterns.

Week 7 - sew something "green" or eco-friendly

I didn't do the weekly challenge as I couldn't think of anything I could easily make that we would actually use. So instead I made some leggings (Made by Jack's Mum lightning leggings) and a giant bean bag ball (Ellie & Mac Stuffy Ball) to store all the cuddly toys in (you could argue that this prevents me throwing all the cuddly toys in the bin! Not sure)

Oh I almost forgot - I made a little twirly skirt out of a glittery remnant that I had. She didn't believe I'd made it at first because it has glitter on it.

Week 8 - sew something that's not fabric

I was planning to make something out of some Capri-sun packets for this, but as it happened I was busy with other things.

I do a monthly handmade gift swap (The Great Crafting Gift Swap on Facebook) so I made an infinity pocket scarf for that - The Patterns for Pirates one which I did before Christmas. I suppose a zip for the pocket is kind of not fabric?