Here are the results of Z’s derainbowfication. Not the girliest of dresses, but with her major map obsession, quite appropriate. And educational too! (as long as you still recognize the USSR) I just applique’d the continents around the hem of the dress (-Antarctica, + New Zealand) and added the little compass rose at the…
KCWC: Derainbowfication
De-Rainbow-fication. Yeah, it’s a word. Yesterday I finished derainbowfying P’s dress. If you remember, the originals looked like this: And now P’s looks like this: Unfortunately, I had a very uncooperative model, so I snapped these pictures really quickly before realizing I was in manual mode and hadn’t changed my camera settings. So they’re way…
Over the Rainbow
First, the best news – Susan is getting all her stuff today! Wahoo! I told her to unpack her sewing machine and ignore the rest :) Also, it’s day 3 of Elsie Marley‘s Kids Clothes Week Challenge, and I haven’t posted about it yet. But that doesn’t mean I’m not participating. On Day 1, I…
Carefree Clothes for Girls Sew-a-long, Month 5
This month for the Carefree Clothes for Girls Sew-a-Long, we sewed the dress with quilted bodice. It is pretty much identical to this dress that we made for month 2, but with a quilted bodice. Hence the name. This was one of my top 2 favorite things from this book, so I was excited to…
Designer Knock-off
Well, I don’t know if BCBG really counts as a designer, but the price certainly qualified ($400). Here’s the story: My brother-in-law sent me a link to a dress he really wanted to buy for his wife as a present for their 1st anniversary, “because she would look so beautiful in it”. (I know, awwwwww….gag….