Liberty of London Sewing

In 2005 our family went to London, UK for Christmas.

We had a great time - attended a Christmas concert at St. Paul's and the Christmas Eve service at Westminster Abby. But one of my fondest memories was buying fabric at Liberty of London.

Over the years I have taken the fabric out and enjoyed looking at it and imagining what I would make.

Last week I decided to use three pieces to make a blouse for myself. I want to cut back on buying new clothes and either make clothes from my fabric stash or recycle/refashion things in my closet.

So... why a photo of thread?

I chose these colors to add decorative stitches to the blouse I made.

I took the photo and looked at it in black & white to figure out the intensity.

After that I used the yellow and fuchsia on the neckline and yoke. 

The pattern I used is on the shelf. I made a few changes to the yoke and sleeves.

I made the front yoke straight across to the armhole.

I shortened the sleeves to 3/4 length.

The front yoke and lining was one fabric. The back yoke and lining was a different one.

The sleeves and main front and back was a third fabric.

When I bought the fabric I was thinking quilting, not clothing.

I bought a meter of the lighter fabric and quarter meters of the yoke fabrics.

Front view above.

Back view below.

Decorate stitch around neckline and across the bottom of the yoke.

Up next - a dress for Ava.

I'm making a sleeveless version of the Georgia dress by VFT.

Ava likes sleeveless dresses. This one has buttons in the back.

The fabric is an undersea border fun fabric.

The light print will be the lining.

From the same fabric line I'm going to make Kenton a reversible short overall with fish 

on one side and submarines on the other.

Progress from Saturday and Sunday sewing.

This side looks cutest. It will be reversible but I'm going to promote this version.

The mystery of this quilt's history has been discovered.

As we are getting ready to move and going thru stored things we came across the box

that held this quilt when it came to our house.

I knew a cardboard box was not a good home for the quilt but didn't realize the quilt's history was written on the outside of the box. Now we know that the quilt was pieced by Ruth Jackson Tucker and hand quilted by Clara Jackson Cate and Fan Jackson Ford, my husband's mother and aunts. Not sure of the year.

It's about time for choir practice. See you next week.