Sew Very Cheeky

 I have a friend who loves Baby Yoda. I mean, I do too, he's adorable, but she really loves him. Enough that when a mutual friend of ours was at Joann's and discovered this sweet baby yoda knit fabric (he's napping and it says "power nap" I cannot with this), she called me thinking of this friend. We then conspired to make her this shirt with the fabric. We bought the fabric first, (or rather, the friend did, then gave it to me) and then stumbled upon the Chai Tee (the pattern name still makes me giggle) from Liesl + Co.  I then sent a "how to measure yourself" guide and asked for measurements "for no reason whatsoever" to my friend. I know, I'm sneaky. And subtle.  Then I waited. And waited some more. And then wound up sending her a tape measure because she'd lost hers and I wanted to make the pattern before new years. Patience is not my strong suit when I'm excited about something. Measurements in hand, I cut out the correspondin...

 The first dress I ever sewed was a knit fabric back in December of 2019. Though I'd made multiple quilts at that point, and even quilted a full size quilt on my tiny little Singer Fashion mate, I felt supremely confident in my ability to tackle the Gabrielle  Dress by Seamwork .  The pattern is listed as a beginner pattern, which also helped my confidence. I loved the princess seams, cap sleeves, and back detailing. It turned out surprisingly okay, considering I had never worked with knits, didn't know how to adjust patterns, how to do a bust adjustment, and I'm still not sure how to fix the fact that the back of the dress slightly gaps. I used an unfamiliar machine for this dress, as I sewed it mostly at my parents house, and borrowed my mom's machine.  My mother helped me view the fit issues on the back. The dress is intended to be made either with or without a serger. I assembled this dress with zig zag stitches and lots of seam tape for the top stitching. I had ...