Julane in Elephant Dress (Will Work For Oreos)

Today I took scads of photos of my beautiful niece Julane in the Elephant dress, hoping to get some good shots for my upcoming sewing kit. Here are my favorites from the shoot. Her mommy promised her oreos if she cooperated and let me tell you, it worked! She was a perfect model. She filled out the dress so perfectly, and I think the chartreuse color (thank you Kelly!) looked really wonderful with her super light hair and blue eyes.

Elephant Dress

Here is my spoonflower elephant dress! Now to get some great pictures taken and put together my sewing kit. I timed the process and the whole project should take 2.5 - 3 hrs, including the cutting. I couldn't find a zipper anywhere near the color of this fabric. I don't even know what to call this color. Anyway, I just used a cream color and I think I hid it pretty well. I used this method of installing a zipper using a glue stick and it turned out really well. It's the first time I didn't have a nasty pucker at the bottom. I am slowly learning to be a patient seamstress! Things turn out so much better when you take your time and really try to do things right.

Sewing Projects

Some photos of me in a dress I made for myself out of giant blue houndstooth blanket material, and Heidi in the new whale dress. Elsie told her that she looked really cute in it and Heidi said "I know". Wouldn't it be great if grown women talked that way when you gave them a compliment? Elsie's skirt in the bike picture was also homemade, by Rachel.

Finished Whale Dress

Here's my spoonflower whale dress.

Finally

I got my 2 dress patterns printed from Spoonflower finally. I am ready to go! Only one problem. I thought for some reason that the fabric was 58" wide, and not 56" inches. So part of the insides of my bodice pieces got cut off. But that's okay, if something had to get cut off, those would be the best pieces for it to happen to. I got some plain fabric that I can use for the insides, and next time I have these printed, they will be adjusted to fit the 56" width!

Anxiety Bucket

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. - Phillipians 4:6

When I was growing up we had this orange plastic tub that my family called "the puke bucket", that my mom would put by the side of our bed when we were sick. It was such a great friend, you know, it took the worst we had to give and came back for more.

The challenge with the verse above is that you have to do something with anxiety. You can't just stop feeling things, you have to deal with them somehow. I need an anxiety bucket that Jesus can take away and wash out for me.

Genus

This is in the Spoonflower contest of the week. It's a fabric design for a cheater quilt. If you would like to vote for my design, please click here. Note that there are alot of designs on each contest page, you have to scroll down to see them all.