Monday Morning Quarterback

Well, after a week of traveling around town by canoe (thanks, Fay!) the rain let up enough for us to spend Sunday afternoon at Joann's, shopping for patterns and fabric for our next project. I let them each choose whatever they wanted, which led to an extraordinarily long time at the pattern books! ;)

In the end, Juana decided to make a zippered sweatshirt for her son from this Burda pattern:

She is actually making view A below (not being modeled by either boy above). She picked a red fleece and matching red ribbed knit.

Ana decided to make a robe and pair of matching pajamas for herself. She is going to make the camisole (view B) from this pattern...

and the robe (minus the hood) and long pants from this pattern:

In an attempt to encourage more independence, I suggested that Ana and Juana cut out the pattern pieces and pin them to the fabric sometime during the week. I'll do a quick doublecheck on Sunday, before any fabric is actually cut. They seemed nervous, but I think this will be another very good step for them. (We did go over the instruction sheets and layout illustrations before I left.)

And now, the moment you've all been waiting for - David and Abel model their new shirts! First, David (who, it should be noted, prefers his shirts a bit loose)...

Then Abel...
As I think you will be able to tell from these photos, everyone agreed that this project was a complete success! :)