Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Surgical Hats... Surgical Hats... EVERYWHERE!

Now that our wonderful Thanksgiving week has gone, it is time to get to work. I have 14 hats to make asap! Luckily, these hats are fairly easy to make and I enjoy finding the material to use. I am making a Zebra print with Turquoise trim, a few Christmas patterns, and from there I will just have to find some more cute patterns!!

Here is a picture of the hats I have made so far!
There are two styles, one just elastic and the other ties in the back. I am working on a third style and will post pictures soon!!



Other than hats, I am working on a vest for my mother. I have never made anything from Faux Fur, so this is my first experience working with it. Will let you know how it works out!



Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Something New!

A friend of mine is a surgical tech at a hospital here and she (and her co-workers) has had the paper "shower cap" style hats made with cloth that they have worn in the past, but have not been able to find any recently. So I have been asked to make some! I tore a couple of old ones apart and made a couple! The cloth ones I have made are unique because they said you can usually only buy them in teddy bear prints, or solid colors, so I have made some fun ones for the girls and want to make some more fashionable ones for them. Needless to say my friend is pretty excited about them.


When my mother came in to town last week we went to Denver Fabrics, she found some material she LOVES. She loves her Chico's pants (the spandex/acetate fabric) but she can never find them in anything but black. At Denver Fabrics they have every color under the sun in this fabric. This is the first time I have ever worked with this material and I have loved making pants out of it! However, it does not iron well and will be difficult to make a Jacket/ shirt out of it when the time comes! She bought a TON of fabric to keep me busy for the next few months! I will post pictures as I get them done!

So this is a little dress I made for Scarlet about 2 months ago. It is a bubble skirt or you can make it without the bubble. I have made it both ways and it is just adorable. She can wear a long sleeve shirt under it now that it is winter...so it can work for any season!
I don't know why I did not tie the ribbon in a bow, but of course it makes a pretty bow in the back!














Right now I am working on one more interesting project...a friend of mine is having a Masquerade party for her birthday and she found a wonderful dress but felt like it was just a little too plain. So we decided it would be fun to give it a jagged (Tinkerbell) style hem. The dress is silk so it is proving to be a challenge but will be absolutely adorable!

There will be a lot of pictures in my future post as I get all these projects done, and I am starting my easter dress collection soon. Let me know if you have a princess in need of a beautiful, one-of-a-kind Easter dress!

God Bless and have a great day!
Angie

Friday, November 5, 2010

The Revolutionary War Dress


I finished the Revolution War style dress.

I could not find a pattern to fit the mold of what I figured a revolutionary war dress should be, so I had to modify a "Little House on the Prairie" style dress and make it a 1776 era dress.
The pattern I went by had the dress with a high collar attached to the bodice, so instead of adding the yoke, I simply left it out and sewed the bodice front to the lining and left the yoke off. I then had to make an over-skirt and figure out "where" to put it so that it would lay straight in the front center. I added the lace to the edging of the over-skirt and bottom. I then took a scrap piece of white material I had and measured it to fit over the shoulders. At first I was going to sew this in to the bodice, but after contemplating for a little while, I decided that it would be better to just keep it separate.
The girl I made this dress for will be doing a Civil War report next year that she will need a dress for. She wanted to know if we could use the same dress. Therefor, I left enough material at the hem to let it out up to 2 inches, and I made the dress a size bigger and then fit it to her (without trimming the excess) so that next year I can let out the hem and the bodice as necessary. I plan on making a lace yoke to fit under the bodice and maybe taking the over-skirt off and simply turning it opposite, cutting length off of it to make it a bow in the back with a draping in the front. I want to make a big hoop skirt to really bring the skirt around like Civil war era dresses. I might have to add some trimmings too.
I am very excited to see a picture of her in the dress. She loved it when we had our last fitting!

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