Awww he sounds like a real sweetie!Thanks I am feeling pretty crappy still. But its to be expected. and, no he didn't go, only because I went to the dr first. He would have gone. He is off work because of the rain so he said he is gonna bring me a movie tomorrow and make me breakfast and clean up, and be gone before I have to pick up Georgia! and to think I was so nervous to go on that date with him. hehehe.
Aww you are so sweet, thank you!!!!First, your daughter is TOO cute! My 3 year old is a not so "girly" girl and I think she would love an outfit like this. I have what is probably a silly question, but I'm still pretty new to this whole sewing thing. Do you just sew the ribbon along the hem? Is it the same kind of ribbon you by in spools? Any guidance would be truly appreciated!
Thanks!
Laura
Aww, thank you so much!!! Yes, that is exactly what I did. I bought some of that ribbon (on a spool) and just stitched it over the hem. It was really easy and my DD just loves them and so do I.
I call it the hat fom Hell. It's adorable, and easy to put together, but the sizing is ridiculous! I made DD one - the first try was HUGE, the second try was tiny and the last one was still too big, but wearable.
Very nice hat. Carla is actaully a disser too. LouiesMom I think might be her ID name.
I want to say thank you. Thank you to everyone for your inspiration and hooking me up with the CarlaC patterns. and if anyone knows who Carla really is, please tell her thank you for me, thank you from the bottom of my heart. There IS hope that I can sew!
The kids wanted me to post these but then DS would hardly cooperate with the picture taking. Of course, he has asked a million times if I've shared it with you guys yet. Anyway, started this for DS at about 11pm on Monday night. The letters were a pain in the you know what. I really need to move to larger appliques.
Here is DD and her friend in the outfits. They were a huge hit at school. Sorry, you guys are probably sick of seeing this dress!
I did it! I actually made something using a pattern and it came out correctly. Well, almost.
As everyone else's children, DD is celebrating Dr. Suess this week. She brought home a note on Monday that they could wear a special hat on Friday for Dr. Suess day. Great, we do not have a red and white hat and I'm home sick. How to find one? Well, as I said, I am home sick, not interested in daytime tv so I'm on the Disboards. I love to browse this thread as y'all make some really great stuff. and I kept seeing this pic....
it finally dawned on me that maybe, maybe I could make something like this. I searched for a pattern and discovered that it is a CarlaC pattern. Y'all are always raving about her patterns so I finally decided to give it a try. It's not perfect and I had to redo a couple of things. But I did it and am willing to give it another try.
When Aly saw it her first words were "Oh you made me a Wildcats hat"
Yeah, okay, it is the same material I used for her HSM cheerleader outfit. Her brother had to explain to her that it was for Dr. Suess week.
I want to say thank you. Thank you to everyone for your inspiration and hooking me up with the CarlaC patterns. and if anyone knows who Carla really is, please tell her thank you for me, thank you from the bottom of my heart. There IS hope that I can sew!
Yay!! It looks great!! Keep going and post the results.Very pretty Linnette. Are you still not feeling better?sister
belle
Linnette
I love the red fish blue fish shirt and those girls are adorable.The kids wanted me to post these but then DS would hardly cooperate with the picture taking. Of course, he has asked a million times if I've shared it with you guys yet. Anyway, started this for DS at about 11pm on Monday night. The letters were a pain in the you know what. I really need to move to larger appliques.
Here is DD and her friend in the outfits. They were a huge hit at school. Sorry, you guys are probably sick of seeing this dress!
Thanks!! I think I started with the large on the hat, but it got sized waaaay down.
I haven't made a patchwork with squares yet. I do make tiered twirl tops though...
I usually use fat quarters when I make them and cut the strips from them. so the strips are usually 18 or 22 inches long - the width depends on the length I want the top/skirt. I think I've posted directions on how to make these, but I can PM you or post them again if you want.
The kids wanted me to post these but then DS would hardly cooperate with the picture taking. Of course, he has asked a million times if I've shared it with you guys yet. Anyway, started this for DS at about 11pm on Monday night. The letters were a pain in the you know what. I really need to move to larger appliques.
Here is DD and her friend in the outfits. They were a huge hit at school. Sorry, you guys are probably sick of seeing this dress!
sister
belle
Linnette
The kids wanted me to post these but then DS would hardly cooperate with the picture taking. Of course, he has asked a million times if I've shared it with you guys yet. Anyway, started this for DS at about 11pm on Monday night. The letters were a pain in the you know what. I really need to move to larger appliques.
Here is DD and her friend in the outfits. They were a huge hit at school. Sorry, you guys are probably sick of seeing this dress!
Here is my patchwork skirt. I took all of this time making sure the characters were placed perfectly in the center of each square. A lot of fabric gets wasted this way! As you can see, once it is gathered, you can't really see all of the characters well. I either needed to do bigger squares, or less, so they weren't gathered so much. Oh and DD hates the top. "It's white Mommy. It is not fancy enough."
Here she is "posing" again?!?! This may be her signature pose I am afraid
I have done one patchwork twirl skirt, and I don't like it at all. I did all of my squares 5"x5", and I think it looks too gathered, plus it lays funky...I just don't like it. It's a shame, because I like the look
Cute pose!! It looks like you have too many on the bottom row. I just doubled the amount of squares for each tier. The top tier I do twice the length of Jenna's waist, the second tier is twice that length and the next tier is twice the size of the middle tier. I only do three tiers, because after tier three I don't want to gather that much.
These are WAY adorable! Might I ask if you did the applique by hand or is it a machine applique? I recently sold my embroidery machine due to financial issuesand am trying to figure out how to do appliques. I Googled instructions but they are not great. I read you can make them from coloring book pages. Your work is stunning!
Thanks
