This is a chey-ish dress, though I didn't use a men's shirt, I did it from scratch, I have yet to add the buttons but so far I can put it on her without them, so no need to cut it up for now.

This dress and yesterday's chey dress look kinda the same color on my camera. but todays is brown cotton and yesterdays was burgundy.

My batteries were on their last breath so I had to rush the pictures, no action shots.

Here ya go!




This is a retro pink brown trim that goes with the same fabric as the skirt I made recently!

I've been meaning to give the Cheytown dress a go for quite a while! So Tonight after deciding to put aside another project for a day or so, I thought hey what better time than now?

So I did!

I gave it a single ruffle on the top, though I think I will give it a second, taller ruffle for more coverage hehe. Still you can't deny the cuteness of a Cheytown style dress! Or the munchkins who wear it!

Don't mind the wrinkles, the shirt was kept balled up in a bag with other clothes! :O Don't mind the floor either, time to do a little cleaning hehe.

So I had this brilliant idea to sew a gorgeous soft tulle skirt, a simple affair with two layers of soft tulle (not the tutu kind, but extremely soft limp kind) and an underskirt layer of soft white jersey.

It started out well, but through my carelessness it ended up a little less wide than I'd hoped, so the skirt isn't as full as I'd wished. I guess it's still a fairly pretty skirt, but not what I'd pictured.

I haven't hemmed it yet, I'm trying to decide whether to cut it shorter or just hem it the way it is, or what to do with it! Right now it's shin length, after I hem it should be just below knee length. Or I can trim it a bit to be knee length.

Any ideas on prettying it up?

Well I had this fabric laying around forever because I scrapped the original project that I bought the fabric for. I finally decided to make a simple, pretty skirt! Hope you like it! I had a real fun time trying to get my daughter to model it for me, haha. She was more into running around and had just thrown a tantrum moments before, so these are the best action shots you're gonna get! 

I took a day off from finishing my daughter's birthday dress and I figured I should do something else...

So I took some awesome fabric from my stash and made her a rocking red long sleeved shirt for fall/winter.

It's just a lightweight cotton knit, but it'll do for layering. great under a hoodie!

Oh yea! don't mind the dark green thread. Ran out of black, I'll just use a black fabric pen to make it match up. haha

Here we are:




And a picture of her being fussy and wearing it before it was finished. She fell asleep before I hemmed and all and I'm too impatient to wait for her to wake up before I edited the pictures for posting hehe.



ta da!
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Morgan

Well I decided to make my little girl's birthday jumper, and since her birthday is in a couple weeks I thought I'd better get moving on it. Yesterday and today (She doesn't give me much time to sew, so I spread it out, I'm sure you all know what I mean) I sewed my butt off...

And got this!



It's just basic still, so there will be more embellishments and such. But what, is the question. Any suggestions?

Here's my daughter wearing it over another unrelated shirt that will most definitely not be part of the outfit. hehe



Sorry for the bad image quality, my camera keeps messing up.

Morgan

That's a great idea. I was thinking that it was a shame that her little feet were getting the occasional pulled skin and for some reason, no matter mow much I wash the floor she seems to pick up dirt.

I think it's possible. They would be a little shorter but I've found that they're pretty long anyway. I have to pull em right up to her butt to avoid any bunching on the legs.

Here's my idea on making them. Any thoughts?
I said "sew in little triangle"  you could cut a triangle but the sock would have to be folded. It needs to be like a pointed oval when opened up.

I went and bought four pairs of women's knee high socks at $3 a pop.

For the cost of buying one pair of babylegs, I made FOUR. Can't go wrong, I say!



Morgan

here's another quick tutorial and based on this exact top:

You will need the measurements, which means you may have to email your customer to get the measurements from her, unless you can find a detailed sizing/measurements chart for a five year old and work from there.Just always remember to add a little extra for the seams! (1/4 " or 1/2")



It's just showing the right shape just in case you don't have the pattern with you, and where the measurements will need to be placed to help you get the proper size.

If you have the measurements it'd take less than half an hour to draft the pattern, even for a very inexperienced drafter to get the basic pattern.

I hope that's clear, if you have any questions don't hesitate to ask!

Morgan

ps- in the large circle showing the armhole, there is a little "lip" going back up, it shouldn't be like that, your armhole will look more like a J-shape.

Okay let my start by saying that the hoodie still needs some bias binding on the hood and hemming of the sleeves and body piece, but otherwise it's finished. It's unlined, but then many RTW hoodies are too, these days. It's still good for indoors or slightly cool but not cold fall days. Oh yes! it needs a zipper, lol. But anyway.

The Peasant shirt is hemmed and ready to go, except that I want to tweak it a little, perhaps, add some elastic around the waist and sew another channel on the neckline so there's a little excess frill left over. It's also ridiculously large, lol. But that's they way it goes with peasant shirts I suppose, and it means it'll last her until next fall.




Both are baby blue and navy lightweight cotton knit. For $2 a yard you can't go wrong! I got 1 yrd of each and I still have enough material left over for one more project.

Morgan