Sewing - a new top

 My 3rd and 4th time attending Pauline Kiernan in Ballygarret Wexford made some interesting things.

A cotton skirt and top,

A quilted carrier bag and a puff-slieved cotton top.

Some pics of same:

This lady is an inside pocket

Artist 

This one was quite a challenge. Got the pattern from sewdirect. Downloaded and printed the 18 pages plus. I IDd the necessary pieces and after taping them together cut out the necessary ones. There were a lot of methods new to me so I learned a lot. Used my own little Singer for the buttonholes and it worked!! Yeah!!

Hand: spun, dyed, woven cap!

 I managed to use Madcap pattern to make a nice cap for my husband out of an old wooden jacket which had well woven fabric from Donegal:

Then I got a mind worm : could I make another cap from scratch i.e. from dyed fleece, hands-on and woven on a rigid heddle ?

I had to try.

Spinning, dying, weaving went well but then it cam to cutting out the pattern!!

Would all my work end up a a misshapen heap for loose fibres??

Decidec to apply thin fabric stabiliser (Vilene I believe) and machine sew around the pattern pieces and then zigzag beside the seam before cutting it out. Glad to say it worked!!

It is lined with a navy blue cotton.

The dyes used were acid Landscape dyes.

Very Mary Quand (for those who can remember that far back).

Here's buddy wearing one"

Some photos from the finer prep, dying, spinning, weaving for this cap:

The weft followed the same pattern as the warp in a plain weave.

The dyes used were Landscape Citrus,  Tanbark and Sky.