Literary Sewing Circle: a Project Round Up!

 

We had many fun projects shared for this round, inspired by Susin Nielsen's Snap! 

I'll start with a few members of PatternReview who read and sewed along. 

DT Sewing Stories decided to make a bucket hat, inspired by the possible need to hide your face when having coffee with a disgraced friend 😆She used the Merchant & Mills free pattern for this one, and incorporated a lot of scraps to make it. 

She also made a blouse by mashing up two older shirts, also inspired by Parker's upcycling habits, using McCalls 7351 as a base. 

Silverdell used a fabric inspired by tea towels, in a nod to Parker's upcycling, to make a pretty blouse from a pattern in a Japanese sewing book. 

MsIngie made a pair of denim overalls using McCalls 8162, inspired by Parker's boss' outfit near the end of the book. 

SewLSC made Vogue 1901 in Ankara, inspired by Parker's sundress at the end of the book, with its red and yellow floral design.  

Kittykate went full on Parker and actually made tea towels... to use as tea towels 😉

Elsewhere, Sew.Focused used some upcycling magic to overdye a thrifted linen shirt from sickly pink to a rich blue, with a few small alterations to improve the fit as well. Parker's influence once again! 

Jan on Instagram upcycled a vintage nightgown into a pretty blouse, inspired by Parker's sewing habits. 

Sara made the Montrose top by Cashmerette, and says: 

The inspiration  was firstly floral to represent Frances's love of gardens although my fabrics are not an explosion of colour as France's garden was described,.  It does still represent a love of floral.   Secondly,  Parker was a creative soul who hand sewed clothes, and the  colour blocking from fabric I already had represented Parker's approach to clothes, using different fabrics,  tea towels for example.   The fabrics in my shirt were all from my stash, so I 'made do'.    Finally three stripes which are a nod to Geraint and his wardrobe of Addidas track pants, owning at least three pairs in different colours.  There were sixteen references to Geraint's track pants in the book, which to me indicates its importance  in character development.  I don't think I shall ever look at Addidas track pants again without thinking of Geraint and maybe cringing just a little!!    

And of course my own project, which was also inspired by Frances -- I made the Norma Blouse by FibreMood, in a fabric that reflects Frances' time in the pool. 

And now for our Prize Winners! We had two sponsors for this round: BF Patterns and Beaton Linen. Random number generator was used to pick our two winners. 

The winner of one PDF pattern from Beaton Linen is:

Sara for her Montrose Top!

The winner of one PDF pattern from BF Patterns is:

DT Sewing Stories for upcycled blouse & bucket hat!

Thanks to everyone for a fun round, and for reading and sewing along. Look forward to this September for our next group read!