At the end of January, we will be going to Disney World and having breakfast with the princess'. I want a really nice dress for my daughter and want to make this dress. Or something close to it. I have never really made my own pattern, but I've done enough sewing, that I don't think I'll have too much troubles. I thought I'd ask if anyone has some good advice for me before I get started. I really want the dress to turn out well.

I have a disney hoodie that says Grumpy on the front with Grumpy dwarf on the back. I wanted to do the same thing on this pink hoodie with Lumpy Space Princess.

I'm really pleased with the end results. But I'm thinking of putting one of her phrases underneath, I just can't decide which.
I'm up for suggestions.

So here is the Hello Kitty quilt I just made. I bought the panel and it was so big, I decided to just buy 1m for the back and quilt it.
It was really easy to quilt. I did the entire thing in a few hours. Blue on the front, pink on the back and I just traced the pictures.
I added some grass blades and clouds in the empty spaces to quilt it together a bit better, but there wasn't much empty space that needed it. I used scrap fabric for the binding and finished the whole thing in about 7 hours.
Sorry the pictures aren't great.

These are the place mats I just finished sewing. They are from a pattern called Flower Petal place mats.
I had a lot of fun making these. I used 3 different ombre fabrics to get 6 completely different place mats.

So I have just discovered this great sewing foot that works on any machine, except Bernina. You need an extension.
The Curve Master Presser foot allows you to easily sew curves. Mine's in the mail.
Here's the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iso3C-G0Q_8
Now I really want to try a double wedding ring quilt. Does anyone know any good patterns?

I would love to see a swap with the new Disney princesses. I love them. The dolls are super hard to get, $75 and not that nice from the pictures I've seen online.
The dresses are fantastic though, and I think would be a lot o fun to make.

I crocheted this Skirt for my daughter. It was an old UFO that I just finished. I got the pattern out of a Crochet Today magazine and used Patons Decor yarn. It was very easy, but I decided to use a scrap piece of 1" elastic folded in half for the waist and it ended up being a bit of a pain. Over all it turned out well and I wasn't sure about the yarn at first, but I like how the pattern came out. I also like that it will fit her for a long time and I can go back and add length at any time.

Another charity project. The theme was Oriental. I was given a list of ideas like place mats and green tea. So I decided to make a tea cozy and coasters. The tea cozy is adjustable to fit almost any size teapot and the coasters have pockets on one side for tea bags and everything has Insul-bright inside to keep tables safe and tea hot. I had bought two matching fat quarters for $2 each at the creative Stitches show when it was in town. I had no idea what to do with them, so when this came along I put them to good use. It really is fun to just go into your scrap box and make something in an evening.

This is a Picnic set I did for a charity event. It has matching picnic blanket/table topper, napkins and carry all bag.
The candy quilt has some dimension in it through the wrapper ends. As well as the little bows on each candy. It was really fun to pick out the colors. The multi-colored & black fabric is from Ikea. I got the quilt and bag pattern from a McCall's quilting magazine I got from the library. I loved the candy pattern, but would never really use it myself. So the charity gave me a good excuse to make it and go buy some new fabric.

It would be fun if you had a swap where everyone made 10 or more charms depending on how many people join and then send each charm to someone different so that everyone gets an entire charm bracelet with all the charms made by someone different. Each person would choose a theme and color for their bracelet so their charms match. It would be fun too because all the charms would be made from something different.