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Life – Right Now…

Three out of four on the wall

The next few weeks are really busy in our house – two birthdays (exactly a week apart – well done small ones!), a party, two work deadlines (which are exciting but I’m in the thick of it all right now!), fencing, nudging the stove closer into existance before it gets to cold… as well as the usual orders going out, yarn being dyed, family life going on all around me, day to day stuff.

So if the blog is a bit quieter than usual, please don’t worry. I’ve lots of exciting things to show you when I bob back up again.

In the meantime I was inspired by this post by Happiness Comes In Little Bits

~ Eating Sprouts! The first of the season!
~ Drinking more Coke than I should.
~ Contemplating making a doorstop out of the dwindling fleece stash for our bedroom door.
~ Giddy thinking about birthday celebrations and the births that started them.
~ Watching Nigel Slater and Outnumbered on the lovely beeb.
~ Smiling at my toothy girl.
~ Wishing my evenings were a bit longer.
~ Sewing scarves, gloves, clothes…
~ Knitting hats. Lots and lots of hats.
~ Hoping that everything get finished in time.
~ Tearing up when I think about where I was a year ago.
~ Thinking that I really need to get that craft show application form sorted out.
~ Baking birthday cakes x2 (well I really need to get started on them soon!)
~ Loving sewing with fleece. And how quick the postal service is.
~ Grateful for the boiler we put in last year.
~ Ignoring the dust and the cobwebs and the fact that the chickens have broken out of the (admitedly shoddy) fenced in area. Again.
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Fleeces Trousers (though the weather is actually still lovely!)

Fleece Trousers!

September rolls around and I start making the clothes needed for autumn and winter. (March is the same when it comes to spring and summer wear.)

This year I took two of my favourite trouser patterns* and made a whole batch of fleece trousers for each child. Up until now I’ve only made fleece trousers when I’ve managed to get one of those large GAP fleece jumpers second hand, but this year I realised that thrifting fleece was a bit silly, given how much I was going to need. So I went to Pennine Outdoor and got myself a job lot in a ton of different colours.

Fleece – it turns out – is great to work with, and the trousers were sewn up really quickly. (No edges to finish, so the number of seams needed was dramatically reduced.) In the end I made 5 (!) pairs per child, and I’ve still enough fleece to make mittens, and possible a pram cozy (if I patchwork bits together.)

They won’t be as muck resistant as wool would be, but they’ll wash well and dry quickly and keep my children warm when it gets cold.

 

* The basic trouser pattern from Growing Up Sew Liberated (which I have messed about with, taking out the hip pockets and putting patch pockets in instead.) And the Big Butt Baby Pattern which I’m going to keep using it until all my babies are out of nappies.