I finally took some pictures of Lydia's Sea World dress that I was making before I left for vaction. This is the dress I have named the "dress-of-too-many-appliques" I had orignaially intended to do 11, but ended up doing 14 instead. I think lack of sleep affected my good judgement! LOL! Lydia and I loved the way it turned out though, and she got so many compliments at Sea World! One of the CMs there asked me to make HER one!
Ok, now here are too many pictures of the dress of-too-many-appliques!
Funny story, sort of... once I was all done with the dress, I realized I had forgotten to make the sea horse!!!!!!

so... I had Arminda stitch it out for me, and then when we got to Florida, I sewed it on. Unfortunately, I wasn't thinking and grabbed white thread instead of purple or pink! But, thanks to my mistake, Lydia decided that the dress could be "turn aroundable" (she said that reversible would have to mean she could wear it inside out...)
Here are the appliques on the side:
and the appliques on the other side:
This picture is for you
Andrea!
I posted this on Facebook, so I'll be lazy and copy and past it here:
If you accidentally don't get your hoop hooked on correctly, and you have to redo part of your applique, a cute little bow makes a nice cover up for your mistake. Not that I would know....
Arminda had originally asked for a dress just like Lydia's, but after seeing how long it took me to make all the appliques, she said she only wanted a t-shirt with Heather's Believe design and a headscarf with two appliques on it..
The manatee was on the other side, but I didn't get a picture of that.
My sweet babies
I forgot to mention, this is the Simply Sweet frankenpatterned with the Scallopini (both by our friend CarlaC). I didn't line the scallops because I was afraid it would get too hot. I did a rolled hem with my serger instead. Lydia didn't complain about it being too hot, so I guess it worked!