What I'm Sewing

 Lately, I've been making rope baskets. Have you seen these? They are really so fun to make, and it's a quick and easy project to do, and you end up with lots of bowls. I'm finding that I use them for just about everything. Here's a few pictures of some I've made - 

The colored baskets have fabric strips wrapped around the rope, which is really braided clothesline rope, and the light colored ones have no fabric. I love the natural look of those plains ones. Click on the picture to make it bigger. 

Those are only a fraction of the bowls I've made, but I figured I'd gotten enough practice and it was time to make a BIG basket :) And here it is! 

If you compare the basket to my iron, you can see how big it is. 

The next thing I made was a 'bedding refresh' of my granddaughter's doll bed. It was a nice enough bed, but the bedding was awful. So, I made sheets (it didn't have sheets), pillows, a new canopy and blanket. The first picture is Before. 

My next sewing project is to make myself a pair of jeans. I have the fabric, the very detailed instructions and I'm almost ready to start those. I've make pants for myself before, from denim, but never a real pair of jeans. So, this will be new. I'm going to make a muslin first, to make sure it fits right and do all my adjustments on that, before I start to cut up my denim. Which is not cheap. 

What are you sewing? 

More later!

Karen