The Imaginative Seamstress

In the beginning I found an amazing looking pattern and showed it to my sister who was playing with the idea of making her own wedding dress (with my help of course). She loved the pattern and so we ordered it. We also decided that the bridesmaids (Anna and I) would use the same patten but change the style a bit and make ours shorter. This would he a bit tricky since the pattern only came in one size and it was the Bride's size.  The pattern showed the bride's dress having a lace overlay in the picture, and so naturally this is what we thought we were going to do for Isabel's gown. When we arrived at Joann's and Isabel saw the sparkly fabric they had she was immediately drawn to it. Our plan quickly changed and formed into a new one. The brides maids were to be decked out in RED, oh my! It didn't hit me until we had my dress mostly done that I was going to have a RED dress! I'd never had a red dress before..unless you count the one time I wore one fo...

 This isn't really a sewing/project post but since it was related to items you'd use in crafts I figured I'd post it here too :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In October my sister Isabel got married. It was a lovely outdoor wedding with the reception in a great big barn! There were three photographers that day, and they got some great shots! My husband, Josh, was one of the photographers. The day after the wedding (Sunday) Josh and I were looking through wedding pictures in the office. Our little daughter, Jubilee,  (12.5 months) was playing contentedly in the living room with a jar of buttons I'd given her. A little while later Jubilee came crawling in to see us, just as happy as ever. Shortly after Jubilee came in to see us, I went out to the living room (for some reason I can't remember..) and I screamed when I saw buttons scattered all over the floor! Josh came when he heard me yell, and I said "I have...

Two weekends ago I traveled out of town with my inlaws to see more extended family...which is not what I was scheduled to do that weekend at all! I was supposed to be spending Saturday getting my handgun carry permit, and I had completely forgot when it was. Going to the class would mean staying home by myself all weekend while Dear Hubby went off to see his family and do some scouting for a hunting trip. Well I was not going to stand for being left at home alone on the weekend. So on short notice I changed all my plans and packed to go! Saturday, hubby went off to the woods and the rest of the family piled in the van for a 2hr ride to Grandma's house. It was a great visit, one that I wouldn't have wanted to miss. Everyone had a fit over Jubilee, who had just turned a year old.  My Grandmother-in-love enjoyed showing us things she was preparing for a fancy tea party she was apart of. I took a pictures because I loved what she made as party favors! Take a look at these adorable...

Once upon a time my friend Jennifer wrote me an email asking if I was able to make her brother (a professor of physics) a doctorate robe. Well, I didn't know about that but assuming there wasn't much I couldn't do, I told myself, "sure, I could figure it out". Come to find out there are no decent patterns out there for them and the reason he was wanting one made is because they're terribly expensive. If he was going to have one he was going to have it well made. He's one of those that if he has to spend money, he's getting the top of the line in whatever it may be. Geoffery brought to me a robe he'd borrowed from a friend, so that I could make a pattern from it. I only had a few days with the robe before I needed to give it back to Geoffery, so I took a bunch of pictures and did my best to make a pattern. Here are the pictures I took of the borrowed robe...  The back   Inside the yolk. It seemed that there was felt to keep the nice shape ...