Goodbye Summer

Bring on the autumn crisp!

Teddie's wardrobe is already well in the works. I started off making a pair of HOSH pants by LouBee Clothing with a pair of jeans that have been loitering in my room for eternity (and I've since made three more pairs!) and a sweater that I drafted using the Darling Cardigan pattern by Owly Baby. I was actually very impressed with my sweater; I had no idea seemingly delicate cashmere could be cut up and not fall apart!

Can't get enough HOSHpants!

To help add to his fall wardrobe,
I am absolutely THRILLED to be participating in
Kids Clothing Week "Storybook"

Can you guess my personal theme for this challenge? I'm sure it will be a very popular one, 

but I just couldn't resist!

Earlier this summer I kept coming across KCW posts in all the sewing blogs and thought it was some super-secret-experts-by-invitation-only club or something. I was so jealous lol! So glad that is not the case. I can barely contain my excitement, I really want to start sewing pieces for it now. Im so impatient! Is that against KCW etiquette? Why must I wait!? I promise I'll still do more sewing on the actual week!
Sombody please enlighten me!

My Tools and Materials

The Tools

Three months ago when I first got the idea of learning to sew, I got a little overwhelmed looking online at all the supplies I would "need" and just how much sewing machines really cost! Luckily, i'm pretty thrifty (or maybe Im just cheap) and got all I really needed for about $25!

• Used Brother sewing machine $20
• WalMart "fabric" scissors $2.47
• Pins $2

That's it folks. These are my modest tools that make the magic happen! To any seasoned sewist I'm sure this looks rather silly and extremely meager... Believe me I would love to have fancy rotary cutters and maybe even a pin-cushion (lol!)  But to anybody who really wants to pick up sewing with very limited resources, these were all the tools I needed!
EDIT::  I forgot I also have a seam ripper. Very very handy! Im sure even experts have to use them once in a while! :-)

The Materials

I am much too frugal to buy fabrics from the fabric stores (even WalMart!).  So I make bi-weekly trips to a local Salvation Army with a spending limit of $15 which amounts to a BIG bag of interesting clothing of all types of fabrics to work with. I very rarely "plan" for what I'm looking for. I flip through as many sections as my babyboy will allow and buy whatever appeals to me at the moment. I do however, always buy a "crazy print" shirt if I can find one! You'd be surprised with the inspiration that can come just poking through donated rags! 

Sew cheap! :-P

Thank you so much for reading!

xoxo Goodnight

Hello and welcome

Good morning from Massachusetts! I'm Tabitha, the stay-at-home mother of my dear little boy Teddie. We just LOVE our beautiful hometown (hence the blog title!)

Early this summer, I was fed up trying to find clothes I loved for my little one. So my overly-confident mind told me "just MAKE his clothes!" and so I bought a $20 sewing machine from a virtual yard sale and dove right in and just fell in LOVE with making clothes, and seeing all the wonderful patterns and sewing blogs out there!

So I'd like to share with you my learning-to-sew journey here. I'm sure my friends will appreciate me plastering a blog with my sewing adventures rather than on facebook!

Thank you for reading, I'll leave you with a picture of my lovey wearing my very first creation:

                              

  ...I'll be sure to elaborate on my next post!