What were your favorite makes in 2023?

[CCL]

I love starting the new year by thinking about my favorite sewing projects in the previous year.   So two questions for everyone:

• What was your favorite sewing project - just for the fun of sewing it - in 2023?
• What was your favorite thing you made last year - based on how lovely it turned out - in 2023!

[Ouryve]

On both counts, despite the sewing experience being blighted by my eyesight, it has to be my Liberty lawn Atlas blouse. I enjoy fiddly stuff and it suits my style.

[CCL]

Ooooh, I remember that one, loved the binding and the buttons - everything goes together so well on that garment!  Lovely stitching!  Nice make!

[Acorn]

My favourite was the very first thing I did last year - although I didn't produce an awful lot to choose from over the year.

I've used it a lot, and it is wearing very well.

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[Diane]

@Acorn I love this bag, i've must have missed the post first time round as i don't remember seeing it 

[Acorn]

Thank you!  It's a Lynette Andersen design, the cream panels are hand appliqué and embroidery on cotton velvet (possibly velveteen), and the grey is boiled wool.

I adapted it a bit - the pattern had a plain back, but I put a second appliqué panel onto it, and made the front panel all in one piece - it had a seam down the middle on the pattern.  The lining is plain pale blue cotton, and has a pocket and a key clip.  I was going to put a decorative button onto the closing flap, which has a magnetic closure on the underside, but I didn't get around to it.

[SewRuthieSews]

I made a lot of garments last year but have a few favourites for different reasons


https://ruthieksews1.blogspot.com/2023/06/oldest-ufo-finished-sophisticated.html
Jacket I cut out in 2008 and finally finished in 2023. This gave me a great deal of satisfaction. It fits well but I've not actually worn it yet.


https://ruthieksews1.blogspot.com/2023/09/cotton-floral-shirt.html
Cotton floral shirt with pockets. I've worn this a lot and love it.


https://ruthieksews1.blogspot.com/2023/02/denim-utility-gilet.html
Denim utility gilet. Really good for travel because of the many pockets.

All the garments I made for my friend C because I learned so much about fitting and because having clothes that fit did so much for her self confidence.
I just looked back and apparently I sewed for her - 4 t shirts, 2 skirt, 2 jackets, 1 cardigan, and 12 dresses (10 pictured)!

[Starryfish]

For sheer wearability Merchant and Mills Harlene dungarees. There was so much topstitching however.
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[CCL]

@Starryfish, @SewRuthieSews, @Diane , @Ouryve, and @Acorn - loving these - that gorgeous bag, the excellent precision sewing of the utility gilet, ufo jacket, blouse, dungarees!  Such different things and yet all such wonderful examples of craftpersonship!

I think the garment I was most happy with - for wearing and fun was my pinafore - and it wasn't even a planned garment - just something to use up some fabric I had bought for niece - but her tastes and mine are not in sync.  Next favorite would have to be the Watanabe Basic Black pinafore with the external darting.   

OOP S7372-pinafore

Sato Watanabe cord jumper

 But the most fun were the donkey and rabbit!!

donkey  Xanthe Designs

Bunny - Xanthe Designs

[Ouryve]

They are all lovely makes, @CCL.

[Gernella]

Helen's Closet, Blackwood Cardigan, so flipping easy.  I made five last year and just had a delivery for another one.

Not sure I like the colour of Helen's blaclwood.  So far I have a couple russet reds, a pale green, light blue,grey and next a cream. Last one was meant to be shorter this next will be.  I don't put the pockets on either

[toileandtrouble]

My favourite sew for last year was the doll's sports bag, just for fun.  [ You are not allowed to view attachments ]  
I don't think I sewed anything new, just a lot of repairs, alterations  and knitting.  Also curtains and a footstool recovered so not a lot of sewing there either.  Lost a lot of my sewing time to my student and I was very pleased with the way her blouse turned out. She also made two bags, designed from scratch, (by me) one with a waterproof lining and one with custom pockets for her daughter.  Those worked well too.
Have to make this year I get something done for me, I think.

[Tamnymore]

This thread makes me realise I'm not as good as cataloguing my makes as. I used to be. I need to get more organised.

My favourite makeof 2023 was my knock off of a Toast dress which I made by adapting a Simplicity pattern (can't remember which one now). It has a load of pintucks. The fabric is a particularly nice musard chambray with a good weight. I made another pintuck dress - the Style Arc Xanthe in a tartan - but I don't love it as much as the mustard dress.

[Flobear]

My two favourites completed in 2023** were the 1000 stars quilt and the Sparkling Stars quilt. They were large projects for an inexperienced quilter and I was very pleased with the results.

**It was started in early in 2022 so a bit of a marathon!

[CCL]

Wow!  Such great things - I love seeing the huge variety of what we make!   @Gernella - I love that sweater... I have been musing about making a "coatigan" type sweater for a while now and I am going to have to look up that pattern.   @toileandtrouble - oh so cute bag!  What are the dimensions - given it is a doll's bag?  @Tamnymore - Pintucks!  I love pintucks, but I confess, they do intimidate me.  Afraid I will go all wobbly with them.  I am impressed.  @Flobear - quilts!  I thought your Sparkling Stars quilt was seriously beautiful.   Off the top of my head, I don't remember your 1000 stars quilt, so I will have go look at your diary to see if I can find it!

Edited to Add:  Is this it, @Flobear ??

Done! I'm pleased with the result. At 57 ins square it's the biggest item I've quilted so far. 

It will hang outside the guest bedroom when I have made a hanger thingy for it.

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