Showing posts with label Sew Chic Kids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sew Chic Kids. Show all posts

Sew Chic Bubble Guppies


What happens when you combine my love of sewing chic, clean-line clothing with The Peanut's choice in fabrics? Chic Bubble Guppies, of course!

Sew Chic Kids Striped Blouse

Classic striped blouse sewn from Sew Chic Kids | The Inspired Wren

During Kids Clothes Week I sewed up this "Fourth of July and beyond" blouse using patriotic red and white stripes in a pattern from a Japanese sewing book. Of course. ...*shrug*

Happy Homemade Sew-Along Hoodie

When Meg of Elsie Marley and Cherie of You & Mie announced a sew-along for the Pull Over Parka (Hoodie) from Happy Homemade: Sew Chic Kids I was excited! I have this book! I've done this pattern! I was in!

I went out, got the fabrics, threw them in the washing machine, and pulled out the pattern to see if I needed to trace a bigger size (I didn't) or if I could use the one I traced in the fall (I could). And I was going to stop there. I was. But I was excited.

Sewing from Happy Homemade, Volume 2: Sew Chic Kids -- The Pull Over Parka (Pattern S) in Knit | The Inspired Wren
Don't worry she still has arms in real life. The hoodie does too.


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.

Mix and match children's separates sewn as solution to Project Run & Play Season 9's Week 2 "Spring Break" Challenge. | The Inspired Wren
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.)

An Elephant & Piggie outfit sewn as a solution to Project Run & Play Season 9, Week 1's Zoo challenge. | The Inspired Wren
Piggie, Gerald, elephant legs, an ice-cream cone, and a tribute to Robert Lopshire, too!