A Joni filled January

Monthly Roundup - Jan 2019

I'll aim to stick to this format every month as a quick round up of the month, keeping reasonably succint with the plan to expand in other blog posts on the exciting bits.

Rambling Overview

It's been a pretty crazy month here to kickstart the year.  I started this blog, I finally had the confidence I needed to cut into jersey and actually sew it which was a huge deal for me.  I got kind of excited and have now made a whole bunch of tshirts, sweatshirts and skirts... along with a handful of Joni versions.  I pondeered what a collection of Joni's would be... a jubilation? A jubilation of Jonis?  Yes, let's go with that.  I failed on my batch sewing front, made some good progress on my Make Nine and traced and prepped for some exciting projects in Feb.  Also, I definitely enjoyed my first IG story expereince so I might be popping nito stories to talk sewing more often this year.

Makes

3 x Frankie Tees (a green striped, a light grey, a glasses print)

3 x Frankie Sweaters (a dino french terry, a shark french terry, a grey embossed)

3 x Joni dresses (white and black polka, bright teal wiggle style and plain red)

2 x Joni tops (crop layer in minto dodos and light teal and pink flower/seed print)

2 xSew Many Dresses Sew Little Time dresses finished from batch sewing adventures (gingham, animal map print)

1 x tube skirt (bee print stretch velvet!)

1 x Bibi (blue textured ponte)

Skills

Jersey jersey jersey

PHoto taking (haha just kidd

Fabrics

Erm... I am ambarrassed.  Don't look.  The sales were strong and my will was not 

Had a bit of a John Lewis haul as they had quite a lot in the clearance

2m grey swan cotton print

1m floral viscose

1m red star needlecord

2m black star needlecord

The Remnant House Glasgow in their £1.99pm sale!)

2m red jersey

2m black jersey

2m 'wine' jersey

Stof and Stil

2m bright teal ribbed jersey

0.5m bee print jersey

0.5m bright teal active wear

2m forest print viscose

Sewisfaction

0.5m bee print stretch velvet

remnant black stretch velvet

1m textured blue ponte

Scarborough

Sewing Centre - 2m bottle green Stof cotton

Boyes - 2m red/blue/white shirting

Loubodu Fabrics

1,5m teal sweatshirting

1.5m navy floral abstract jersey

1m light teal and pink seed/floral jersey 

1m panda jersey!

1m flower fairies jersey

1m navy viscose floral jersey

0.5m each of some jersey for kid clothes

Minerva Crafts

1m sunglasses jersey

1m polka dot jersey

Next months list here will be much much shorter.  Promise (doublt promise Mum if you are reading this).  Sales got me hard this month.

Patterns    

I bought a ew patterns this month to up my sewing skills.

New Look 6301 - Jersey Wrap Dress

Butterick 6169 - Moto Jacket

Butterick 5926 - Stretch Blazer

Butterick 6285 - Gertie Knit Wrap Top

Butterick 6327 - Semi Tapered Trousers

All of these are in plans for next few months

Other

I bought a new sewing machine! And reorganised my sewing room - would you be interested in a tour?