Sew & Spin

Summer seems to bring out my urge to sew. This time it happened as a result of a quick visit to a cool little shop in North Ballard- Wool Friends

Really neat neighborhood studio with lovely fabrics, woolly wool on cones, spinning fiber, looms, etc ,and sewing patterns! I picked up this SewHouse Seven pattern for the Remy raglan top

It’s got a few variations- plain or keyhole split front, short, 3/4 or long gathered sleeve. I decided to make a split front 3/4 version to start and found some suitable fabric in my stash. Here it is hanging out in the appletree!

Seems like it has a lot of potential as a wardrobe basic that will work well with my growing collection of sweater vests 🙂 It’s a nice pattern- works up pretty quickly and has french seams, so nice finished edges throughout.

With that complete, I’m turning my focus back to the “God is a Woman” project. Spinning outside today to take advantage of the beautiful weather-

Also washing up the last of Dottie’s ’26 fleece today- so it’s a Dottie day all around!

Doesn’t get much better than playing with fleece out in the sunshine.

Oh- meant to mention that I finally got to see The Sheep Detectives! Was super cute-and loved the range of breeds represented in the sheep characters. Makes me want to revisit the book that it’s based upon- Three Bags full by Leonie Swann