Sew Saturday

Yup....it's that time again!

I've committed myself to sewing a little each Saturday.  I'm thankful for a space to be able to do something I enjoy.  No, I'm not a professional.  I'm actually still learning by teaching myself.  Today's project is a cardi-wrap by Simplicity.

I found some cream colored knit fabric in my stash that I could use to make this SewSimple project.  I'm not really fond of the color, but at least it will be wearable ;-).  For the average sewing this project would probably only take and hour and a half, but since I'm a newbie and a must read the instructions type girl it will take me about 3 hours to complete, not including cutting time.  Today I decided to use my rotary cutter to cut my fabric and saved considerable time since I didn't have to pin the pattern to the fabric first.  I used my home-made pattern weights.

Front sides (cut 2)

Back and sleeve

 

I started sewing about 7pm and stopped at 8:30pm.  I have the back and front sides sewn together and serged and only need to sew the sleeves on and hem the edges.  Hopefully I'll get that completed tomorrow.  However before I hem I'll need to decide if I want to cut the front drapes down by several inches.  They are really long compared to the pattern photo, but I think I'll leave the length so that I can wear it multiple ways like YouTuber Naptural85 in the video below.

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