It's #NeedleWorkMonday!

This past week, my oldest two daughters and I have been sewing up some testers for our State Fair projects.

We wanted to try out the patterns, the fit, etc, before cutting into our official project fabrics.

Hippiedaughter1 started with this sweet twirly skirt. She picked out cotton woven fabrics from my basement stash. She calls it her "picnic skirt", since its strawberries and ants on table cloth checkers. The waist band is made with cotton/lycra knit, which is 95% cotton, 5% lycra/spandex. It has great stretch and rebound!
This pattern is called the Everyday Play Skirt from Little Lizard King.

Hippiedaughter2 started with this cute handkerchief hem, razor back tank top. This is a women's XXS pattern. We discovered that its still a bit big on her, too loose in the bodice. And the handkerchief style hem is not the easiest for a 7yr old to hem. Since this was made from cotton knit, we left the bottom edge raw (unfinished/unhemmed), as knit will not fray. However this does not look as nice to the judges. So we will try a different hem style on her final piece.
This practice fabric also came from my basement fabric stash.
This pattern is the Free Spirit Tank from Patterns For Pirates.

I tried out a new pattern myself out of some special fabric!

I have been hoarding 2 yards of this sweet farm cotton woven print for YEARS!
About 9 years ago, I went with my parents to help minimize (aka throw out a bunch of really oooooollllldddd crap) my grandparents house so it could be put on the market. They moved near to all of us kids shortly after.
During the purge, grandma granted me full access to claim any of her fabric. Boy did she have a BUNCH!

This was one of the prints I brought home. The strawberry print Hippiedaughter1 used, I believe came from there too.
Im not sure how old the fabric is, but likely 15-25 years old.

I stumbled upon this sweet pattern from Twig and Tale, and knew this farm print would be perfect for it!

And of course, my mini model loves her job, as always! Such a ham!

Thank you for stopping by for #NeedleWorkMonday!