Wednesday, July 29, 2009
For Holly
Holly is my Husbands "work girlfriend". (but it is okay because I know about it *smile)She loved the tutu that I made for Isabella and Aiyana and asked if I would make one for her daughter Kayla.
Kayla likes pink. So I used two different colors of pink tulle and used a darker pink thread for a little contrast.
Monday, July 27, 2009
Blue Button up shirt
Basic t-shirt
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
A Time To Dance..
I made this tutu for Isabella for her first birthday. I got it finished just in time (July 18, 2009) for her party. I bought a blue onesie with a mermaid on it to go with the tutu. Maybe Melissa will post a picture of her wearing it.
Close up of the edging. This is the same stitch that I used for Emma's party dress, on this one though I used three different pinks. Something different to do. It turned out beautiful.
Monday, July 20, 2009
Isabella's Birthday Dress
Here she is celebrating her 1st birthday in her beautiful birthday dress we made her.
It's amazing how much they grow in a year! Okay, I'm done with the mushy look how much she has grown portion of this post now onto the dress! The pictures aren't the best for seeing how the dress looked on her and I'm trying to figure out how to do a little photo shoot with her to fix that problem. Due to the fact that I'm not feeling too hot today, I'm just going to copy and paste the post about the dress itself from my other blog.
As usual I had an idea in mind for what I wanted this dress to be and then it was just a matter of finding the right materials in real life. I wanted to do a blue dress for her to match the mermaid under the sea theme that I'm doing for her party. The color ended up what you would probably call aqua. The tulle in the skirt is actually a green color but it matches perfectly.
I don't know where I would be without my friend and co-conspirator, Stephanie. She helped me pick out just the right fabrics and with all of the sewing. We used her serger to do a 3 stitch overlock hem on the shear fabrics. I don't normally like this kind of hem but in this instance it was exactly what I wanted. The back of the dress gave us some trouble. The pattern we used called for a zipper but I didn't want a zipper extending into the skirt so we switched it to buttons. When we got to doing the buttonholes neither Stephanie or I really liked the way it was looking. We decided to have one button at the top and leave the rest open like a keyhole back.
The skirt is 3 layers of fabric. The top layer is an aqua organza with little silver "beads" sprinkled all over it. The middle layer is two layers of green tulle. The bottom layer is aqua organza.
The skirt is very sheer and definitely has to have the diaper cover underneath it. It is also very short but I wanted it short so she could call in it. Stephanie calls it a crawling skirt.
It turned out so beautiful! I'm so happy with how she looked in it too!
Sunday, July 19, 2009
For Baby LaCalzie
Saturday, July 18, 2009
For Baby Worthen
Blessing outfit. Okay I know that I LOVE Egyptian cotton. I mean really soft and really nice to sew. HOWEVER I may have to change to cotton-poly blend. I just hate how EC wrinkles. I did use it though for this outfit (it is what I had on hand.), and will from now on most likely use a cotton poly blend to save the poor Mother ironing time. We did the tie out of a more shiny fabric for a little more dimension. The tie is fastned with adjustable snaps. I know too cool right? It just gets better.
Here is the outfit without the tie.
Here is the dress shirt. FOR ALL THE MOMS OF BOYS OUT THERE: I have thought about doing something similar to this for about three years now. I hate how the shirt always come untucked. So we designed our own "new bottom" of a dress shirt pattern. I know cute huh?
Easy convient snaps to change your little one in an ever so small and crowded Mother's lounge at church. (It is just me or are those rooms designed for elfs? Ours only seats two Moms in chairs and maybe if you are lucky another two on the floor. I think women need to design the rooms!!Enough said.)