in progress...

a little link love (and lots of photos!)

well, the first one is clearly finished. this is miss leila's sweater, knitted from ravelry's 'fall vest' pattern and some lamb's pride in pistachio and victorian pink: 

and this is something i've been working on this weekend (blue scraps. i made the peppermint pouf a few months ago):

see, i had this shirt (pink scraps on the right). from high school. no joke, i figured out i've had it for maybe 9 or 10 years... probably time for it to retire, as it was growing rather tired (the fabric actually ripped often while i was picking it apart) and had a few "additions" that wouldn't come out in the wash:

 so, i picked it apart (the most time consuming part of the process thus far).

 used my picked apart pieces as a pattern and busted out  dusted off great gram's old singer.

 and started stitching together something pretty in blue! stay tuned (i know you're all on the edge of your respective seats.)

i've found a few great sewing/ refashion blogs lately, and i'm feeling inspired to work through my fabric stash during buy nothing lent. i also recently made a baby kimono but didn't manage to take pictures in my excitement to give it to my pregnant co-worker. fret not, though, i have two more to make and will try to get pictures of those before giving them away.