Our first amazingly talented tutorialist, and former Skirt Week winner, is Janica of JaniJo! Janica is bringing us a fun full skirt with grommet detailing and a contrast hem. I love her little kick of yellow, and I can see so many variations with different sized and colored grommets and using different materials for the…
Archives for May 2013
Knit Pencil Skirt: A Tutorial
It Has Begun!! Happy Skirt Week 2013! Flickr groups are open for all your lovely skirt creations made any time between last year’s skirt week and now, so go enter them already! You can enter up to three in each of the categories (full details here): Straight …
Follow Skirt Week! (and crafterhours!)
There are quite a few blogs I “follow”. I know the writer’s children’s names, recognize their homes, can tell that they made something just by looking at what it is and how it’s photographed. I notice when things have been rearranged or someone has a new haircut. It’s how you feel like you have friends…
Getting Medieval on the Kids
In stark contrast to Adrianna’s 6 year old who loves pink and sparkly and “fashion“, mine loudly and proudly exclaims “I’m a tomboy!” The extent of her girliness includes the fact that she wanted to get her ears pierced for her birthday and that she chose pink sparkly hearts as her first earrings. Fancy dresses…
Pretty in Pink
Do not adjust your screens, this is the actual color of this fabric! My daughter had a Father/Daughter Dance this weekend for Girl Scouts and needed a dress. I asked her what kind of dress she’d like, and her complete and vehement instructions to me were: 1. It must be sparkly 2. It must have…