KCWC success dress

I admit, one of the reasons I love having a daughter is so I can sew for her. I mean, those sailor pants were cool, but that boy would rather play in his underpants in the mud than sew and model… so this morning, the Bean and I made this… This dress has achieved something […]

KCWC day 5: dress and MAIL!

we had to go buy RK supplies this morning, at Joanns (double sided fusible interfacing is not something I stock in large amounts), and the Bean found this butterfly fabric, so here’s her new dress… I had exactly this much of the Kona solid left from a quilt top for one pocket, and I used […]

Day 3: KCW challenge

I bought this birthday card from Trader Joe’s several months ago, for no reason other than that I LOVE the dress. Since my Ottobre Kids mags *STILL* haven’t arrived (ok, magazines from Norway or wherever they are have a right to take a while), I think I’m going to attempt this today. Time to see […]

KCWC day 1: a red froggie dress

I love honeycomb stitches… I spent all day on a quilt for C, (for his office), and then realized that it was the first day of the challenge, (and the Ottobre Kids magazines I ordered haven’t come yet), so I grabbed some Kona Tomato (left over from the bunting quilt), and some scraps of this […]

twirly girl dress on a twirly girl

  The problem with making a twirly girl dress is that the girl wearing it is constantly in motion…   it’s remarkably difficult to photograph   but I suppose that’s what makes the dress itself a success…      

Twirly girl dress

The Bean loooooves her Joel Dewberry Heirloom dress. Like, A LOT. When she wears it, she gets really excited and calls herself a twirly girl. She wants more, and I want to maker her more, but I whipped out the first one in an hour of inspiration in the middle of the night back in […]

Tinkerbell!

ok, I’m uploading pics for the giveaway, I promise, but in the meantime, lookit what the Bean and I made her today: (the dress, not the wings) She wants to be Tinkerbell to go with D’s Peter Pan, but she didn’t have a “tinkerbell dress.”  Now, I’m NOT anti-Disney, I LOVE Disney, but I think […]

EXPLODING with cuteness.

I made another dress last night, because I had to stay busy. and because I need to make THIS dress now. so here’s the latest version, using a Kona (Rich Red?) and this gorgeous organic fabric (Pick a Bunch) :  ( I think The Bean likes it) It’s my State Fair Frock, again, but this […]

a little school jumper…

So, obviously yesterday was 9/11, and I totally couldn’t handle it.  I hugged D so hard at one point he complained (he normally loves hugs)… It’s a crazy day for me, because we could see the smoke (and we were covered in ash by evening) from across the bay (we, my best friends and I, […]

name hunting….

Sorry for the extended absence, we went to SF last weekend, and I still haven’t figured out how to email pics in… but I have lots! Starting with these:   The night before we left, I whipped this one up, and it looks SO cute on her! It’s the same idea as this shirt, which […]