Mother-Daughter Skirt and a REASON TO CELEBRATE!

On a recent trip to Hobby Lobby I fell in love with a a beautiful print by Brother Sister Studio. I knew it was not me, but I loved the colors and the print and still bought some anyways, hoping that I will find a good home for it. The opportunity presented itself fairly quickly. I friend of mine was celebrating her birthday. I knew she would look great in it and she also has an adorable little girl. I had enough fabric to make a skirt for both of them.

This is the mom's skirt. I made the top band with smocking along with a thin elastic waist band. The smocking is about 4 inches long.

And a fun bouncy skirt for her daughter.

I added the triple top stitched line almost as an afterthought to both of the hems and I really like how it turned out. I also had a little bit of fabric left, just enough to make 2 more itty-bitty skirts and I gave the leftover fabric to one of the blog authors, in the hopes that she will make something cute for her little girls. Yes, I am a shameless manipulator.

On a different note, today is a big day! April 29.... I have been waiting for this day for a few weeks, although we decided not to make a big fuss over it, you just can't help but be a bit excited. It is not everyday that an adorable, much loved, sometimes a bit rebellious.....
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                                                                                                                                                                        little boy turns 2! (Did you think I was talking about someone else? In my defense, he took April 29, much earlier than Will and Kate, so today is all about him. I will catch up on the famous couple later.)

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Green Challenge-Kid's kitchen hutch

Folk box

I repainted a wooden hutch. I used spray paint- I will probably never use spray paint again unless absolutely necessary. It's not totally done, but the base colors (moss green and white) are generally done. The top half that is white behind the shelves I might paint red. I want it to look similar in style to the little wooden jewelry box I painted with folk designs.

BEFORE

AFTER

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GREEN - little Irish dancer bags

For the raffle at the Irish dance competition, I make these little Irish dancer bags (with my 'patented' stick figure dancer floating through the air).

To give you an example, here's 2 photos of my daughter doing this jump:



So, here's my little Irish Dancer stick figure bags, using simple cotton bags and fabric liner paints.

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GREEN - Reversible Kilts #1 and #2 (plus a lot of non-green ones!)

Hello again! I have been up to my neck in making costumes and things for the Irish dancing championships that my girls' dance school just participated in this past weekend. For our school's 'Show' performance, which I helped choreograph, I wanted our team to go from individual looks to a coordinated team look and decided on reversible wrap-around skirts. I had found a super deal on some cute zip-up kilts which I opened up and made into wrap-arounds (with a velcro closure), then I added a different decorated 'lining' to each one. I bought some inexpensive lining material, cut it out, pleated it (a first for me!),

sewed it on and finally decorated each with fabric paints (some rather ancient ones from my stash collection), lace, ribbon, fabric scraps and a very long chain of hand-knitted yarn.

Here's the green ones:
1. gold liner paint, scalloped and swirled
plus ribbons made of gold lamé and green organza
2. flowers made with fabric liner paints and butterflies made from fabric scraps
...and here are 7 of the other 8!

3. a long hand-knitted chain (made by one of my kids years ago!) of multi-colored yarn and hand-sewn on

4. swirls of fabric paints5. the first skirt I made completely - with lace

6. the word 'dance' and little bows made from blue-sequined fabric

7. lace, polka-dots and little hearts along the bottom

8. with fabric paints and 9. with fabric paint liners


Hopefully, I'll get a photo soon to show you all of the dancers in their skirts, both this way and the other. I thought I'd get this posted at least and I'm quite pleased how they all turned out.



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