A white woman (me) with red hair pulled back and blue framed cat’s eye glasses takes a selfie in a bathroom mirror. She is wearing a handmade short wrap apron dress made from gray cotton canvas fabric with big black polka dots interspersed with black cat faces. Some of the black cats are wearing sparkly silver cat’s eye glasses. The bib pocket, carpenter pocket, and straps are all made from a sparkly silver cotton fabric. There are diamond-shaped patches on all of the pockets made from the polka dot material, with a glasses-wearing cat in the middle of each.

Aaaaaand done with my #CharmPatterns #ArtistApronDress! Time to fall over and get at least a little bit of sleep.

🧵 #sewing #craftsky #stitchsky #SewAndTell #Handmade #GarmentSewing

A photo of a 1.5 short circle skirt (from the Artist Apron Dress by Charm Patterns) and a bodice, both made from a gray cotton fabric with black polka dots and kitty faces printed on it. Some of the kitties are wearing sparkly silver glasses. The carpenter pocket on the skirt, the bib pocket on the top, and the straps are all made from silver sparkly cotton fabric, and the pockets have diamond-shaped patches of the polka dot fabric with a glasses-wearing cat in the middle of each.

Photo is of the skirt and top right before I pinned them together, carefully sewed the whole thing…and then realized I still had my stitch length set on 4 (basting) instead of 2. So I had to stitch it all over again.
🧵 #wip #sewing #craftsky #stitchsky #charmpatterns #artistaprondress #SewAndTell

Several pieces of fabric and paper pattern pieces for the Charm Patterns Artist Apron Dress are spread across a cardboard cutting mat. The bodice and skirt pieces are cut out of a gray fabric with big black dots, which are interspersed with little black cat heads. Half of the cat heads are wearing sparkly silver cat’s eye glasses. The bib pocket, carpenter pocket, and straps are all cut out of a creamy silver sparkly fabric, which coordinates nicely with the cats’ glasses. On the bib pocket and each panel of the carpenter pocket are cut-out diamonds of the polka dot cat fabric, each featuring 9 big dots and a cat with glasses in the center.

I’m about halfway through my second #ArtistApronDress. The store didn’t have enough cat fabric for me to do a full dress, so I’m using sparkly fabric for the pockets and straps.

🧵 #wip #sewing #craftsky #stitchsky #charmpatterns #SewAndTell #Handmade #GarmentSewing

A large piece of fabric is laid out flat on a cardboard cutting mat. It is gray with big black dots on it, and black kitty heads interspersed among the dots. Some of the kitties have glittery silver cat’s eye glasses on. The pattern piece for the back of the skirt (short version) is laid out on the fabric.

Starting @charmpatterns.bsky.social #ArtistApronDress number 2! The jury is out as to whether I can finish this before I leave for New York next week. Wish me luck!

🧵 #wip #sewing #craftsky #stitchsky #charmpatterns #SewAndTell #Handmade #GarmentSewing

#SewAndTell Week 13 - Everyday Heroes
I’ll submit my most recent #CharmPatterns make- the #ArtistApronDress. I made it with the bib, carpenter, *and* side seam pockets, for a total of 7! It’s so incredibly useful, I’m about to make two more!
🧶🧵 #sewing #craftsky #stitchsky #embroidery #GarmentSewing

ALL DONE WITH THE HEMMING! The dress is FINISHED! Wooooooo!

🧶🧵 #sewing #craftsky #stitchsky #charmpatterns #artistaprondress #embroidery #SewAndTell #Handmade #GarmentSewing

apryl_knight - Twitch Apryl Knight plays music from many times and many lands on WAY too many instruments! She plays bowed psaltery, hurdy gurdy, flute, pennywhistle, bodhran, harp, pianonomicon, and whatever else she can...

Going to do the last little bit of hemming my new TARDIS #ArtistApronDress on stream tonight, starting about 8pm CDT. Come hang out and chat!

www.twitch.tv/apryl_knight

🧶🧵 #wip #sewing #craftsky #stitchsky #charmpatterns #artistaprondress #embroidery #SewAndTell #Handmade #GarmentSewing #twitch

For my #SewAndTell, I’m showing my first #CharmPattern! This is the Artist Apron Dress, which I embroidered to make it a TARDIS dress. I did both the carpenter and side pockets, so it has 7 pockets total!

🧶🧵 #wip #sewing #craftsky #stitchsky #artistaprondress #embroidery #Handmade #GarmentSewing

A curved piece of denim fabric, with rectangular panels embroidered in light and dark blue, and pins separating what will eventually be four large pockets, lies on a cardboard cutting mat. Above it lies some folded black fabric with POLICE PUBLIC CALL BOX embroidered on it in white.

I have finished all the #embroidery for my #ArtistApronDress!

🧶 #wip #sewing #craftsky #stitchsky #charmpatterns

A white woman with red hair up in a bun wears a grey t-shirt with the word "Bookstores" on it, and dark grey pants. She is holding the back of an Artist Apron Dress mock-up made from red fabric with tiny white stars on it, so that it sits correctly on the torso. Her right hand holds a phone which is taking the photo. Archie, a brown and black tabby cat, photobombs from halfway-in the doorway of the room.

A white woman with red hair up in a bun wears a grey t-shirt with the word "Bookstores" on it, and dark grey pants. She is holding the back of an Artist Apron Dress mock-up made from red fabric with tiny white stars on it, so that it sits correctly on the torso. Her right hand holds a phone which is taking the photo. Archie, a brown and black tabby cat, photobombs from halfway-in the doorway of the room.

OK! To get the size 8H bodice to fit with a size 14 skirt, I shrunk the waist darts and used the size 14 back piece. The one thing I did wrong was to shrink the entire waist dart. It needed to be less wide, but the same height.

🧶 #wip #sewing #craftsky #stitchsky #charmpatterns #artistaprondress

A piece of black fabric has been sewn to a stretcher frame and “Police Public Call Box” has been embroidered on it in white thread.

Got the outlines done and the stabilizer torn away!

🧶 #wip #sewing #craftsky #stitchsky #charmpatterns #wip #embroidery #artistaprondress

A piece of black cotton fabric is sewn to a set of stretcher bars. An iron-on interfacing strip has “Police Public Call Box” drawn on it as a template, and white thread has been embroidered over the first 3.5 letters. The needle is being held by a magnetic needle minder with a hedgehog looking lovingly at a pincushion.

Finally got the fabric stretched for the accent for the bib pocket on my #CharmPattern #ArtistApronDress, and have started the embroidery.

🧶 #wip #sewing #craftsky #stitchsky #charmpatterns

I am embarking on my very first @charmpatterns.bsky.social pattern (the #ArtistApronDress!) and it’s messing with my head. My bust is size 8H, but my waist is size 14. Gonna have to figure out what bits to change so the bodice will line up with the skirt. #sewing #craftsky #stitchsky #charmpatterns

Circular green patch featuring a dapper frog in a suit surrounded by a mushroom frame on a beige linen background.

I thought the lining was too cute to not be seen so I added a little patch to the pocket. #Sewing #SewistsOfBluesky #ArtistApronDress #CharmPatternsByGertie