Sew Grateful

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.

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!

Posted by Angie at 8:19 PM 0 comments    

Labels: bubble, bubble dress, chico's, chico's pants, dress, easter, hem, pants, surgical hat

I finished the Revolution War style dress.

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Labels: 1776, blue, Civil, dress, lace, red, revolutionary, white

What can I say, I am a horrible Blogger!

First I am just gonna post a few pictures and I will tell you what they are for!















These pillows turned out awesome! A friend of mine called me one day and said she had bought the bedroom set for her soon to be baby's room and there was a valance that she could not use and asked me what I thought we could do with them! So we came up with the idea of buying some matching material and making pillow cases out of them. So we tore off the panels of the valance and sewed them on top of the material and made little pillow cases.

If you have never made pillow cases before, it is truly one of the easiest things you could ever do! You just place the pillow on the ground and with a measuring tape measure from one side of the pillow to the other by touching the floor with the tape on each side, then you cut the material that size. This will give you plenty of room for seams, and makes a customized size pillow case! See, I told you it was easy!

Another thing I was working on before Christmas was matching dresses for a little girl and her doll! They turned out adorable. Although I have not gotten a picture of them in it yet that I can post, The dress it self is cute!

It has little ladybugs on it! This is the back view with a
small little bow. Now I have never sewn a ribbon on to
a dress, wait I am lying! I have sewed ribbon on, but
never silky shiny ribbon. It is a lot different than a
textured ribbon because you can see each little stitch.
The challenge is just being consistent with it! Keeping
the ribbon in place and the stitch line even! Phew! Rough! :)




This next outfit is a Baby Shower gift. You know, I always kid myself when I look at a picture of something I want to make. I do either one of two things, I think it looks easy and ends up being confusing...or think it is going to be SOOO hard and it ends up being SOOOO easy! This was one I underestimated! It ultimately was very easy to make until I got to the lining and skirt attachment. You have to keep right on the previous stitch line from the right side of the material while attaching what is underneath. In other words, you are sewing something you can not actually watch to make sure it is attaching. I have done this before on shirts for myself, but never for such a small little outfit that turned out to be quite a challenge.

I also tried to make a hat. Now this was my first sttempt at making hats! I can say I failed miserably and had no desire to try it again. Much like quillting, it takes way too much prescision and concentration that I do have! I wish I did but I do not. The hats brim was very uneven so I just chose to not give it to her! :)

My newest adventure is making clothes for myself. I LOVE POLKA DOTS! So you might get a little dizzy looking at my next post, I am sure it will be full of them!
:) See ya next time!
Angie

Posted by Angie at 11:57 AM 0 comments    

Labels: baby, cases, doll, dress, ideas, ladybugs, pillow, valance

I had some material I never used for around 5 years. I only had a quarter of a yard so I was very limited on what I could use it for...then I thought it would be adorable in this dress with black tights, a black long sleeve shirt and pink boots! So that is what I did, and My daughter loves her "puppy dog" outfit! Finding the buttons were quite challenging...where I am from there are only a few stores that carry a good selection of buttons!

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Labels: dog, dress, girls, pink, scottie, scotty

I had a pattern that required a lining of material inside. So I started thinking about how you could use that to make a reversible dress.
I used the same material on both sides, I just reversed the layout of material. The thing you should remeber when making this outfit is the buttons; you have to use smooth buttons so that they will not scratch her when turned either side out!
There are a couple of things I love about this idea. The first is that if your daughter eats and gets the outfit dirty you can then just flip it over and not have to worry about shoes, bows, or any accesory matching. I also like the idea that you are buying two outfits for only a small price more of the price of one.
Let me know what you think and I will post another picture of the reverse side later!

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Labels: dress, pattern, reversible, sewing