Snowday Sewing Projects, Updated 12/28/14

I have been a little obsessed with looking at layered clothing on Pinterest....I should be obsessed with my Christmas knitting since Christmas is next week....but I used a coupon to get this amazing fabric from JoAnn's for 60% off, with free shipping!

I bought two yards and thought I would make a jacket but the back side is slightly ribbed and polyester.....eeeew, a winter full of sleeves getting stuck.  So I am going to fall to one old standby, a simple wrap poncho.  I have made a few of these out of medium weight knits and wear them a lot.  This fabric is soft and has a nice drape while being winter ready.  

There is my daughter wearing one of them.  Super comfy, and very much inspired by Alabama Chanin, I have three and they are wardrobe staples.

For the rest I am going to make a top I saw on Pinterest,  basically a long tube with armholes that can be worn a bunch of different ways....I am going to adapt it to an a-line asymmetrically hemmed dress.  

I have fabric, I have notes, needles, and thread.  Beads if I feel like it, not to mention all of the things I already own that I know will go....

But back to knitting.......until that elusive magical wonderful thing known as a Snowday!

A favorite dress, I used this to make the pattern. I laid it out on muslin and traced it out, leaving out the sleeves and extending the neck to make a modified funnel neck.

                                    "Are you sure you know what you are doing?"

Working so hard I broke a needle in half.....

Finished!  One lagenlook inspired, very warm, soft, and cozy

quilted tunic.

Thus was a super easy project. I sewed the side seams up from the bottom, used the x stitch on the front of the arm hole, continued sewing up to the neck, felled the seam on the outside going back down, x-stitched the back of the arm hole, continued with felled seam to the hem.  the side seams, the hem, and the hem on the neck are all a simple running stitch. I used heavy duty hand quilting thread.  This makes very strong seams that hold up well, felled seams add a nice sense of structure.