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A Birthday Skirt for Abbi

Abbi, my niece, had a birthday coming up and I wanted to make her a fun skirt. Here's the sketch I drew up.

I decided to make the flower centers the pockets as well.



After I'd stitched the pockets I drew my skirt out on the fabric. The scrap of denim that I was working with was not wide enough so I just used it as an opportunity to add another design element to the skirt.




Hemming the ruffle with green wooly nylon. The ruffle was made from more scraps of fabric that were laying around! I used my ruffling foot to gather the ruffle. I LOVE my ruffling foot!



The same fabric as the ruffle was used to make the casing for the elastic.



Fabric that's not wide enough turns into a fun design element!




A skirt for Abbi!

A dress for Lyla Fae

I made this pink cotton dress trimmed with white piping for my niece Lyla Fae.

Here is a close up of the smocking plate I designed for this dress. I have fallen in love with Cast-on Roses!

A Sweet Little Baby Dress

This is a little dress I was commissioned to do for a friend last spring. When I was asked to create this dress I knew one of the new patterns I had picked up at the the February School of Art Fashion, #127 Baby Dress from Creations by Miche', would be perfect. It was made with white batiste and laces from Martha Pullen Company. The machine embroidery was also from Martha Pullen Company, their Ultimate Baby Layette cd.
I have used this pattern to make a dress for my youngest granddaughter and I have another one in process on my sewing table.
A sweet little dress for sweet little babies!

Here we are!

Finally, our blog is here :-)
This picture with Martha Pullen was taken at Serger I licensing.