I've finished DH's short sleeved shirt now that summer has finished.  It hasn't taken me that long it's just that I started with a wearable (not) toile some time ago and having altered the pattern to include a back yoke found that I couldn't sew in the sleeves very well and it turned out too small.  I realised that I had forgotten a couple of seam allowances in my alterations.  I put it to one side and it took a while to get going again.
Fabric is a beautiful quality Italian shirting that I got from Croft Mill, not that he would notice if I made it out of a bin bag, but it was lovely fabric for me to sew.  I've never made a man's shirt before.  The fabric actually has a salmon coloured vertical stripe.

As the title says.  If you are a kindle user and have Craftsy classes you will have been frustrated, like me, when they ceased to be able to be viewed on a kindle.  I have just discovered by chance that I am once again able to view the videos.  I wish I had found out a couple of days ago as I was nipping between the computer in the office and my sewing room for Kenneth King's instructions for a zip fly on jeans.  It's so much easier to have it right by the sewing machine.

How generous are Style Arc patterns for ease.  I want to get a couple and my measurements are pretty much exactly a 10 on their size chart.  I want a loose fitting shirt (bordering on oversize) which the pattern is supposed to be.

I never trace patterns and once I've determined the size I need to cut I always cut the pattern.  Mostly I sew for myself and know what's right.
But I decided to make DH  a shirt.  I measured one that he wears very carefully and decided to cut the pattern to the medium size.  At the first try on it wasn't as roomy as I had anticipated.  By the second try on I swear that it was shrinking.  I finished it this morning apart from buttons and buttonholes and comparing it with his shirt nearly 4" seems to have vanished.
Fortunately it was only intended as a wearable toile.
So I had to root around in the kitchen bin to retrieve the bits of tissue I'd cut off the pattern and have spent a tedious hour with glue stick and tissue adding the cut off bits back on to the pattern pieces.
Once I've got the pattern right I will recut the pieces in new tissue or perhaps I should leave them as they are so that the adhering bits of black bean sauce forever remind me of my folly.

I've finally got one done. 
For years I have hated rtw bras and just cannot find one that is comfortable to wear.  I find that M & S ones seem to have very short straps these days which pulls them up at the back.   I don't have a large bust and do not need and cannot bear underwires.   One of my bugbears too is that non wired bras mainly only come in black, white and grotty beige (it's a bit better now but not a lot)

I have been promising myself a go at making a bra for ages and a while back downloaded the Cloth Habit Watson bra pattern.  I've fiddled about on and off with some bits of jersey to try and determine the right cup size and as I was so confused about fabrics I got a bra toile pack with the right fabrics and findings.  Anyway, I had a go this morning (not the long line version) - I didn't fuss too much about the finish as I had no idea whether or not it would anywhere near fit BUT IT DOES!!  I can't believe how comfortable it is - I tried it on to see how the fit was and am still wearing it.

The elastics in the toile pack were a bit wide (16mm for straps and round the bottom) and I didn't really know how to stitch them on.  There was also a fold over elastic for the top of the cups which made it a bit bulky for attaching the straps.  However it didn't stop me being able to put the thing together. 

The only  issue I have is some minor vertical wrinkles from the bust point up to the strap but I think I can get rid of those by taking off 1/4" at the centre front edge of each cup and 1/4" off the top of the cradle side seam.  I will most definitely be giving this a go in some proper fabric, I will probably start with a kit again to have all the right bits.

I finished piecing my log cabin quilt back in February.  I did post a picture on Reddit when it was our temporary home but thought I would put one on here.  I hadn't intended to lose momentum but had to clear my sewing room for my niece to stay over lambing so it got put in the cupboard but it's now out, basted and ready to quilt.

My original thoughts were for darker purples  with yellow stars but then I found the fabric (pictured below) and 'had' to have it for the stars so that changed all the rest apart from the dark one in the middle of the blocks. I can see how one acquires a stash as I now have quite a bit of purple fabric and some nice yellow too.

I'm going to keep the quilting lines simple (diagonals) and I've got a variegated purple thread.
I could be some time.

I think I mentioned elsewhere that my Pfaff 1/4" foot does a very accurate scant 1/4" seam.
This is all the trimmings I had from 32 four patches for the mystery quilt - they are all 4 1/2" square.

I've made myself sit down this morning and finish off this cushion cover - still need a cushion pad for it.
Ages ago I came across the image of the honeybee queen on the comb surrounded by her court and just loved it.  I decided to use it + a couple more as an exercise in printing images onto fabric which I hadn't done before.  It was done with a transfer paper but actually leaves the image fabric rather stiff so I would need to use something else if I wanted to put images on a quilt (which I did but that moment has passed).

It's been coming & going in and out of the cupboard for about a year and I have liked it less each time (not the original image, just the whole thing).  Final straw was the completely wrong choice of fabric for the binding but I really couldn't be bothered taking it off and finding something else.  It's only going to sit on the sofa bed in the spare / sewing room.