SWEATSHIRT time, Fabric & Plans for Autumn  

Great idea for the side slits on the top, it elevates the top. I love the cake, bunting and card for your Dad's 90th birthday! The oven mits for your Mom's birthday are beautiful! Thanks for sharing your pictures of your trip. Thank you for all your videos! Enjoy the weekend at your holiday home.

Wow loved the bunting as it is something you can use again ( well the plain one, 90 is certainly a good age) the oven gloves are gorgeous and the pot holder, your mum will love them such pretty fabric 😊 loved your sweat top but really don’t want to think of autumn and winter 🥶 😂 but look forward to seeing your makes ❤

Woohooo! I’m so proud 🥹 the binding looks amazing! Thank you for the lovely comments! So glad the party went well and the oven mits look fantastic. Gorgeous autumn plans 🍂 and OMG candy corn and peanuts!!! This I just HAVE to try.. all that’s missing is a glass of wine! 😉 lovely vlog as always and hope you have a lovely weekend ❤

I love that you started autumn sewing - I’m still up to my eyeballs with Frocktails sewing but cannot wait to make all the sweaters and long sleeve tops! Love the oven gloves and happy birthday to your mom! I love mixing sweet and salty snacks. My favourite is chocolate-covered pretzels!! Gorgeous photos at the end… as always! Have fun at the holiday home! Xx 💞

Great idea for a 3 min tidy as you leave the sewing room. I will adopt that!

Your expressions while eating the candy corn/peanuts was priceless. 😂The mix of the two tastes like a candy bar called “payday.” The oven gloves are so nice. Birthday blessings to your parents. 🥳 Enjoy your weekend! 🧵

I absolutely enjoy all of your videos! Your clothing style is similar to what I like to wear therefore I look forward to each video to see what you will make next. Love seeing all of your photos as well. You are a great photographer. 😁 Thank you for sharing all your hard work and your life with us. I look forward to visiting the UK in the future. ❤

3 .minutes per room FANTASTIC! Maybe 5 before leaving sewing room 😅

Thanks Carole. Been a tough week for me this week so sitting down to watch you this evening was very relaxing and helps me feel that the weekend has started. Have a smashing time at your holiday home. xx

Carole, I have a habit of tidying my sewing space and leave my sewing in a position ready to sew straight away. I am going to try the 3 min trick in the rest of my house thank you.

Thank you for sharing - your mums oven gloves are beautiful and wow what a cake - what an age to reach 90! x

Thanks for reminding me about your simplicity/toaster side split hack Carole. That's a genius idea, that I had forgotten about. Glad the party could go ahead.

Interesting candy combination. Ive never heard of candy corn mixed with nuts. Your photos at the end are always so beautiful! Fun vid!! Have a fun weekend LOVE YOU❤

Thank you for another lovely video, Carole. It's nice to see someone still sewing with the Big 4. I still use commercial patterns, with some favourite indie patterns thrown in. As I'm in Australia, I support a couple of local excellent pattern makers - Tessuti and Pattern Emporium. Looking forward to more of your inspirational sewing. I have decided that the oven mitts are a great gift for friends moving into a new house, or getting a new kitchen.

Fun video, Carole. I've never heard of combining peanuts with candy corn. The cake was truly amazing! I always look forward to the pictures at the end. Have a great weekend and enjoy all those great sewing plans.

Your plans are winners. I tried that butterick 6859 I find the collar is to high, mine turned out a bit different. I have some work to do. Your dad's cake was amazing. The candy corn experiment was a hoot. I am an odd American, never very fond of candy corn to eat but I love the smell. It makes the house smell like Autumn. Have a good week.

