Miscellaneous September.... leggings, Star Wars shirt, piano book bag, oven mitts...

Fall has begun with school schedules and music lessons up and running.  It has been great to have a more structured routine... for the most part.  It sure makes lazy Saturdays seem like a treat.  :)  In the sewing world, I am back to part-time work at the costume shop working on a fun show with projects that have been amazingly smooth and without difficulty or drama.  At home, then, I have just been puttering.  I've been tackling little projects I've been meaning to do or that have popped up, all of which can be started and finished in a day or two.  They're nothing fancy or even all that exciting so I'm going to squeeze them all in one post just for the sake of cataloging them as finished projects.

First up was a batch of leggings.  Both girls wear leggings almost daily so we go through them pretty quickly.  I definitely buy store bought leggings, but this year I thought I'd make some too.  The white ones are for church to be fake tights since neither girls can stand the top part of tights anymore.

The second project was rescuing an adult sized Star Wars shirt from the donation pile.  Leah bought it for Keith last year for his birthday but I forgot to check the tag - it was 100% polyester fabric.  That's a no-go for Keith so the shirt wasn't getting much wear and Leah was sad to see it being neglected.  So, it was granted a second life as a child's size raglan shirt.  It was a pretty smooth project.

The stripe shirt was a wearable mockup of the raglan pattern to make sure it was going to fit before cutting up the Star Wars shirt.

We have a beginner piano student in the house so I couldn't resist a little bag to carry her piano books on Thursday afternoons.  I cut it too close and it could have been made a little wider but as it only carries two little books it'll do.

Last but not least, I finally used up a bit of fun baking themed print I've had in my stash for a while.  I tried Insulbright batting (two layers per each side of the mitt) and it seems to be working great.  I made two mitts, using my old nasty dirty ones for a template, and then used up the rest of the Insulbright to get a rectangular hotpad and then a little mug rug.  The excess worked out just right that I used up all the fabric and all the Insulbright with very little waste.  They all went straight into the kitchen drawer to be used and I immediately threw in the trash two old mitts and four hotpads that had lived a long and dirty life.

That is what has been keeping me busy in September!  I am in the planning stages of a big quilt project and also brainstorming a new crochet project so I'm looking forward to starting those projects.