Category: Dresses

  • I’m baaaack!

    I promised to return with the finished dress.  The Orange Extravaganza I blogged about here. Well it is done.  For a moment we thought that it would not be worn to my friend’s daughter’s grade 8 “graduation”, due to the teacher’s strike.  No teachers, no school, no  grade 8 “graduation” ceremony.  Now I don’t want…

  • The orange extravaganza!

    The orange extravaganza!

    A good friend and co-worker asked me to make a dress for her daughter’s year-end “graduation” from grade 8.  I have had experience working with her and her daughter before, making her a flower girl dress for a wedding.  I knew that there would be lots of alterations ahead for this tall girl.  But I…

  • Me-Made-May’14 the last post  :(

    Me-Made-May’14 the last post 🙁

    The Last Post … I feel like there should be a Bugle Call in the background! Monday, May 26 – something I made long ago, but still love today.  Very stylish with its princess seams, and very comfortable too! Tuesday, May 27 –  a border print skirt I also made long ago.  It is so…

  • Me-Made-May’14 (1st post)

    Me-Made-May’14 (1st post)

    This is so fun, being part of this Challenge!  But can I do it? I have no time to speed sew up some outfits like a “Road Runner” to fill up my month of May.  But I do want to take a serious inventory during this Challenge – what is really in my closet? Quite…

  • Don’t think so…

    Why would anyone make a dress with such big armholes that you could see everything inside and possibly right through the other side. Vogue V1379