another dress for the Bean (shocking, right?)
I CANNOT WAIT TILL DAYLIGHT. this dress is KILLING me with it’s cuteness. I didn’t have enough of the blue contrast (yes, I could buy more, these fabrics are from the new line of DS Quilts from Joanns, but that’s not challenging enough) to do square pockets, so I cut my scrap into very careful […]
KCWC day 4
I had a parent meeting last night for D’s school, so I didn’t get to sew much…. but in the a.m., while D was at school, I made these pants. These are C’s old pants… (I’m actually not sure what was wrong with them, but they were in my refashion pile, so…uh…. I *hope* I […]
KCWC day 5
I found this tutorial/pattern in the Elsie Marley KCWC Flickr pool, and HAD to make it. I totally didn’t have enough of this awesome (hoarded for >2 years) fabric, though…. So I cut VERY carefully, and used a coordinating solid to line and back the pockets… I used my favorite peasant top (scaled down, to […]
on a roll…. sorta
My goal, after KCWC ends, is to master knits. I struggle with them soooooooo very much. this one was just a 2o minute play dress idea, so I don’t mind (too much) that it’s sloppy. It’s just a peasant dress, without the sleeves, attached to a shirred circle. It has pockets, of course. One is […]
I am biased, admittedly.
But I’m pretty sure I have the world’s cutest kiddos. after making this dress yesterday afternoon, I rushed to make more for the Bean after bedtime. so here’re my 2 more: fancy stitch used for hem. I always forget to use fancy stitches, but I might as well, right? back view. this one is reversible […]
Kids Clothes Week Challenge!
It started Monday. so Monday night, I made these pants for D (from C’s ripped jeans) (it’s really hard to get a good pic of dark loose jeans on a 4 year old boy.)yesterday, I made this dress, and wanted to cry and quit the whole thing. It just REEKS of homemade. PLUS, to add […]
New Look 6781
Spring Top week! again! Already!
this year has FLOWN by, but it’s week again, over at Made By Rae….this year, all of my entries have a theme: SCRAPS!I made this shirt, for Lauren and for her store, and she was SUPER generous, and let me keep the scraps. (It’s not in the pic, but I used the Anna Maria Horner “shattered suns” […]
New Look tunic
I used scraps again to make New look 6033. the one in the main picture, but shorter (whoops, I think I might have liked it longer, but I don’t like LONG things, and so snipped, and now regret…), and I used contrasting scraps for the whole neckline. reasonably well fitting, easy to make, super cool […]
Union Jill
Despite my best intentions, I never got around to posting this before THE WEDDING. anyway, here’s my interpretation of the Union Jack as an Aviatrix Dress… I had never noticed, before making this, how incredibly ASYMMETRICAL the British Flag is.I tried to copy it, but next time, (if there IS a next time), I’m going to take […]