Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Crocheted Dress



Many, many moons ago, before I had children or a man to make them with, I made this dress. My gage was off, so it turned out much bigger than anticipated. Also, I left it in my back window for too long and the part of it that was exposed faded in the sun. My husband thinks the faded part looks horrible, but I pretend its part of the artistic flair. She's only worn it once. . . to church when my husband was sick! She wasn't in the best of mood when I took this picture and wouldn't look at me!

Monday, August 23, 2010

Shirring

So I had seen clothes that had been shirred before and wanted to learn how to do it myself. Until the Sewing Dork posted this tutorial I had no idea how easy it was! So on a whim, I went out and bought a yard of fabric at 7pm and had 2 dresses ready for church the next day! My youngest turned 2 on the 8th and I wanted her to have a new dress. I didn't have quite enough fabric so I added some plain black on the sides. My younger daughter's dress has quite a bit more shirring lines than my older to make it tighter for the little lady who is still not on the growth chart!

Happy Birthday to my spunky Bug!

. . .who happens to have an equally goofy sister!