Old World Birds Dress

Here is my Old Worlds Bird dress on Elsie. Size 5. I can't help being inspired by my Slovak heritage. I've always loved their artwork and traditional dress. Coming soon, this will be available as a sewing kit at Mamma Made designs.

Winged Lion

I've entered this in the "Imaginary Animals" Spoonflower contest this week. If you like this and you have nothing better to do with your next three minutes, you could vote for me!

Sewing Kits Now Available

Wahoo! Some of Rachel's and my sewing kits are now available to buy at Mamma Made Designs. Get them while they're hot.

Hearts and Hummingbirds

Here is Elsie in "Hearts and Hummingbirds dress" which will soon be available as a sewing kit at Mamma Made Designs.

Riley in Whale Dress

This is my friend Melody's daughter Riley, posing for me in the Whale Dress at Succop Conservancy. What a cute-head!

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.

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!

New Projects

These are being printed at Spoonflower on one yard of fabric. Then I'll cut them out and sew them together, then I'll get some photos taken of a cute little 3 year old girl in them (anybody know one of those?) and eventually I'm planning to sell them as ready made sewing kits through Mamma Made Designs. Rachel has already done some really fun stuff with this. Check out her green tent dress and elephant dress. This is so much fun. I could do this all day long.

Installment 2: Taking a stab at some girls' dress designs

Art Noveau Spoonflower Contest

I didn't have much time to work on this but I wanted to give it a shot so I slapped this sort of sketchy image into the latest Spoonflower contest which is an Art Noveau inspired design with a restricted color palette. A long time ago I took some photos of my beautiful friend Kelly, I wish I could find the originals, but I used a photoshopped version of it as a basis for this design. Kelly recently gave birth to her fifth child (at home, unassisted by anyone other than her husband.. amazing!) and has always been one of the most creative people I know. Here's to you Kelly! If you want to vote in the contest click here. There are some really amazing designs to look at.

Swatches

Some samples of fabric designs I've done. I've made a bunch available for sale at Spoonflower

SEEDS

Happy

Please vote for my design in the spoonflower contest here if you like it!

Raggedy Ann finale

A dress like my Raggedy - After all these years! Thanks to Spoonflower.