Emily's santa sack complete....
A take away laundry bag for our trip home....
And a last minute gathered skirt for juliette made from a recycled head scarf!
Happy Christmas!
My friend Tara called me a couple of weeks ago and asked if I could make her daughter, Clodagh, another christmas dress. I made her this one last year.
I love how it turned out. You can find details about the pattern here. It's such a sweet pattern. The fabric is from Spotlight and is a Japanese cotton. I hope Clodagh loves the dress and that she enjoys wearing it on christmas day!
Ooh...that fabric looks familiar. I used it to make Emily's poppy doll's dress also. I finished the doll last night and Emily is now 'one of the girls' with her own doll like her sisters. But she won't be meeting her doll 'til christmas morning.
Again, I used Fiona's lovely pattern. You can purchase it from her shop.
Linking up with My Creative Space today.
These bathers are Juliette's handmade gift from us for Christmas. I'm really happy with how they turned out and can't wait to see them on her. I have adjusted the leg line at the front since this pic and made the whole front gusset section narrower as I was being a bit hesitant to cut too much originally. I actually just traced them from an old pair of Isabella's. There is no elastic in the legs, I just used the lycra as binding at about half stretch. I bought the stripey lycra from Rathdowne Remnants - they have a great lycra and stretch collection.
I whipped up these little Christmas bibs for Emily and her little (big) cousin Poppy (little/big because she is older than Emily but little to me!). The old fashioned Christmas prints are from Spotlight - purchased as single fat quarters. I made some bunting with the leftovers which is hanging on our mantle piece (but didn't photograph well).
Bib backs.
Emily's poppy doll is in progress. This is the seventh one I have made! I just have to finish the hand stitching and then dream up her little outfit. I have also promised to make Isabella a pink dress as she is slightly lacking in the dress department since she is growing too fast. The benefit of having three girls is that my hard work at the sewing machine gets loved three times! Juliette is in dress heaven with her own dresses and Issie's hand-me-downs.
Our matchbox Christmas calendar is up again...I can't believe they all survived in tact from last year!
I am linking up here today after a bit of a hiatus. What are you making for Christmas?
I have been sewing a few bits and pieces getting ready for Christmas. I decided just to make the girls one thing each. Isabella will be getting this dress. The pattern is from Ottobre magazine (Three way dress, 3/2009) one I have used a few times and is very easy. I haven't been happy with the ribbon tie through the neckline on previous dresses as you have to keep adjusting the placement of the sleeves. This time I threaded elastic through the neckline and just added the ribbon bow afterwards. This also makes it easier to put on and take off.
The floral fabric was on the $5 per metre clearance table at spotlight. Bargain. I looked for matching royal blue ribbon but couldn't find any, so decided to jump on the neon bandwagon and add some pink. The fluroescence doesn't really show up in the photo but will appease my pink loving 4 year old!
I am hoping to sew Juliette some stripey bathers and a poppy doll for Emily (as well as her Santa sack for her first Christmas!).
Here is a photo of Juliette taken a year ago in the last three way dress I made. She actually wore it today with some flares as a top! They are growing too fast!
