.: April 2009

Puppet Show Tunic

This is my favorite shirt so far. It was the most pain stacking to make but well worth all the pain. I tore the shirt apart 3/4 into it when I thought I misplaced the darts. No, the darts were NOT misplaced so I had to reconstruct and figure where I went wrong after that. I LOVE the back. The red buttons give your on-lookers a little treat as you walk away. Perfect with a pair of red shoes. Don't you think?

And the collar is perfect!! Can you imagine it with a vest? Oh I can't wait to finish one for Celia to match. I think I may have forgotten how much went into this one. I think the next one will be alot smoother.

Easter Dress

Every girl should have a bow on her birthday.........why not on her dress? In this case it was Easter, but hey, it worked so well for them.

The inside hem of the skirt matched the bow. It gave it a special touch in case the wind blew it up a bit.

These were not the dresses I had planned for Easter Sunday. I was actually on time this year and had the girls Easter outfits all ready well in advance....that is until I made MEA's Easter dress Thursday (yes, the night before Good Friday) and fell in love with it. I thought, "Sure I can make two more for the girls before Sunday morning." So Friday night and Saturday night I was up 'til 2 am constructing these. And I love them! And the girls enjoyed them too. MEA is out of town this week so I can't photo her with the girls. I will get the three of them when she gets back and post. Her dress is in a different print but all three from the same line of fabric. I also cut out pieces for 6 other dresses in the same fabric. Which means that I will be adding them to our Etsy site soon. They make a FABULOUS "Birthday Party Dress".

Fun Skirts!

My girls LOVE skirts! Year after year I have bought them skirts from Gymboree BUT this year I started making them fun skirts. This is the first of many (I hope). I prefer for them to wear biker shorts of some sort underneath so that when they are getting silly their panties aren't exposed. That will be a sewing mission for another day (the biker shorts). So, since I do not know how to make a skort I am thinking about adding muslin to this skirt as a second (inside) layer. What do you think?