My Family, Repurposed!

I am learning that sewing is much like guitar playing. You just have to feel it. So when I saw an XL sized button down shirt in cute cotton fabric at Goodwill the other day, I felt the cute floral tank top that was living inside. A few snips and stitches, and here it is.

Unfortunately, also like my guitar playing, I'm afraid I will always be mediocre and sloppy when it comes to sewing. I get in a hurry, I don't always finish my seams, I am absolutely terrified of patterns.... I never learned to read music so my music skills are limited. I'm too afraid to learn to use a pattern, so my sewing skills are destined to be the same way.

But on the same trip to Goodwill I found a brown sweater, inside which I could feel the souls of a new pair of pants:

...And a matching dress:

Okay, sewing for Anja would be a lot cooller if she would actually wear what I made her. I had to bribe her just to put this dress on so I could take a picture of it.... and as you can see, she is actively taking it off as I snapped this one and only photo of it.

Another matchy-matchy project features a pair of brown linen pants for G:

(Here is the outfit that Anja chose to wear INSTEAD of the matching dress I made for her):

Later, we added some argyle socks.

Here Greta is modeling both things. Anja's dress and her pants. Good old Greta.

Martin didn't get anything out of this week's sewing extravaganza. I guess I could offer him the discarded sleeves from the button down, but I'm not sure he has any accessories that would go well with them. Or I could take the neck of the sweater and make it into a funny hat! Hmmm....