Navy is one of your colors, Carole! It looks beautiful on you! Happy birthday to your mom! Her gifts are lovely - you know how much I love practical gifts! Fab job quilting those!That pink, quilted jacket will be fab! I hope you have a wonderful weekend! Enjoy your Candy Corn! 🧡💛🤍😘

Carole, I’d suggest grading out the hips a little on your Toaster Sweater pattern rather than sizing up. The shoulder, bust, and waist fit is wonderful. I love how you draped the arm of the blue blouse over the shoulder of the floral blouse. So cute and unexpected! Your oven gloves are lovely. Your mum will enjoy those. I have trouble with the binding when I use batting and the Insul-Brite. That cake! Wow! Peanuts in candy is an acquired taste. 😂 What I really like is cinema popcorn mixed with chocolate covered peanuts or Goobers. 😘

Thanks for the cleaning idea ,I'm going to try that,😊

Beautiful pictures. I LOVE that part of the US. I can remember climbing to the top of those fire towers. They are situated all over the US. I use candy corn on the top of my pumpkin cake with cream cheese frosting. They always remind me of Halloween. Happy sewing.

The party sounds lovely. Love the bunting. I must also get on with some oven glove making myself! Yours’ were lovely. I like the fabric choices.❤ I must get on with my autumn sewing too. I’m really impressed by the 3 minute tidy plan. Must try that too. So all in all this video has been most inspiring, making me get my act together! 🙏

Well done you. As for the oven gloves, I don't like the heat resistant stuff for many reasons. What I use and love, is leftover samples of thermal back fabric for curtains. Then I get old woollen blankets from charity shops and have less layers. The finished gloves or pot holder are stiff at first but last years. Soaking them in bleach gets most of the greasy stains out, but making new ones every year or so is great for the people you never know what to get. Having extras is always handy if you get unexpected guests who bring gifts. Just disappear to collect their gift and no one ever suspects they were an after thought lol.

Great vlog Carole, very entertaining

Your new top is very nice, I love the fabric. Rachael has me putting bias binding on all my necklines now, but they do look so much nicer. Such a great cake for your dad. Awesome. Your face when you were eating the candy corn and peanuts was hilarious. Have a great week and thanks for sharing. Love the pictures at the end.

I'm in Canada and I've never heard of candy corn and peanuts together, or crisps and chocolate. But we do enjoy cheese popcorn mixed with caramel popcorn.

I love your videos Carole and the fact that you use mainly big 4 patterns is great. You always inspire me and I don’t end up buying patterns at at £20 a time. The green knitted fabric is lovely and I look forward to seeing it made up.I hope this good spell of weather lasts whilst you are at your holiday home.If you are going to make the oven gloves perhaps you could film a demonstration of how you do it.I would love to make some as gifts.❤

I like how you did the splilt on the blue sweater. Please do a video to show us how to adjust the pattern to make that. I love the fireworks fabric. Beautiful colors.

Hi Carole, thank you so much for sharing the sweatshirt pattern, I have been wanting to make a co-ord set with a sweat shirt and forgot that I had this one. xx Love the oven clove.

Great video Carole. Good tip about the sweater. I have this pattern and can’t wait to give it a go. I’m so behind after my broken wrist 😂. Take care. X

I'm glad someone suggested combining candy corn with peanuts, so I didn't have to. The problem with the combo is that I eat too much of it. It is a fun thing to have in a pretty small bowl when you have friends or family over in the autumn. Carole: "It's not unpleasant." 😂 It's always fun to see what you produce using your embroidery machine, even though I really don't plan to ever have one. I don't remember your Butterick long sleeve tops with gathered sleeve heads, so look forward to see the new one. That fireworks fabric is FABULOUS! 3 min. tidies are very worthwhile. Thanks for reminding me.😊 I was better at remembering to have my 5th graders (10 year olds) do these when I was a classroom teacher. I've seen beautiful images of Bonfire Night along the coastlines in the UK in some of the fictional television shows produced there. Happy Autumn! - Kelly

Thank you Carole, was watching this while making your tissue holder-it came out great! Need to try oven gloves next. Love your bunting and birthday card for your dad- congratulations to him.

Debbie D I love candy corn , great pictures.

