Showing posts with label holiday sewing; embroidery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holiday sewing; embroidery. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

The Mouse Dress


A year or two ago, one of the gals over at Sew Forum made this delightful little Minnie Mouse dress. I loved what she did and I totally copied it! My girls are all grown and I can't say that I'm around little ones too much so I copied her dress since I have no idea what Minnie wears anymore. I used my favorite pattern, Claire, from Portobellapixie.  The red and white polka dot fabric came from Joann's and the white and black fabric are Kona cotton. I hope Kayla love this dress as much as I do. I'll be going to visit her soon, so I'm hoping she'll model this for me.       

Saturday, January 1, 2011

January and February Pillowcases

Here are two more installments of the Pillowcase of the month club. The alphabets that I used where Let it Snow from Jolson's and Valentine Curlz from 8 Claws and a Paw. I loved the fabrics for the snowman pillowcase but I fell short on the thread color. I wanted her name in purple. With so many spools of thread, how does one not have the perfect purple?


Saturday, October 23, 2010

Double Layer Skirt: This Time Halloween

The Barbie skirt went together fairly easily so I decided to make another skirt. This time I used some Halloween fabric that I found at Hancock Fabrics. The orange fabric is from my quilt stash.

I decided to make this skirt a tad smaller than the Barbie skirt. I tried to remember Kayla's waist measurement. I think I overestimated that measurement by at least an inch.

Both designs are from Planet Applique. I really do shop at a multitude of shops but I just seem to connect with PA designs a little more.

Trick-or-Treat Bags

I'm a little disappointed how these bags turned out. I purchased the bags last year and never got around to the embroidery.

I wanted to do a glow-in-the-dark design for the nephews. I felt that the ribcage would be perfect for glow thread. My machine did not like this thread. I used Coats & Clark brand. I hadn't heard anything negative about the thread. I knew that there were people who didn't like their embroidery thread but nothing on the glo thread. I decided to try it. Unfortunately, I had severe thread loops while stitching the design out. I really should have completed one more rib cage bag, but was frustrated with the two that I did. So my nephew Matthew will get the short end of the stick. The "glo" part of the glow thread really does work. I don't know how long the glow will last on Halloween night though.

Now for the witch bag. I'm not liking the placement on this. I was toying with the idea of putting a witch face about the skirt. I decided against it. Then I go and place the tutu netting to high up. I found some reflective tape in my stash. I honestly don't have any idea how I acquired that. Maybe from my mom. As you can see in the photo, the tape works really nice.

If you look really close at this picture, you can see the ribcage outline. The design shows up really nice in the dark, you can't really see it in the picture.

Both designs are from Planet Applique.