I am almost done, I promise!
Megan had been asking for some "button up flannel pajamas" so I made a matching set for her and Emily. I used CarlaC's bowling shirt pattern and just extended the arm length. It was very easy!
Thanks for letting me share!
Love your jammies! Great idea to make use of the same pattern and just add length!
I was thinking about you and this dress the other day
I'm so glad you posted pictures. I'm glad the bows worked so well for you. This dress is ADORABLE. I've been anxious to see the feliz with a smocked insert and it really came out great!!! Thanks for sharing the pictures.
I was hoping you would see the pictures. I was going to email them to you had you not popped in.
The bows are adorable. We got lots of compliments on them. I hope to get some more soon.
I got my sewing machine today so I'm trying to work on several "half finished" projects. I finally hunted down the last piece of bias tape I needed. Three stores later and I'm done with Lily's Small World skirt. I'll eventually get her to model it. I need someone to make some bows for me now! I bought ribbon but I sit and look at it and think maybe not. Have I mentioned I love finding a shirt I like and then making a skirt to match it?
front of shirt:
back of shirt:
Oh my goodness! I always love the stuff you make but this is just stunning!
Please oh please tell us where you found the little faces on the fabric? Did you embroider those or are you just a pro at picking fabrics?? I am so horrible at it!! I hope you don't mind CASE'ing.... or butchering of your cute outfit!!
I can't begin to imagine how long a patchwork skirt takes!
Love the jammies, I used the same material to make robes for my boys for Christmas!
Sorry about the weird picture, my kiddos wouldn't hold still long enough to take a good one!
cute boys.. and robes too!
I made my Wild Minnie dress for Becca's Big Give. She requested it. I was worried that the ruffles on the back would be uncomfortable sitting on all day, so I modified it so that it was just strips. I think it turned out pretty good that way. Plus, that's a lot easier than ruffles!
I like these sleeves a lot better than the ones Lydia picked out for hers!
Front:
Back no sash:
Back with Sash:
Looks great! I love the back. I wouldn't have thought to do that.
Okay I have been reading everything I can get my hands on about this Feliz dress pattern, because the directions are paltry and I am a directions girl! I can sew or cook just about anything if I have good directions, with out them, well it's a bit like not having a brain. (unless I make the recipe from scratch!) Anyway, i digress....
I have only found 2 tutorials online- 1 by Studio Tantrum and I find the photos blurry and pitiful.
and the other by Trillium, a blogger, hers a better.
So, I have the pattern all traced and cut out onto PatternEase and I layed my overdress fabric out on my dining room table. With my pelvic bone not cooperating I have to do this is stages. Tomorrow will be cutting out fabric.
I am also going to pull out my camera and try and do a pic tutorial, so if anyone else on here needs it, it will be available- that's assuming I get thru this!
I was so stressed with my first Feliz. I used the studio tantrum tutorial. I ended up just trying to use as much common sense as I could because I felt the tutorial was a bit lacking. The pictures were more helpful though. The second Feliz was alot easier than the first.. goodness. Just makes you want to make the same dress over and over so that you don't have to "learn" a new pattern. Good luck with your sewing. I hope you don't stress as much as I did about it. I still haven't posted the first one I made.
I know you had your question answered, but I can't figure out what you are going to do. I have only used my embroidery machine to do the embroidery, not the applique, so that's probably why I'm lost! I'm just wondering why you are printing the designs out to applique them on your machine? I'm tired and I think I'm missing something!
I bought a couple designs from them yesterday and they are really cute!
I posted yesterday hoping someone might be able to help me figure out how to print out the designs I downloaded from Pegasus on my computer printer so that I could cut them out, put the fusible web on them and then hoop and applique them. I have appliqued before but I am not as good as all of you!! The tutorial was wonderful, btw. As are the bookmarks. I went through all of them yesterday too.
Hopefully someone can help me?
Do I need to have something to unzip the designs that I downloaded? I can save to my memory stick, put it in the embroidery machine and then it will stich out but then I would have to cut that out as a template to cut the applique. It seems like a waste of fabric and thread.
What am I doing wrong? Do I need something like embird or PE-Design to open the design and print it out as a template? Help???
Thank you!
*EDIT* found my quote.
When you applique by machine you don't have to cut your fabric before you applique. I could imagine it being quite difficult that way.
Lynnie Pinnie's website has a great tutorial.. just scroll down.
http://lynniepinnie.com/store/catalog/conditions.php
I do alot of machine applique. Most important part I would say is making sure you trim to the stitching line before your tackdown step.
The directions in the bookmarks are for doing applique freehand on the sewing machine. You don't need to print a template and cut your fabric out on the embroidery machine.
Once you unzip the file using winzip or whatever you choose pick the file format that your machine uses. Mine uses .pes so I would pick that one. Next you would open the usb stick under My Computer and drag that file or copy and paste into that. To print it out just for to have a reference to look out you would need some sort of embroidery program that can read the file to print it out.
Let me know if you need any help. You could pm me if you like.
The tutorial is great though. That should get you started.
BTW Lynnie Pinnie designs are great! I bought a ton of them when she had a 75 percent off sale.
You know I am looking for someone to make a sweater for Jenna and I am willing to trade for a custom outfit.
I am looking for someone to make this sweater for Jenna.
That is adorable? Where did you find the pattern for that??
I can knit... surely crochet must be easier???
I posted earlier, but does anyone have an idea for a stroller blanket/bunting made out of fleece?
I am pretty sure I have seen these in Simplicity and McCalls. Did you check those? I saw somewhere that Simplicity pattern 9965 is a bunting. I think it is a christmas tree or something like that. I would think they'd have regular ones too. I just googled "stroller bunting pattern" and found this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/3712--Baby-SLIN...temQQimsxZ20090113?IMSfp=TL090113111004r19930
Is that what you are looking for?
Thanks!
for sharing her templates. Ethan loved this shirt. He had to put it on right away and wear it on the way to Florida. I used Glow in the Dark Thread around the moon.
But I had to post and say THANK YOU for sharing and all of you guys have beautiful stuff!
You could try sending her a PM.