That cake! I would be afraid to cut it up! 😆 You had me laughing out loud over the candy corn and peanuts! Have a good weekend! 🥰

Oh, Carole, you’re such a good sport to try the candy corn and peanuts on camera! 😍 I love your fall plans. I just finished my last summer make and turned my mind to fall, but it’s still pretty hot here. My sewing time is limited, so I need to go ahead and prepare for cool weather, if it ever gets here. Have a great week. 😊-Deborah

I love your sewing plans. I’m about to start a sweatshirt/ long sleeve jumper. I discovered a wonderful fabric and haderdashery shop when I was out for a drive with my son who was visiting. The shop is in north Derbyshire. It has good makes of fabrics and is beautifully laid out. I got some pretty blue sweat shirting and am dying to get on with making it. In N Ireland Guy Fawkes not celebrated, for religious reasons. Instead Halloween has always been celebrated and that’s when we have fireworks. Love your videos. Xx

I love that snack. I'm from Ohio in the USA and I have often had "Good old Raisins and Peanuts" (called GORP for short) mixed with candy corn or M&M's. Great travel mix.! Love your videos!

Hi Carole. I was so happy to see your video is up. The sweat shirt is so pretty. I love the way you do the side split. It really elevates the look. The oven gloves are awesome. They look so professional. Your Mom will love them. (Happy Birthday to her.) I I’m excited that you’ll be able to use the fabric. Your plans are so exciting. The autumnal firework fabric is lovely. I am going to try the three minute cleaning idea. I’ve been dreading going into the sewing room because I left a mess last night. Thank you for the tip. The cake was perfect for your Dad. I always wanted to take a class to learn all that. But….never did. I have never heard of peanuts and candy conn 😂 Now we must try that. I laughed and was so excited to see what you were going to do.The photos were breathtaking. A few I recognized. Thanks for the mention and for the wonderful video. Have a great weekend. Xoxo Diann 🍓

Lovely sweatshirt and neckline is great 😅

Wow Carole! Such lovely pictures, that’s a great shot of the White House and Capital building! You’re so brave climbing all the way to the top of that fire tower! Your makes are lovely this week, you’ve been busy! Can’t wait to see your autumnal tops. I have never mixed candy corn with peanuts, but hey, everything tastes better with peanuts. If you have bottled Coca-Cola, try adding a small package of salted peanuts right in the bottle. It’s a taste like no other and mostly a southern thing. Have a great weekend 😁

Hi Carol! Well, your sewing plans sound wonderful but it's rather difficult for me to get on the "sewing for Fall" bandwagon when we're still having such hot & humid weather! Know what I mean? Oh, I have a feeling that candy corn with salted peanuts would be REALLY good! Oh my!! It would probably be like a salted nut roll called a PayDay. Have you ever tried one of those? YUM!!! What a lovely birthday cake your Dad had! The cake maker is quite talented! Happy Belated Birthday to your Dad and a very Happy Birthday to your Mother!! She'll love her present, I'm sure. Have a great week-end!!

I've made that Simplicity 8529 3 times and am ready for more - I graded out at the bottom and sewed the side split down more as the first one showed skin when I moved my arms - plus it was drafty 😄! The oven mitt is so cute and I would appreciate a tutorial to make Halloween bunting for my fireplace. Your father's cake is incredible ! Beautiful photos - my husband worked in D.C. for 5 years, coming home on the weekends - it was a loooong 5 years! Not a fan of candy corn myself but yes to peanuts by themselves 😋! My father put vinegar on cooked spinach but I've never met anyone else who did - I realized later vinaigrette dressing on a spinach salad wouldn't be too different. I'm sewing Simplicity 3012, a hoodie, as I watch, but wearing shorts and a t-shirt - it will get cold, I know!

LOVE those oven gloves! Any chance you would do a tutorial on the next pair? I'd love to see how your process goes with the layering! So adorable!

Another really enjoyable video Carole. Your sweater doesn't seem to look too tight to me. I like it a lot. I agree about your face when you try the nuts mixed in with your candy corn (is that what it's called). Intriguing obviously. Thank you. Maree

Beautiful binding on the neckline. I need to do that! I just usually use my serger. That knit top fits you perfect at the bust and shoulders. You may not want to size up. You are blessed to have both parents. I lost my father in 2005 and my mother in 2019. Enjoy them while they are here. The oven gloves and potholders are beautiful. Great decorations for your father's birthday. I just picked up some quilted fabric to make a jacket also! Mine is not double sided. I will have to line mine. I think your grey ribbing will go with the pink just like the cover. What a fantastic cake!! I've always wanted to learn how to decorate cakes but afraid I would get fat eating them!! 🤣🤣♥♥

Carole, nice fabric for tee and I love the upgraded neckline! I guess that’s a cotton tape? I like the side openings. I knitted a pullover sweater with this detail and it’s a favorite.

