We picked Anais and Roman up early this morning.
This year World Book Day is on Thursday March 5th. That means there is only two full weekends left before World Book Day - we are busy next weekend and the weekend after is the weekend before Anais goes away with school so we thought we would have a go at making Roman's outfit today.
The theme at Roman's school this year is "101 Dalmations" - Roman wanted to go as a dalmation dog, Pongo. We could have sent him in with black jeans with a white t-shirt with painted black spots on. I had some old Primark pj's though that were dalmation spotty and I thought as I am learning to use the sewing machine I could have a go at making him a costume..................
It wasn't as easy as I thought though.....................
First I cut down each side of the trousers, zig zagged the sides together and then stitched up the sides. I forgot though that hips are wider than legs so he could only just pull them up and they were TIGHT, ooooops. I unpicked them and Mark made two triangles to go in each side to make them wider.
This year World Book Day is on Thursday March 5th. That means there is only two full weekends left before World Book Day - we are busy next weekend and the weekend after is the weekend before Anais goes away with school so we thought we would have a go at making Roman's outfit today.
The theme at Roman's school this year is "101 Dalmations" - Roman wanted to go as a dalmation dog, Pongo. We could have sent him in with black jeans with a white t-shirt with painted black spots on. I had some old Primark pj's though that were dalmation spotty and I thought as I am learning to use the sewing machine I could have a go at making him a costume..................
It wasn't as easy as I thought though.....................
First I cut down each side of the trousers, zig zagged the sides together and then stitched up the sides. I forgot though that hips are wider than legs so he could only just pull them up and they were TIGHT, ooooops. I unpicked them and Mark made two triangles to go in each side to make them wider.
I used some of the original elastic wasitband to attach to the waist to pull it in and make it snug. I pulled the elastic too tight though and it wasn't stretchy at all, arrrgh! Mark unpicked it and came to the rescue again, he inserted the elastic INSIDE the waistband instead of how I sewed straight through it.
I replaced the pink buttons with black buttons and went over the pink piping with an Ikea black fabric marker. From this.................
to this...............
I turned the bottoms up to a more suitable length and turned the sleeves up too.
The only problem then was that the top was still baggy. I got a white hair bobble and grabbed the excess fabric at the back and tied it with the hair bobble to make a "tail".
Roman loves it and hasn't taken it off all night! I am feeling pretty pleased with myself (its not "brilliant" but hey this time a month ago I didn't even know how to thread a machine, let alone use one!) and thanks to Mark for rescuing it on the two occasions I was ready to give up!
So on World Book Day this year Roman is going to be dressing up as Pongo!
So on World Book Day this year Roman is going to be dressing up as Pongo!
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Anais did her history homework which was to find out about the slave trade.
I asked Anais if she would like to cook tea and she said yes. Here it is, pasta bake and garlic bread, very nice too thanks Anais! xx
I asked Anais if she would like to cook tea and she said yes. Here it is, pasta bake and garlic bread, very nice too thanks Anais! xx
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