Fun Sewing Request

I got a request to make a few costumes for a fall festival a few weeks ago and while I couldn't make everything I was able to make 2 dresses. They couldn't decide on which dress style they wanted and asked if I could combined the styles.


This is a sketch I did before making the dresses its not the best, but it gives the general idea.

I wasn't able to get really good pictures of the dresses before I had to ship them; Due to a couple of days of gloomy/rainy weather but I was able to take a few.

 

After, several tries with the sleeve holes I was finally able to get them all shaped some what the same. I Have no idea how other people do it! Need less to say I don't think I want to make these style sleeves again. Not that I don't like the challange, but I spent a whole day messing with them then I needed to go to bed, so it took me more like a day 1/3 and they really are not fun to make. 

Civil War Oufit *Photo Shoot*

I made this civil war top & skirt a couple of years ago. Its just been sitting in my closet, so I decided to pull it out and do a photo shoot :) I got the fabirc at joanns (its cotton) and the pattern well..I have no Idea where the original is. My, sister copied it from a friends dress (years ago) and I don't know if her's was a copy of the original or not, but I copied mine from my sisters ;)

Dresses,Dresses and More Dresses!

I found this lovely etsy shop full of the most delicious dresses!

These first two dresses are my favorite.

Yellow isn't really my color but I like everything else about this dress.

Every girl should have a pink dress.

Nellie's New Dress

This dress turned out great as well, its a little shorter then I would have liked, but other wise I like how it turned out. If I make one like again though I would make the sleeves a little bigger, so that they droop over the sleeve band more. I spent hours on the collar because I scorched it 3 times! I scorched it then I got the brown stain out iron it again and it scorches...once I scorched it just continued to scorch. So, I had to cut out a new one. 

Tip to myself, once you scorch muslin save yourself some time and cut out a new one. 

If you click on the pictures you'll get a nice close up;)

Medieval Dress/ I Finally Finished It!

Remember, those couple of posts I did about making a medieval dress? Well, I had it mostly finished but I never finished the embroidery around the sleeves and top. I put the project on hold for a while and I finally finished it as of yesterday!  I love the color and how it turned out! The neck is a little too open, next one I make I'll have to shrink it some more. Unless, I do the closure in the back I'll have to make the waist a little bigger, because I can't get it passed the shoulders on my manikin!

This is the only the second time I have ever shot a bow, and well I didn't relize my elbow was sticking up like that till I saw the picture. I'm sure there are other things that I am doing wrong but O'well. 

Laura~Little House On The Prairie

I made this pioneer outfit a couple of weeks ago and I finally got around to getting pictures of it, last sunday. It was so nice out that we all were actually hot and now we're back to being cold, but hey at least we had 1 well 2, really nice days to remind us that summer is coming :)

After some photo editing

And we had a beautiful sun set to complete our photo shooting for the day.

Addy's & Kirstens New Dress's

Addy's dress seemed so plain, so I added seven white bows, that are made out of ribbon. I used three snaps in the back. I love the color of this dress though its hard to capture its correct shade of color. 

Kirstens dress came out well. I couldn't make up my mind about what to do with her dress, but as I started working on it adding lace, flower stitches, collar ect....everything just came together. The only thing I would like to change is the yellow buttons I think blue ones would look better, but all the blue ones I had weren't the right shade.