When we were heading out on our driving vacation to our friends house in Cincinnatti, we brought gifts. The night before heading out I realized we didn’t have anything for Kelly (Steve was getting beer…a total man gift!), so I worked on this apron for her. Again, no real pattern, just made it up as […]
Category: Sewing
I even hurried up and modeled them for you Internets! I always feel like such a heel bringing my tripod out in the backyard, but I got them taken. 🙂 I made these dresses this weekend from patterns. The first one is from a Project Runway pattern by Simplicity #3530 and the other is the same pattern […]
And one that I won’t be wearing anytime soon. Let me preface this by saying that I really like the dress…just not how it looks on me. Yes, another dress that looks better on the hanger than on my person! It was quite eye opening when I took pictures of myself wearing it. It reiterated […]
Last week I played bunco at the home of one of my neighbor’s. She is a master seamstress and her daughter’s wedding dress was on the dress form in their living room. It was glorious. She had sewed over 1,000 pearl and crystal beads onto it, and it sparkled so beautifully in the late evening […]
I am hosting Crafty Tuesday this week since Carrie is gone to Hawaii. Lucky ducks! I love Hawaii, and hopefully someday we can brave the 8 hour flight again and take the kiddos. I think they would love to swim with the sea turtles, which was exceedingly cool. The whales weren’t too bad either. I […]
Since Kailan hasn’t been acting up and getting all attitudey on us, he has been getting clothes sewn for him. Anya needs to earn more dresses, even though mommy really wants to make more. These shirts are the same pattern as the last one. I just used buttons instead of snaps and only one pocket. […]
I’m not sure how many times last week he asked me if I was done with his clothes…but it was many. Many, MANY. Upon further review of his closet last week I discovered that he had way too many clothes as it was, so I don’t feel like I need to make him a ton […]
Adding tulle to a dress makes it princessy, right? Anya had a princess birthday party this past weekend, and they were supposed to wear princess dresses. Well, I didn’t get this done in time so I sent her in the dress I made her for her birthday. Hey, it has princesses on it, so it […]
Okay, seriously…I didn’t get all of this done this week. I need to eat, too. 😉 I signed up to do a stash sewing competition on a (mostly) children’s sewing forum I frequent. Basically for the month of May you try to use your fabric, notions, etc. and you get points for everything you make. […]
On Sunday the Princess had her party with friends. The occassion warranted another dress, of course. This one has a bunch of butterflies on it and is seersucker. It’s very twirly, too, of course. The same self-drafted pattern as the last one. The seersucker definitely gave it some volume…beyond just being twirly. It was plenty […]
