Butter and Honey

Looking Forward To Sewing!

I have material for four dresses that I need to make -

The red check and the green doggie fabrics are for daughter.  The two pink fabrics on the right are for the daughter of a friend.

Sewing is a lot like homeschooling for me:  I love the planning and getting the materials, kind of grin and bear it through the actual work - making changes and adjustments as needed, and then delight over the finished product!

I can't wait to cut into these!!

Some End of Summer Sweetness

Here's a bit of summer sweetness - a dress for Miss M's daughter, Little Miss K.

Made in a soft pink seersucker, with cap sleeves and just-right pockets.  I added a little swirl stitching to the top of the pocket edge, and finished the bottom hem with a scalloped stitch.  And once again, I altered the pattern so that the bodice is completely lined and no seams are exposed.  I also did french seams on the skirt.

A Set of Aprons Finished

I sew for others, and this is a set of aprons ordered by Miss M for she and her daughter.  I love the little petit four fabric.  I think they turned out very well! 

They are all folded up, with the little matching doll apron on top.

I've also made an apron for my wonderful Sister-In-Law - but mailed it before I could take a picture.  Here's the fabric I used, a lovely lavendar watercolor  --

Some Needed Sewing

I've been finally sewing the past few days.  I say finally because I've had some projects that needed doing a LONG time ago and I'm finally getting around to them.  But, better now than never - or in two months when I had planned to take my sewing on vacation, since that seems to be a time when I can really focus and get so much more done than when I'm at home.

Anyway, my first two projects were some needed clothes for my daughter.  We've had a favorite dress patterns that i've used for years, but she is getting older and growing out of it - as in now she's a little too mature to wear it.  So I'm on the search for some new favorites.

A quick and easy one was this skirt - McCall's pattern 5310

 The next was a cute dress that turned out incredibly sweet with this great fabric I purchased a few years ago - Simplicity pattern 3860

With just a little eyelet ruffle sewn inside the bottom hem, it is perfect and definitely a pattern that I will be using again!

(Man, you wouldn't believe how long it took me to figure out how to put these pictures into this post!  How in the world am I going to figure out how to add stuff to the sidebar??)

I'm finishing up a set of aprons now and will post those as soon as they are finished!