PRP Week 3: Glitter! What? Project Run & Play is over, you say? Yeah. Well maybe next week I'll even start prepping for Kids Clothes Week, February 2016.
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PRP Week 3: Ocean Sparkles
PRP Week 3: Glitter! What? Project Run & Play is over, you say? Yeah. Well maybe next week I'll even start prepping for Kids Clothes Week, February 2016.
PRP Week 2: A Study in Scarlet* (Buttonholes)
The game is on, Mrs. Hudson! I may no longer be a contestant but I was too deep in my mind palace to stay away from cosplay inspired clothes for Week 2. This is in my wheelhouse. It was elementary, my dear Project Run & Play readers.
*And by
"scarlet," I mean burgundy.
PRP Herringbone Rejects
As a contestant on Project Run & Play Season 11, I confess I struggled this first week. I found the "Nothing But Knits" prompt to be so broad that I had trouble narrowing down a look. In the end I love where I landed -- completely self-drafted, constructed of delicate knits, and very much The Peanut's style. But it took sewing and setting aside five (5!) other garments to get there. Let's have a look at those today.
PRP Week 1: Plum Perfect!
Eeeks! It's here! It's time! PRP waits for no sewer regardless of how many days of leave Mid-Atlantic schools grant amid the Great Blizzard of 2016. (Seven. Seven plus a two-hour delay. Seriously). But! That doesn't matter because I am a contestant for Season 11, Project Run & Play! Read on, learn more, and then GO VOTE!
Project Run & Play Over Her Shoulder
Every good collection has at least one accessory -- for Project Run & Play it's The Reversible Sling Bag from Sugar Bee Crafts.
Forget Me (K)not, Project Run & Play
The March Challenge for Project Run & Play stumped me. I wasn't sure where to take this one. The truth is I've sewn too many dresses and skirts of late; we needed more everyday clothes. And so, at the very last minute -- after briefly debating a swimsuit -- I decided to go full-casual in all knit.
Project Run & Play: Mademoiselle February
Here at The Inspired Wren chateau we've been discussing a trip to Paris. How timely that the February challenge for Project Run & Play is the Mademoiselle Muscle Tee by Susan from Living with Punks.
The Project Run & Play Bubble
[Runs in, throws arms up in the air...] WAIT! I'm here! Don't let January slip away yet! My small Holiday blogging break that I hoped would be barely noticeable kinda grew into a large, obvious break thanks to inertia: a body in motion stays in motion, and this body at rest will definitely STAY at rest unless external forces act upon it. As always the best external force to push me into action is a good challenge. I present to you: Project Run & Play, January!
Spring Mini-Collection Mix & Match
Project Run and Play, Season 9 has come to a close. I had a great time designing and sewing (along) toward specific challenges. There is something wonderful about defined limits on a project that makes my creativity stretch. I knew in advance I wanted the pieces I produced for PRP to mix and match (and be truly wearable), so I've been referring to it as a mini-collection. Five looks, four challenges. Casual to formal-dressy.
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| Project Run & Play, Season 9 Mini-Collection -- Spring Green |
Signature Style
It's the final week of Project Run and Play. I started this blog so I could play along with PRP. And now it's Signature Style Week. In all the seasons I've been reading along, I've been thinking about this question. So I started this season with a list to define my signature:
- It has clean lines and few embellishments. It's the subtle details that make it special. And hopefully it's impeccably finished.
- It is easy to wear for everyday life. It’s not special occasion, it’s not for one-time use.
- It’s not twee. It may be youthful, but it's not sentimentally cute.
- It’s feminine, but not girly. There’s not a ruffle, nor any pink, in sight. Perfect for The Peanut’s personality and you can tell because she lights up when she wears it. And that’s my ultimate goal.
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Kids Clothes Week, Days 5-7
Days 5-7? HA! I was going strong. I was sewing AND blogging. Daily. And then...it hit. Just when The Peanut had powered through a week of being under the weather, and after seemingly five minutes of health, a 24-hour stomach bug entered our house and decided to stay for 72 hours (24 hours x 3 people = 72 hours of misery). We are on the other side now (oh, Dear Lord, please!). We are all recuperating and the house is fully disinfected (I hope). Sewing should resume later today.
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| Coat in progress. |
Before I realized the 24-hour bug would be jumping to my stomach immediately after The Peanut's I managed to sneak a little sewing in toward Project Run and Play Week 4.
Kids Clothes Week, Day 4
It Kids Clothes Week! In honor of KCW, and for just this week only, I will attempt to blog daily and document all sewing [through mostly cell-phone pics].
Kids Clothes Week: Sew clothes for your kids. One hour a day. Each day for seven days.
This afternoon I was able to complete an entire pair of cropped jeans for Project Run and Play. It helped that I had already cut them out on Day 2.
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| How fabulous is that green pocket-lining and top-stitching? Bonus view of my week old, sewing machine induced, thumb blood blister. |
Designing for Easter
Finally! Done. And photographed. Project Run & Play Week #3, Design My Own Fabric:
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| She really wanted this week's photo-session chocolate and was willing to be posed like a delicate lady in order to get it. |
Project Run & Play Week #3, Design Your Own Fabric Challenge: Print, dye, color, paint, stencil or whatever else you can think of to design a fabric that is all you and then use that material to create an outfit!
Kids Clothes Week, Day 2
It Kids Clothes Week! In honor of KCW, and for just this week only, I will attempt to blog daily and document all sewing [through mostly cell-phone pics].
Kids Clothes Week: Day 1
It Kids Clothes Week! In honor of KCW, and for just this week only, I will attempt to blog daily and document all sewing [through mostly cell-phone pics].
Sew clothes for your kids. One hour a day. Each day for seven days.
Today I was able to sew for about an hour and half. I am still sewing along with Project Run and Play, and I'm still running a couple of days off schedule (thanks to a couple of sick and snow days between Weeks 1 & 2). This means I'm still sewing for Week 3.
We'll Spring Break in France, s'il vous plaît
Today is a special off-schedule post so that I can share my Project Run & Play Week #2, Spring Break Challenge solution. I so wanted to get this posted on Monday, but it snowed (again!) on Sunday (March 30th! Why?!). So I gave myself grace, and time to find some sunlight for photos, and pushed this back until now.
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| Strolling on the Seine? Or heading for the gangway on the cruise ship? |
Project Run & Play Week #2, Spring Break Challenge: Design an outfit inspired by your favorite vacation spot (or day-dreaming vacation spot).
Elephant Legs? Put Me in the Zoo!
I was so excited to start blogging in part so I could officially sew a long with Project Run & Play. Season 9 is upon us and I was raring to go. And then they announced the challenges. I'm so very happy that I'm not a formal contestant because the Week 1 challenge stumped me right out of the gate. (I hate to jinx myself now by saying I had clear ideas for the remaining challenges early on, so I won't. But I did.)
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| Piggie, Gerald, elephant legs, an ice-cream cone, and a tribute to Robert Lopshire, too! |
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