Katie’s Baby Girl…
needs a new dress. Juse because. My friend Katie liked this dress I made for the Bean….Because she’s as cute as a button. The pockets are just a regular bagged-rectangle, with the top folded over and sewn down with the fake button Because elastic shirring is cute and fun. Katie supplied the fabric, and I LOVE […]
Dinosaur heat-transfers…
Ok, I’m finally getting a chance to write the stuff to go with the pics I posted yesterday! phew! One of my bestest (yup, that’s a word) friends from college (and one of my daughter’s godfathers), is going to be a dad around the end of the summer… He’s been great at discussing dinos with […]
Tatting for KCWC…
If I can do a whole long chain of this tatted lace, it's going on the collar of a coat for the Bean…
practice and improvement…
My awesome friend Erin (Hi Erin!) gave me a bunch of old t-shirts (really old ones for D’s school), to play with…given my recent wadder pile o’knits, I decided to practice with some 90-minute shirts. love love love this handsome boy I’m actually happy with the result! HOORAY! I could fiddle with the pattern a […]
Voila! (aka KCWC day 5)
here it is, in all it’s glory, on my daughter…. I love how forlorn she looks in this picture. It’s because I put her down. she is big into being carried right now. Cute, right? oh wait, what’s this? Of course, right when I got it on her (she was Roo to D’s Tigger all […]
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 […]