Christmas Day

Well, I made it through Christmas Day. I didn't have to work for too long. I was able to cook before and after, so I got all of my contribution to the dinner done. I've put up pictures of the dress I made for Tater Tot. I never did get a chance to try it on her...I just went by her measurments. Good thing it fit! The few days that I sewed on this dress it was in the 40's and 50's. Our average temps in Dec are ususally in the 60's....soooooo.....I made this corduroy dress to be worn with a white turtleneck shirt and tights. Well, who would have thought it would be near 80 degrees!!! Good grief! lol We had to switch things up a bit. Tater wore the dress with a t-shirt under it instead of the turtleneck. She had to keep the tights b/c we had no light weight little summer socks for her. lol oh well... She was proud of her dress, tho.
We had Christmas at my brother's house. Here he is on the front porch with Taylor. I love my brother...he's a cancer survivor. At 38 he was diagnosed with non-hodgkins lymphoma. He had three rounds of chemo and finally went through a bone marrow transplant. Those were tough times, but he's doing really well, now.

Tater wants to go cruising on the scooter.

More posing...I love the way they're looking at each other. lol

Merry Christmas!

I hope you all have a very merry Christmas today! Before I go to work, I'll leave you all with a few pics... Here I am practicing buttonholes on my new machine. (my new used machine) This is the one I won on ebay. I forgot I hadn't used it yet when I got under my Christmas dress time crunch. lol


Here is the finished dress. I think it's totally cute. I'll definitely make this pattern again. I'm not happy with the twin needle stitching on the spaghetti tubing, but I'll have to deal with that later. I'm also not sure that I lined the front correctly. I've put out a call to Cheryl since I see that she recently made one, too.

I'll finish with Lizzie...guarder of the floor scraps. She's quite a little helper. God Bless!

Cozy day

I've had such a cozy day today. I've spent the whole day in my sewing room watching Christmas movies and sewing the tater tot's dress. The only thing I was missing is a fire, but since it's 75 degrees here, that would be silly. They say a cold front is coming tomorrow and I say bring it on!

Here is everything laid out on my sewing table. I'm sewing the Lucy pattern, but since there is a pleat added to the front, I have to alter and trace the pattern first.

I'm using some of the Swedish tracing paper I recently bought.

I'm using the striped spaghetti tubing across the front yoke. I can't decide which piping to use around the front and back yokes.

Here is a shot of the back with the lining facing up and of the front with the pleat and the tubing placed across the yoke seam. I hope to make the button holes and sew on the buttons tonight. I'll save the hem for the next few days....

Decided

When I was going through my smocking stuff, I found a dress that I cut out a few years ago. It may be a little small for Tay, but I'm going to give it a go. I've decided to use the Santa and his sleigh plate on it.



I've cut out the white featherwale. This is Mary De by Children's Corner...

And I've decided to use the smocking plate from the latest issue of Sew Beautiful.
I bought these pink, green, and white beads but I'm not sure which ones.


And finally, I'm going to make a yoke dress out of the green featherwale. I'll probably put a version of these gingerbread men on it.

Soooo....that's my immediate sewing plan. Then I probably ought to get crackin' on the Cat's 'n Mice blanket I want to knit for my mom. Toodles...