Carole, here in Texas, there is a trail mix here that has candy mixed with assorted nuts and dried cranberries 😊 it is different, BUT I LOVE candy corn ❤

Thank goodness I like the 3 minutes tidy rule. I usually set my timer for 10 minutes and sometimes it feels like it's too long and I feel badly that I feel badly that it's only 10 minutes. Hahaha was that confusing or what! I have to tidy up a little at the end of my sewing sessions because if I don't I won't want to go back in the next day to do anything. I'll walk in and walk out!

I hope to try the same version of the Toaster Sweater sometime this winter. I love the raglan sleeve version a lot, but I have never tried the split hem version. I have never tried peanuts and candy corn together either, so I‘lol have to give that a try too. Have a wonderful weekend. 😊

Hi Carole love all your vlogs. I am still in beginner mode but found (after intense research lol) that for my tummy area if I do a horizontal dart from CF to side seam just at the waist (same as the swayback dart but letting out instead of taking in) it falls to the correct length at CF and gives my well earned tummy breathing room. And I don’t have to go up a size which tends to give me a body builder vibe round the shoulders with all the excess fabric.

It made the sweet things even sweetier! Hahaha hahaha! I thought that was funny! I Love the Weirdness!

Beautiful makes. The jacket will be fab. I made it recently, and I love it

Thanks Carole. Looks like you're going to have a new section in your vlogs "Carole's strange food combinations tested live on air". your face was indeed a picture.

Candy corn and nuts taste just like a Payday candy bar.

A tutorial on how you the side splits would be very welcome. 😊

I really enjoy your videos that include sewing and a slice of regular life! I have loved candy corn for most of my life…is it unique to the US? I will have try the peanut mixture since I now find the candy too sweet. 😊

Could you please do a quick lesson on how you did that side vent? I just made that top as well and it does open kind of wide…

Hi Carol, would you be able to tell us about your dressmaker’s dummies and if you like them? I’m looking for one and feel confused about what to buy as a home/hobby sewist. Thanks in advance!

I Love candy corn and salted peanuts 🥜 I like the neck binding. How do you do that? Look at you go Mrs. Quilter! What do you call that fabric you're going to use for a jacket with the squares on it?

Can you do a tutorial on panties? Using that wide elastic?

Great blog as usual, loved the oven gloves . Is that heat resistant stuff called Insil bright and where do you get it from? S8529 is something I’m going to make soon as the pattern is half price at the moment- a bonus. Loved your photos too, Pat

Hi Carole. I recently purchased the Butterick t shirt pattern. I am a D cup. Would you suggest a full bust adjustment or is there enough room in the pattern? I'm thinking about getting an oversized men's t shirt at Walmart and destructing it and using this pattern to make as a test before I cut my good fabric. Mmmmm, candy corn with peanuts. The protein in the peanuts will help cut the sugar rush 🤣. I have also been admiring the bindings Rachel puts on her seams. So professional looking. Guess it is time to up my sewing game. Love your videos, Carole. Happy autumn sewing! 🍁🍁🍂🍂 Bernadette

Nice vid-where oh where did you get that gorgeous green fabric?? I have to have some-the knit one??!! :+)

I made my first B6859! I thought of you the entire process. I really like it and will make again! I laughed at your candy corn update. in America, we are not especially proud of our diet. It's called the SAD, standard American diet. The SAD will kill you and make your clothes not fit. Since you came to USA, you have gone up in size to a whopping S. Just saying... be careful with those sweets!😀

Just curious…do you size down when making that Scout Tee since it’s designed for a woven? It looks very nice!

There is nothing you could add to candy corn to make it edible 😂.

Bunting. Fabric glue rather than appliqué stitching…..

oh my gosh !!!!!!!!! show the pattern long enough so we can actually look at it. that way we can see the number of the pattern. Why do you move your hand holding the pattern all ver, shake, shake