Rich's Birthday Robe

If you've been following my blog for a while, you will know I've been sewing for about four years. That's quite a long time and I've made a lot of things for myself and also for nieces, nephews, my friends kids and also a bunch of aprons for friends. I've even made stuff for craft swaps - but I didn't get around to making a single thing for Rich!

I don't know why,  but for some reason I have a kind of fear of sewing for Rich, I  think its a general fear of sewing for men. I think if my nephew was  16 instead of 8 and he asked me to sew him a hoodie I would also be filled with fear. I don't know what it is about sewing for men that freaks me out, maybe its just a fear of the unknown - more likely its a fear of buttonhole and sewing a fly zipper.

This year I decided I would make Rich's birthday present and due to my fear of sewing for men, I decided to start simply and make a robe. It's a thing that he needed anyway and really it seems that all the ready to wear men's robes are totally boring.

I asked my friend Shell to take me out to Spotlight as there doesn't seem to be anywhere in the city to buy fleece since Arthur Toye closed down. When she found out I didn't have a pattern for a dressing gown either she loaned me hers - its good to have sweet sewing friends!

This is the fabric I chose for Rich, they had quite a few fun fleece prints at Spotlight, but this was the fabric I thought he'd like the most. It's space, but also kind of like something a wizard would wear.

Here's the final robe, being modeled by the fence in our courtyard - not Rich, but he does really like it I promise.

I really liked how it turned out and I'm happy that I managed to make Rich something he loves. I kind of love it too as it looks so snuggly, so last time I went to Spotlight I picked up some fabric for my own robe.

I love this fabric so much! In case you can't tell from the picture these are unicorns with rainbows.