Posted on Mar 27th, 08 at
8:40 am under Crafts
27
Mar
With Khéna’s “weird” shape… finding pants that fit has been a task to say the least… I knew I could make some but I was a bit scared of patterns… but I finally decided to try… however… just like pants don’t fit… patterns don’t fit… so I found a pattern that I had bought at the thrift store and like I get the general idea from a recipe… I got the general idea from the pattern and made my own…
Because I didn’t know how it would turn out I used an old pair of Simon’s pants for the material… I am pretty happy at how they turned out and they fit him so well and look so comfortable!
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Posted on Feb 4th, 08 at
2:14 pm under Crafts
4
Feb
I just finished this last night (well… I still have the hem to do but otherwise it is finished)
I LOVE this dress… it took me about 6 hours in all over the span of about a week….
I wasn’t sure about how it looked when I just had it on the hanger but when I asked Colin to try it on I saw that it turned out better than I hoped… I will be putting it on my new website to sell, along with a new skirt that I made…
shirred back…
decorative topstitch…
yes… I used my son to model… lol
and the skirt… (again needs to be hemmed)
back with elastic and a tie…
eta… they have already been sold… and I have had requests for others!
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Posted on Oct 30th, 07 at
4:33 pm under Crafts, Photos, The Kids
30
Oct
I sewed the Capes and the swords and Sheild…
and Colin hasn’t decided what he wants to be yet…
ok… and I know that I am sharing tons of
pics… but I have to share these two also…
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Posted on Oct 16th, 07 at
9:41 pm under Crafts
16
Oct
I really wanted to sew a skirt for my good friend Gen…
There was a lot of trial and error in this one but I finally finished it and I am really happy with the result…
It is a 6 piece gored skirt with knit waist, made with chocolate corduroy and an embroidered linen…
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Posted on Jul 3rd, 07 at
9:57 am under Crafts, Shameless self-promotion
3
Jul
I finished another dress yesterday… and I am going to start working on a few skirts for adults to sell…
There is so much pressure in making clothes for others, but I love sewing and people seem to like the clothes that I make…
I don’t know if this little business will become something but it is something that I enjoy doing… I am getting my site ready and will put a few things up in the next few weeks…. and then I will be putting things up as I make them…. no customs and no pressure for me…
The clothes that I make are all pattern free… like with recipes I don’t like the constraints of a pattern..
so here is the latest…
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Posted on Jun 18th, 07 at
8:38 pm under Crafts
18
Jun
A friend of mine’s daughter had her 5th birthday party over the weekend… I didn’t know what to buy her but wanted it to be special… even though my friend and I don’t see each other often anymore we met at the birthing center when pregnant with our first babes and we learned a lot from each other and shared a lot of laughs and some tears…
So I made this on Friday….
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Posted on May 27th, 07 at
10:39 pm under Crafts
27
May
I just finished this tonight..
Front (I shortened it a bit after the pic was taken) and side
it has a large spin!
and the back…
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Posted on May 18th, 07 at
12:20 am under Crafts, Unschooling
18
May
I read about this on a message board so I decided to give it a try…
Started the oven at 300F and started filling 4 muffin cups with broken crayons… 10 minutes later the crayons were melted… we watched (or tried to watch) though the oven door to see the crayons melt and Xavier thought it was cool…
Then we took them out and looked at them a bit before we put them in the freezer to set…
They looked really cool but I am not really hapy with the way they turned out… I am not sure that it was because the broken crayons were cheap… or we did something wrong but they didn’t colour much…
It was still a cool experiment though… and I think that I will be trying again with some good old crayola’s…
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