Tula Pink Designer of the Month Series at Craizee Corner's Blog

Hey everyone!!! *waves like a crazy person* I hope you all are having a great day! Thank you so much for letting me be a guest post in your new series on your blog Sharon! I'm #4 on her blog, so head over there and check out the other great people and be sure to enter her giveaway!

Wow, I don't know where to start. This is my first guest post! *squee* I started sewing back in 2006 during my husband's first deployment. I needed something to fill my "free" time and so I dusted off my sewing machine that I've had for a while. Pulled out the manual and taught myself how to thread it and everything. I then grabbed a couple quilting magazines and started sewing. I haven't looked back since!!! Three kids (I had already had our first son when I started sewing) and 4 years later I'm still addicted! So far I've only made small quilts (baby and wall hangings for others) and I have a few larger quilts in various stages of completion. That's not what you're here for though. Show me the Prince Charming!!!!!

I used the Sea Turtle and children playing fabric from the Honey collection for the bodice.

I used the froggie fabric from the Indigo collection for my skirt.

And this pattern

Well, I figured since so many others would be entering quilt (which are awesome), I wanted to be a little diferent and showcase TulaPink's fabric in another way. I already had everything to make a dress that I've been wanting to make. I used Sisboom's Meghan Peasant pattern. This was a super simple dress to make (no zippers!). I really had so much fun playing with my fabric. I am so in love with this fabric. I have leftover fabric so I plan to use it to make several different projects. So stay tuned to see what I make with it.

Several of the seams are 3/8 or 5/8th of an inch seams. I wanted to throw out a new tip I came across. If you don't have a seam guide or a good line to measure your seams, I had always thought about masking tape as a guide. I came across this today on Pinterest and wanted to share it. You can use different colored rubber bands for your different measurements. Especially great if you have several different seams to sew.

So without further ado, here is the finished dress.

Front

Back

Poor, Neglected Sewing Room

Life that crazy, unpredictable aspect of our existance. Because Life Happens, it's going on two and a half weeks of no sewing. I think I'm going into major withdraws. I need to get out of this funk! After months of not looking or going to Pinterest, I got sucked into it's wormhole a couple days ago and went on a pinning spree. So go check out my boards, there are lots of recipes, Halloween/Thanksgiving/Christmas ideas, and some cute tutorials.

I don't have any sewing pictures to share with you, but here are some pics of a few things that were going on.

DD#2 and Hubby are building a wall in the front. It's been slow going since the weather has been in the 100s. It's looking really good now at 4 stones high.

Lil Man was out with us that day too.

We got our new kitchen/dining room table in. It's a German eckbank (or Corner Bench). Our first table in 10 yrs. The one we had been using was a hand-me-down from his parents. The long and short benchs lift up to have a small storage area under them.

The girls had to have pink cowgirl boots when we went to the farm store. DD#2 has worn her everyday since we bought them. She loves them, as you can tell from her expression.

My Misfit's Doll Quilt Swap quilt came in the mail with some AWESOME goodes from Amy at The Needled Fig. I already have it hanging up in my sewing room (one of the few times I've been in there). DD#2 had claimed it as hers. She had wrapped it around herself like a skirt saying it matched her shirt. I took it away when she went to sleep.

My fabric finally came for my next dress. I am going to be using this with the Meghan Peasant Dress from Jennifer at SisBoom. I can't wait to get started! I am going to use the cap sleeves with this one.

I have a pretty purple-ish rose on my rosebush!

Well, that's all for now. I can't wait to sew something up and show it off to you all!

Happy Sewing!

The Jamie Dress Take 1

After much consideration and persuation by some fellow misfits, I found SisBoom's Jamie Dress by Jamie Paganelli and Carla Crim over at Melanie's shop AboveAllFabric and downloaded it.

Well, here is my go at making the dress. It was a super easy and fast dress to make. It only took me a couple hours to make it (I had already prewashed my fabrics).

Working on the bodice:

Here I have the skirt attached.

Finished dress from the front:

From the back:

Momma and Girlies Dresses

I am going to make my daughters matching dresses. I picked the Kyoko dress pattern. I then remembered I had a pattern similar to the one I'm making the girls. So I ordered some more fabric so I could make a dress to match theirs. (Of course, I really love the fabric and wanted to make me a dress out of it. hehe)

So, to save from cutting the girls pattern, I traced out the two sizes onto freezer paper and cut them out. Fabric is washed, dried and ironed. Everything is ready to cut and sew tomorrow. I just need to get some bias tape and ribbon for the girls dresses to match the fabric.

Ok saving the best for last. I LOVE this fabric. It is from Amanda Murphy's Ambrosia collection for Robert Kaufman. These are the fabrics I chose for the dresses. My dress will be very similar.

For the bodice:

For the Obi sash:

 

For the skirt (6 total strips, 3 each):