Colors of Summer

These are two summer shirts and a pair of shorts that we made. The excess fabric is from Easter outfits from 2008. (there is a pressing water mark on the shorts. I should have washed them before the pics were taken, but well....I am human and I do make mistakes.)

This is the front of the shorts. It has a really nice flat waiste band.

The back of the shorts has elastic for a better fit, without ruining the look of the front.

The front of the yellow and pink shirt.

The back of the yellow and pink shirt.

The front of the pink and green shirt.

The back of the green and pink shirt.

Red, White & Blue

So I'm really late posting these but here are the Independence Day outfits we made for my kids.

For Christopher:


For Kaitlin:


For Isabella:


It was fun to make outfits for all my kids. I seem to have problems with shorts though as both Christopher and Kaitlin's shorts fit funny. I'm not postive on what was wrong with them but they definitely weren't fit the way I would have liked. Isabella's outfit was, by far, my favorite and fit the best.

Happy Fourth of July

Here are my babies all lined up for pictures. Aiyana's is the only outfit that we made.

Here is the back of it with the cute buttons and the really cute hair tie. I love it.

Not quite a frontal shot, but it will have to do.

Aiyana's Fourth of July

Here is Aiyana's Fourth of July outfit. Melissa donated the stars fabric and the cotton I had on hand. I did have to buy the buttons for $1.60, but I had to do it. I mean look at how cute they make the outfit!

This is a close up of the side tie.

Close up view of cross over bodice. I love the blue top stitching.

The back of the outfit. We "adjusted" this pattern so much. I didn't like having a zipper all the way down Aiyana's back and thought wouldn't it be cute if I just finished the "bodice" just a few buttons? Then I went to the store with Melissa since she needed some red fabric and I saw these buttons. I couldn't say no. Originally I was just going to use some plain white ones. Any thoughts?

See how cute they look? How on earth could I resist???

These are the shorts that we made for Aiyana. There is a hidden side zipper. So the outfit has really nice clean lines.

This is the hair tie that goes with the outfit. We glued rhinestones in some of the stars. Pretty cute. Once the Pony-o is around her hair the fabric gathers really nice.

The entire outfit. I am very happy with this one.

Miss Alexa Kayley

Kayley is Ilea's younger sister and a princess in her own mind. She is three years old and loves anything pretty. Unfortunatly I wasn't able to make her any "pretties" with this outfit. (pretties are hair accessories, and she loves them, but since I don't have any hair clip backs left I can't make any hair stuff. The trauma!)

As you can see I used the same trim as I did on her sister's dress, but the dress color is pink instead of blue.

I took these pictures very quickly before getting the dresses over to my sister's home. The bodice is crocked, because well that is the kind of photographer I am. I will try harder next time in the mean time, just be grateful I took pics! *smile*

For Alexa Kayley

This is another scrap project of mine. We made this dress for Miss Alexa Kayley. (Yeah I know I have a ton of nieces, so that means ton of projects.) It was pretty basic, pretty easy and went together very quickly. All in all I am happy with it. I wish I had a challenging project to do. Guess we will have to wait for Isabella's party dress.

For Ilea

So the only sewing projects that I have been able to do lately are projects where I already have the fabric for. Due to our wonderful economy I have not been able to buy fabric for about nine months so everything that I am doing/have done will be from my extra/scrap fabric bins. Yeah. It makes things a little difficult when you really want a certain look but can't buy the "trims" for it. Above is a skirt I did for my niece Ilea. I call it my Alice In Wonderland skirt because of the colors. The blue is a fabric I had left over from making matching pj bottoms for all five of my sisters and my Mom when went went to South America. The white ruffle is left over from Aiyana's Cinderella costume.

This dress for Ilea is pretty much the same, but I used some pink bias tape that I had to add a little contrast. The butterfly waist trim and bows is from my ribbon bin and seems to add some really nice contrast. The only thing bought was the zipper which my sister purchased. Not bad $3.27 for a dress. She got a screaming deal! *smile* And me....well I got to keep up my addiction.

These are the hair bows that will match either outfit. They are done with french clips on the back that came from my hair accessories pile. Sorry about the pictures. My hubby took them and I don't think he understood what I needed.