mini-me sews

Mini-me & I are off to Europe in a few weeks so we

 have started to sew some garments for our trip.

She saw that I had all this fabric & wanted to design 

her own dress!

She picked this pink polka dot fabric & a little Spring 

time sateen for her design.

She sewed the skirt part & she asked for help with the stretchy polka

dot fabric.  I used a zig zag stitch of course.

I also serged the seams in tangerine because I still have not

changed the thread.......I know so bad.

This is her design....not bad for for a teen & so like her....original!  She plans on 

wearing this in France with a Beret.

Sew you later!

~DeniseAngela~

Projects for April....

I have been back to designing in addition to 

sewing with patterns.  This New Look pattern 6125 is for my oldest who 

is 20 years old.  She is in University & is tired of spending what little

cash she makes on clothes so she asked me to make this dress for her.

New Look workroom pattern 6051 I thought would make a colourful 

lounge dress or cover up for me in this silky sateen fabric.

I am also drafting a bias skirt pattern in a larger size than the one 

I made a few years ago for my middle daughters friend.

This blue & white cotton sewing machine fabric I bought a few years ago & decided to

design a contrast dress using New Look 6934.

Last but not least mini-me has designed her own dress

& this is all I can show you until she 

finishes it!

Thanks for stopping by &

Sew you later!

~DeniseAngela~

A houndstooth dress

My Fashion Star McCalls' 6553 pattern is finally done!

This pattern called for interfacing, I only had the fusible

facing left so I made it with that.

The pattern pocket instruction I still do not understand but used my own

way which is how I learned to make pockets.....from a book.

I love a dress with pockets!

I used a linen blend fabric.

Even I could understand the loop tie but I made it with a little ruffle.  I chose a 

fun pink button.

I serged the hem with tangerine thread & still might do a proper hem but I

wore it like this today.

The back interfacing gives the dress a crisp look that I am liking.

So this "easy" dress made me revisit interfacing as I had not sewn with that

in a couple of years & made me remember how to insert seam pockets!

Sharing my project with:
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Sew you later!

~DeniseAngela~

belle peasant dress....

I have been reading some old books & watching old movies lately & feeling whimsical so I made this dress.

I used McCall's 5050 pattern view E but made it a dress by adding 4 inches.  A little too short so I added the lace hem.

The raglan bell sleeves in this pattern is what caught my eye in the pattern $1.99 markdown bin.

This was supposed to be my toile using this inexpensive unknown fibers fabric, as I thought the pattern was complicated, but it was way easy!  

So now I can make this dress in some Silk fabric I have been coveting at the fabric store.

linking up to:

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Sew you later!