Small Human Clothes - Update

The rate of production from the sewing machines that occupy table space beside F's laptop and my day bed has been fairly high lately.  You got a bit of an update around Western Easter because F had been making those bags with rabbit ears on them.

Since then it has been more small human clothes.  Over the years small human clothes from here have always been feminine, bright, sparkly, frilly, flowery, flouncy, frou-frou (Panagiota's word - we think it means frills), but since F2 joined the F family, F has found a whole new inspiration.  I secretly think she always wanted to make little boy clothes as the patterns were already here, and out came all the drill and denim and checks and tweeds and ....

Why do boy humans get plain and earthy and hard wearing and practical clothes ........ with pockets?

Pockets are useful.  I don't have pockets in my suit, but I would find a use for them if I did.  Mr B told me that Kanga's have pockets, and they put their baby roos in them.

F must have really annoyed  the neighbours downstairs last weekend because there was a lot of hammering involved in getting all the press-studs and rivets installed on the overalls.

Evidence suggests she is in love with dark green cotton drill - her own gardening overalls are well worn dark green drill with lots of pockets, and patches where holes started to appear.  I didn't think she would wear them here in Piraeus (they are hardly an urban fashion item), but they still make regular appearances and she even wears them over her swimming cozzy when she goes to the beach to go for a swim because she reckons they provide maximum protection against the sun for the short journey across the road, and are easy to climb out of and back into.

This week it is more waistcoats and then we are going to make a clowning dress for Panagiota.  She brought over some pink and orange (eyeball searing) material and I helped measure her up for the dress.  She's not much bigger than a small human and F is digging around in the child-sized-patterns box for some suitable shapes of tissue paper.

I love tissue paper.  It is by far the very best bit of sewing when all the tissue paper comes out and gets shifted around on the material on the floor.  I have had to learn though that it is not good for my relationship with F to start tearing it up.  That does not end well......

There is still no shortage of frou frou 

I also supervised a patchwork quilt for the shop girl.  Her baby is due next month. She always comes out to play with me whenever we stop by the shop and F makes me wait outside.

I forgot to mention F even has a label -

She came up with that name to represent clothes that are made out of remnants and offcuts and re-covered/re-purposed bits of material, buttons and zips rescued from other clothes that were on their way out.  Not everything is ResQ'd but all the small human clothes are from remnants and offcuts, and often the buttons don't match properly.

One poor little waistcoat really earned its badge by having three different colours of lining, one of its facings patched together out of the last knockings of the offcuts, and its pocket welts cut on the bias because there really was no other fabric left to make them out of.  F said it was nice wool/silk blend fabric that really was too precious to waste unnecessarily and I vouch that nothing was wasted.  The teeny tiny offcuts are going into my next rat.