I am most definitely not a designer. I love clothes that mix up a lot of different colors and patterns, and still look so put together. Actually arranging that kind of outfit ... yyyyeah. Not my talent. Looking at a bolt of fabric and picturing what I can do with it - not so much. But these blogs and pictures are getting me thinking that maybe I can figure it out at least a little bit.
These are the dresses and skirts that have really struck me this week:
original post: Sew Together - I saw it on Project Run and Play
The bottom hem of this skirt is 23 feet. Oh. My. That is a truckload of fabric! I love love love the color-block tiers - I really want to learn how to do that. Maybe not 23 feet worth of it, but it is definitely on my to-do list.
original post: See Kate Sew
I was just clicking back through old links on this blog because it was a new one for me, and stopped cold on this dress. There's a tutorial for it and it looks so easy! It's a simple and plain dress - no busy prints (not that there's anything wrong with prints of course - I love them), but this is really fancied up into a piece of art. Art that you wear.
original post: MADE
Ah, Dana. The blog that started it all. Seriously. Dana got me thinking I could actually sew for my kids, and here we go. Her daughter Lucy is the exact age, and appears to be the exact same size, as my oldest. So anything I see on Lucy in the pictures, there's a good chance it will look exactly the same on SM. This says SUMMER to me, in lots of ways. Where's the seersucker?
original post: Craftiness is not Optional - she was a guest on See Kate Sew's ruffles month/pleat week. (Hello? A whole month devoted to RUFFLES? Awesome!)
I'm starting with skirts for my girls ... this would certainly be a way to fancy them up! And oh look - while I was finding the original post to credit this picture, I came across a tutorial on this blog on how to make a tiered skirt. BOOYAH! Now I just need the right fabric combination for one! Or two or five ...
original post: Hopeful Threads. I don't remember how I found this blog, but what a great idea - to sew things with the purpose of donating them to the needy. This month, they're sewing for Dress a Girl Around the World, and that's what this particular dress is going to.
I have found my Independence Day dresses for my girls ... if I could just find that fabric! It's perfect. I'd make it for all 4 of my girls. There's a link in the post to a free pdf pattern for it, which I have already downloaded.
3 comments:
So what do you have against Pinterest? Those are some lovely dresses. I like the white ruffle one best. Go you and your sewing ambition! Someday I will be begging you for pointers. For now, I am impressed if I manage to make dinner.
I love the first outfit with the lovely large blue skirt paired with the shirt with the wonderful applique.
I love pinterest, I admit. But I haven't done anything with it in months (not until they change their underwriting policies dealing with private-public property).
You will be incredible at this. You always are. Anything you set your mind too you do well.
My thing-against-Pinterest is their issue with crediting proper sources that I've read about recently. They haven't taken any corrective action - apparently, they've just ignored everything that's been said about that. So they won't get my participation.
And as for that making dinner thing ... I don't. Adam does. HA!
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