Buttons and Bobs

Another Stella Hoodie (Tilly and the Buttons pattern) I added three inches to the length. Sunhats using the pattern from Oliver and Schwinn . The first one - quack quack- was a breeze to make. The second - hearts - was a nightmare yet the materials were the same quality and the pattern was cut to the same size. Everything went wrong so I  finished it with extra tucks in the sewing and three broken needles in the bin! A quilted pocket for my mobile phone. I hardly ever use the phone but I love the pattern on this fabric. It was a fat quarter in a pack I was given. I'd like to find more. Another zipped purse. I ordered Heat and Bond fleece interfacing from the USA via Amazon. It comes in small packs.  Easy to use but expensive when considering I was only using it in order to use up scraps and there is a limit to how many zipped pouches anyone needs.  I ordered a multi pack of zips from China via Amazon. I'm pleased with my pack of 50...

I used the free pattern and tutorial from Oliver and Schwinn to make two reversible bucket sunhats. The hat above matches the tunic top made from the free Izzy pattern that will be linked on another post. I was pleased with the result at first but now I think I would like to tone down the colours. I bought the material that I used for the hat below on Birmingham market. Originally I was going to make another tunic top but when I pre-washed the fabric it creased heavily and frayed. I could not imagine having to continually press the garment after each wear. It has made a good hat though. Before sewing I I overlocked the edges of each piece so that there would be no fraying. If I had not got an overlocker I would have used a zigzag stitch around each edge before sewing the pieces together. I lined this hat with the same material.