Sewn with Love - Playsuit Day 4 (Last Day)

This was last day of the playsuit sew-along. I finished the playsuit almost two weeks ago, and procastinated in editing the photos and the post. The playsuit consumed four days using my novice sewing experience. In the meantime, I just realized that I had 100.000 more hits since few days ago. Congratulation, my blog ! You just put another great step stone. Ooops, no further talk, here we go :

Attaching Bottom's Cuffs :

1. I took the playsuit's bottom, and made two gathering stitches next to button plackets / button extensions. They were gently gathered up until the width of cuff pieces

2. I aligned one right side of the cuff (that had been folded in half lengthwise and pressed) into wrong side of the bottom's leg, and sewed it using 5 mm seam allowance

3.I took the folded side of the cuff to the right side of the bottom. I pinned it in its place and top-stitched "around" the cuff. "Around" here means along the four edges of the cuff. I did the same for another leg


Sewing The Bodice :

1. I prepared my bodice and its lining, and then sewed each of them at the shoulder seams and side seams

2. I met the bodice and the lining at the wrong side, fitted them, pinned and then sewed them around the neckline

3. Had the bodice turned and pressed, I then prepared the armholes. I fold the armholes' seam allowance inside and pressed them. This task quite challenged me, especially when it came to align the folded edge of the bodice and the lining. After I felt they were aligned, I pinned, basted them, and finally topstitched the atmholes real close to their edges. Pheuww... a hard work


Joining The Bottom and The Bodice :

1. I got a bottom and bodice prepared for the next step

2. I made two gathering stitches at the top edge of the bottom, started next to button placket. I didn't follow the book's instruction this time. The book says to line up the bottom and the bodice at the right side. I did it at the wrong side (from the lining). I stitched along the seams with 5 mm seam allowance, started "next to" button placket. I did not forgot to fold the seam allowance of bottom's button placket first. I did a zigzag stitch around the raw edge. I flipped it outside, and folded the seam allowance of the bodice. After pressed it nicely, and I pinned it around the joint

3. {The button placket was the trickiest task} I folded the bodice's button plackets inside, after folded in each of their seam allowance. Met the bodice button placket with the bottom's button placket. The next step was topstitching the seams that joined the the bodice and the bottom's button placket. Please be aware that you should topstitch the bottom of the button placktes together where they overlapped

4. {This picture will show you how I did it (from the wrong side). I'm afraid that my bubbling wwon't explain the exact steps} Started at bottom of one button placket, I topstitched the the button placket, up to the neckline, and down to the another button placket


Making buttonholes and Attaching Buttons :

1. At the front part of the playsuit bottom's button extension, I made seven "horizontal" buttonholes. The first was on the middle of the extension just beneath the center front seam. Made one at each cuff, and made other four spaced between the first buttonholes and the cuffs' buttonholes {The picture told you better than my words}

2. I sewed seven buttons to the corresponding position

3. I made five "vertical" buttons, place three of them at the bodice button placket and two others at the bottom button placket

Pheuw, I'm glad that I had finished this playsuit sew-along post. How about you ?

For all of you who haven't read the playsuit sew along's previous days, I've collected them into one page "Sewn with Love Sew Along". I hope this can help

Update :

Some of my friends asked me my original opinions about the book and the pattern. I tell you that I'm not that good at critizing something, so I won't write any criticism. I just share my experince *wink

The book has a good order, and some great chapters. I enjoy reading them. My point here is that the book is more suitable for intermediate seamstress, because its instructions are mostly written, and there are not enough step-by-step illustrations for a (very) beginner seamstress

Pattern sizes are not included in the book, so I must opened the enclosed CD. Thank God, the publisher give us a varies number of sizes. Babies's patterns start from 0-3 months until 12-18 months, and older style's patterns range from 18-24 months until 7-8 years. And all of them are packed in organized folders. I didn't have any difficulties to open and choose my size. Of course I need a computer to open the CD, but hey, everyone can access computers now, so I think that's not a big point

The seam allowance is included, yes, included !! It is mostly 5 mm wide, and it help me a lot. The downside is, there are no "Top" sign that indicate top side of a pattern. I needed some good guessings in this thing, and the grainlines guidance helped me a lot. But if you have ever work with some patterns before, it won't be a big trouble for you

That's my point of view

Is there anything else ? Do you want to add something, or add some criticism ? Don't worry, you can write any criticism here, because I believe that criticism is good

Tata for now *smoochies*

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