My First Soap Experiment

Last year I was pregnant and had so many mood swings.To cope up with that I started my favorite crafty experiments. Accidentally I came to know about making soaps. Found this wonderful tutorial for making soap for beginners. Later I bumped into soapqueen.com and found many recipes.

Unfortunately I didn't have Palm oil at home. I was in no mood to give up or wait till I order some palm oil. So I started searching for soap recipes without palm oil and found wonderful blogger Amanda at LovinSoap.com . She has many soap recipes without palm oil. I became excited at and tried this soap recipe without palm oil. I didn't have any special equipment for this.

I had purchased Avocado oil at Homegoods and Lye from http://www.essentialdepot.com. I hadn't calculated anything just gone with what was written on that blog. Oh boy I made so many soaps. I have used some food coloring to color the soap. I was scared to mix in the colors and to make the soap ,but soap making is fun and exciting. You can't believe how the liquid ingredients turns into soap in front of your eyes like a magic. I haven't used any fragrance so soap was fragrance free.I had used muffin molds and milk carton to fill in the soap.

 

You can see the soap are not shaped properly as I didn't had any prior experience. But these soaps even after one year still lather so good and they don't dry your skin.

Lessons Learned : Don't go by the quantities mentioned in the recipe unless your family is big, scale down or up accordingly. 

Legging Drafting Tutorials

I started my sewing journey with leggings. My girl likes leggings and most of her wardrobe has leggings. Since I don't want to mess fabrics, I have started sewing leggings first. These are the following websites I have followed to sew leggings. After sewing more than 10 leggings, now I can say I love to draft leggings and sew them instead of tracing the existing leggings.

1. I have started my sewing journey with this tutorial from dana : Ruched Leggings I had made leggings using my T shirt and it ended up as a mess. Struggled what to do and how to do :)



2. Here is another legging tutorial and pattern form Scattered Thoughts of Crafty Mom : Flounce Bottom Leggings Tutorial with free pattern . I love this website, it has great tutorials and it is very easy to follow.

The problem with drafting leggings from readymade leggings is there is too much show in back. My girl is not conscious yet and when she bends we can have sneak peak at her innerwear. I don't want that so I started looking for drafting the leggings and came across these wonderful tutorials...

1. This is drafting legging patterns from Stretch Yourself : Drafting and Sewing Leggings I have drafted this legging pattern. But I made some mistake while taking measurements and ended in wrong drafting. But I'm sure this is very good drafting pattern. I will update after re drafting my girls legging pattern.



2. I have tried so sew easy leggings drafting tutorial and it works. But I need some more changes to fit.



3. I have bookmarked this leggings drafting tutorial on etsy and have yet to try. When I get some time will draft legging pattern using this. This looks so promising as she is an sewing instructor.