Pillow Case to Kayly's Dress With Shirring

I was looking around on Burdastyle and found this dress .  I told my husband this is too cute and I can totally make this for Kayly.  So, here it is.  Not really cute like the dress I saw but... oh well.  Atleast I didn't use my pretty pillow case.  I learn to use the ugly fabric or the ones I don't care for to practice.  Kayly isn't too happy when I asked her to try this on and take some pictures.  She was busy watching her movie and didn't want to miss any part.  So, no smiles at all.

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Cut up the pillow case

Use elastic thread

Draw the lines for shirring

Shirring

Almost done

Added the straps and tada

She was upset

the back

I asked her to wear her Cinderella headband and she smiled for me haha =)

Size 10 Skirt To My New Skirt

I found this at a super cheap price.  Guess where I got it from?  ;)

I always love the kind of fabric that has embroidery in it.  I looked at my closet and I only have 1 white pair of jeans/capris.  That's it.  Only 1 white bottom.  So I went on a search to look for white clothes and this is what I found.  It's summer time now and AZ is HOT !!!!!!  So this is perfect.


It's size 10 and that's too big for me.  So I took it in from the back.  I guess no one will look too much at the back and won't notice it if I don't tell them.  =)

Oh, and today I realized that my husband isn't a very good photographer.  =)

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Here's the close up of the fabric.

I took in total of 5 inches.

And ta-da !!!  It fits me.  I forgot to take a picture of the back.  When I wear it for real I will take more pictures. 

Still Sewing

We went cruising for 7 days so I didn't get any sewing done.  I'm still deciding if I should sew for my daughter more dresses or it's time to sew for me... 
I shortened 1 pair of pants for me, and took in the legs of the pants for my husband last night.  I'm going to list it here so I don't forget when I count how much sewing I did for this month.  The month is almost over and I haven't done much.  =(  Sad...

Men's button shirt to Kayly's dress

A co worker gave me his shirt because I told him it didn't look good on him.  Haha...  Believe me, I am honest and will tell if it's nice or ugly.  Actually, it wasn't this shirt that I told him it was ugly.  But he end up giving me 2 shirts, this one and the one that I called ugly.  It was so ugly that I don't think I will make a dress for Kayly with it.  It's just a sad color.

Am I mean ???

Maybe, but oh well.  This shirt came out OK, but why does Kayly look soooooo old in these pictures??????

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Don't want your clothes any more???

It doesn't hurt to ask right?

=)

If you got clothes that you are tired of, don't want to wear them any more, have a hole, ripped, some stains ... please donate them to me.  I can turn them into something for my daughter.  =)  Wouldn't that be great?  Nothing go to waste.  I've been making dresses for my daughter with Goodwill stuff, and could make something from the clothing that you don't wear any more.

Does this sound crazy?  I guess it doesn't hurt to ask but ... .I don't think any one will spend the postage to send something to me that they rather go to Goodwill and dump it there.

Mending ~ Alterations

Since I said this blog is to keep track of all the sewing I do.... I forgot to post this.  No pictures for these because my husband doesn't want to take pictures.  =(


- hemmed up 3 pairs of dress pants for him
- made the legs of the pants skinnier than what they were before - 2 pairs
- took in the waistband of the pair of pants that I just bought, and made the legs more tapered

...  that's it, but I want to make sure I count those =)

Another dress from men's shirt

I did this in 1 hour from start to finish.  I'm getting good at it.  I mean this dress only.  Remember I made the blue one from the men's shirt?  So now she has 2.

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