Shabby Roses Block 6

Just in the nick of time I finished the July block for the Shabby Roses BOM!

Block 6 - Rest

Camera Strap for Randi

The wonderful and talented Randi took some pictures for me of my beautiful baby girl, Isabella, in her 1 year birthday dress.  I wanted to make her something to say thank you so I decided to use some scraps I had and sew her up a camera strap cover.



I used the camera strap tutorial at Cluck Cluck Sew and added some little pockets that I embroidered on.



I think it turned out super cute! I hope you like it Randi!

Christmas Wish Block 3

I've finally finished block 3 (Joy) from the Christmas Wish BOM by Gail Pan Designs.



I think I need to pick up the pace on these otherwise I'll never be done by Christmas!

Isabella's Birthday Dress

Isabella's birthday dress is done! 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. I'm very happy with how it turned out and she's going to look so pretty and summery in it!

Moon & Stars Baby Blanket

My friend, Stephanie, is making a baby blanket for a couple she knows that are having their first baby this month. She asked if I would embroider a little something on the corner of the blanket for her. I was happy to do it and here's what I came up with.



She wanted a moon and stars but pretty much left it up to me as to what to embroider. I think it turned out really cute but the picture doesn't really capture it very well. I used a white metallic thread mixed with the blue and so it's a lot more sparkly in real life. The large stars turned out a bit wonky. I blame this on the fact that I was embroidering on a knit fabric without a stabilizer. The moon applique and word "Baby" turned out beautiful though!

Hooray for Red, White & Blue

So I'm a bit behind in posting these but here are the outfits I made (with much help from my BFF, Stephanie) for my kidlets for Independence Day.

For Christopher's outfit, we made a button up shirt and a pair of shorts from Butterick pattern 3475. The shirt fit perfectly but the shorts fit funny.



For Kaitlin's outfit, we made a shirt and shorts from Butterick pattern B4503. I loved the ruffles on the front of the shirt but it ended up a little short. These shorts also had problems so apparently I need to work on fitting shorts better.



For Isabella's outfit, we made a shirt and a pair of what I'm calling bubble shorts. The shirt was from Simplicity pattern 4203. It was by far my favorite piece and it fit and looked beautiful! The shorts are motification of the bloomers from Simplicity pattern 4709. I used the bloomer pattern and then added a cuff on the opening to create a cross between bloomers and shorts.



I had a lot of fun doing these outfit but I definitely need to work on getting a better fit when I sew shorts.