Liesel curtain dress

A friend of mine came to me and wanted a special dress for her daughter's birthday.  Her daughter LOVES Sound of Music and she is going to take her to the play for her birthday. So what better dress than the "curtain" dress that Liesel wears in the movie.

There is a website http://www.edelweisspatterns.com/ that has created a pattern but it is an adult size. She posted a bunch of great pictures of her dress and the pictures she used to create her pattern.

  My friends little girl is a size 7.  So, I found this pattern that I thought I could adjust to make work for the size I needed.  I also used the pictures from http://www.edelweisspatterns.com/ 

 I found the fabric at www.fabric.com  It is not an exact match but I think that it works really well.  

The fabric looks like it has a woven texture but it is 100% cotton.  I thought this added to the "curtain" look of it.  The fabric that  http://www.edelweisspatterns.com/  used is from Michael Miller.

After all of my adjustments and changes here is the final product.  I hope to get pictures of her in the dress after this weekend!

These are the types of projects that I LOVE to do!  They are challenging and I get a kick out of doing something that is special and one of a kind!  I hope that you all like the finished product as much as I do.  

Update on pattern project

Since I posted "New Year, New projects" I now have three projects going with this pattern.  I will post all the options when they are finished!  I have also posted to my facebook page a great selection of new fabrics that I have found and am itching to do a project with.  Please take a look and let me know what I can make for YOUR Easter celebration!

New year, New projects!!

I am so excited to start a new year of projects!  As I was doing the yucky job of paperwork for my taxes I realized how many GREAT projects I did last year!  I LOVE doing projects for people, especially when it is for a special occasion.  I feel so honored to have a little part in their special event!  I get to start this year with just such a project.

I have had a friend from design school, who just had a baby girl, call me up and ask me to make her a special dress for a wedding that they are going to where the grandparents will be meeting their granddaughter for the first time.  My heart melts!  This happens to be an Irish themed wedding and mom wanted to make a dress that represented that and yet her little one could wear for a while.  So, here is a picture of the pattern and the fabric that I am going to be making for her.  you will have to wait for the final product to see that!

Can't wait to show you  (and her) the final product!!  Here is to a new year full of great projects!!

I promised that I would post pictures of the finished product, here they are....

Bloomers

The back buttons.
I just shipped this off yesterday to CA. and the wedding isn't till St. Patrick's Day so I will have to wait for pictures of the precious little Sara in this but so will you!!!

Tara's Ribbon trimmed jeans

I have a great friend who sent this to me and asked if I would feature her on my blog and after looking at her project I told her " OF COURSE!" I think this is a really cute and easy solution to a problem that I am sure many of you have out there!  Thanks, Tara Gibson for sharing your project! 

Ribbon-trimmed jeans

My little girl has a tendency to outgrow her pants in the length before she is ready to move to the next size in the waist.  A friend who has the same problem showed me what she did to lengthen her daughter’s pants.

                                      

My friend did hers using a hot glue gun. I happened to have some peel n stick fabric tape on hand so that is what I used. It’s like double sided tape for fabric.     

                                          

I did this in under 2 hours. Most of your time is spent doing the prep work: cutting the ribbon, cutting the fabric tape, applying the tape. Once you have your ribbons cut, apply squares of tape to the ends of the ribbons on the wrong side of the ribbon and leave the backing on. Lay out the ribbons in the order you want to place them.  Peel off the backing on one end of the ribbon and press the ribbon onto the outside of the pants.

                                                          

Next, peel off the backing from the other end and press it to the inside of the pant leg.                                                                       

Do this all the way around the pant leg until it looks like this:

                                                          

Next, apply a band of ribbon all the way around to cover up the exposed edges. I applied the adhesive to the middle section of the band and pressed it to the front and then flipped the pants over to apply adhesive to the remaining pieces and overlapped them on the back.

 Please give me some feed back on what you think about this project and if you have any ideas that you would like featured on this blog send them to be directly and I will see what we can do.

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t shirt scarf- I saw this on pinterest and I had to make one of my own!   

I wasn't sure that it would really work but think that it turned out pretty good!  What do you think?

Modeling the new outfit

Emily wanted to try her new outfit on for daddy so I grabbed the camera!

 The skirt is longer on her than most of her others but I like it this length!

Valentine outfit finished

After my last post I went to the quilt shop and picked out some fabric that I thought looked like valentines day but that Emily could wear for the spring/summer too.

 Here is what I came up with.

Then I got this shirt at Target on clearance for under $3.00

Once I was done with the skirt I thought that the shirt was a little too plain and added these hearts to dress it up and make an outfit.

Here is the outfit.  I will post pictures of Emily modeling it tomorrow! I can't wait to see her in it!