Graduation and a Dress for Nii

I am writing this post out of town so I don’t know what pattern I had made for Chenii. I pulled out some fabrics that I had bought for the girlies and let her choose which ones she wanted to make her dress with. Here is the pile of fabric she had to choose from.

A pile of purple as she believes she’s really the Purple Princess. Some of these were for me to make scrubs when I was working in pediatrics. She chose the very first one at the top for the lower tier in the skirt. The third fabric is a Hanna Montana print that she chose for the ruffle down the front and the top skirt tier. The solid purple, six down, was for the bodice.

It was worn to my son’s graduation. I’ll post the pattern once I get my hands on it.

Pattern S2943 Oop. I didn’t even know it was Oop.

    

 

These are from the fitting. I didn’t get any while at the graduation because I was too worried about MY photos done. Lol

My husband graduated too! Yay! Here are some photos we took and the dress I am wearing (that has now become property of my baby sister) is Simplicity Workroom 6097.

Simplicity WorkRoom 6097

Until another post.

Kisses and thigh slaps,

Signed,

~~Scheryka

Christmas Crunch

I wasn’t going to attend our Mount Pleasant Annual Christmas Banquet this year. Financially, I just wasn’t able. So, I got a call on Monday morning and the caller told me that someone decided not to go and donated their tickets back. She said she was told to give them to another church member. I was the lucky recipient. Yay! But hold on. Wait a minute. We (me and the girls) didn’t have a thing to wear. My thoughts went into crunch mode. What in the world were we going to wear? I went to the stash to see what I had in both fabric and patterns that was easy and preferably that I’d made before already. For my 3 year old, I pulled out Simplicity 4337.

This is going to be a quick and easy review. I have made this before. It’s been a while. I made it for my niece in Lavender about 5 years ago and I don’t have any photos of it. it greatly resembled the Lavender one the little girl is modeling. Only difference in the two was that the dress I made had an all over sheer chiffon-like lace. I did use the instructions because I have put together many dresses so I pretty much know my ins and outs of a quick fix.

I made the size six for my three year old. Yes, you read that right. And to be honest, it is on it’s last leg of wear. She is tall and heaft...I mean, healthy.

I believe had I used the same fabrics, yes, it really would have looked like the photos and or drawings, but since I used a beautiful Black and White polka dot flocked organza that I’d stumbled upon while I should not have been in Hancock in NC.

Second fitting for the waist.

it looks much better. It was a steal, too. I ‘d gotten if for $2.95 a yard with an extra $1.00 off. For $1.95, not bad. I should have gotten more of it but I failed to listen to that inner she devil that was pulling at my thoughts to clean the bolt. Darn, sometimes it’s worth the she devil because I sooo see me making myself a high-waist pencil skirt out of that fabric. But, oh well, if I run into it again, I’ll be sure to grab it. I hope it’ll be on sale.

  Not quite done.

I originally had sleeves cut out and ready go but the way  I’d done the bodice it would have taken up too much time to put them in. So, I left them off. They are still ready to be put onto something. Something maybe black, white, or red.

I don’t believe I would make it again because it is an old pattern and I have made it already twice. There are so many other girly patterns I want to give a try. But, I do recommend it to others to try. The only photos I have is of my daughter wearing it while at the Christmas B0anquet.

A few more photos:

The bolero is from another pattern I made a year ago for my oldest daughter.

The other outfit I made in a crunch for the Banquet was New Look  6130. I made it out of a Leopard print pointe I’d gotten on sale from Hancock’s. I love the way this fabric feel. It was on sale, too, by mistake. The bolt was marked 80% off when in reality it was 30 or 40% off. I can’t remember exactly which one. but I got it for what it was marked. I made the coordinate pattern into a dress with a detachable peplum. I made the top C sans the peplum part; attached the skirt E to the top then made the peplum separately with a band and two snaps for closure. Too cute. I have since sold the dress and will make me another ...one day.

                                             

That’s all for now. I have a few more things I need to photograph before the New Year and bring 2012 to a close.

Until I erase the camera and bring you more cheer,

Peace, Love, and contagious Joy.

The Mermaid Dress? (McCalls 6271)

     I b-back! (In my Mario voice)

      This dress has been in request from my daughter since April and I finally got around to putting it together. Since life has its way of throwing curve balls (because your way is not God’s will), I have been out of commission for a hot minute. But, hey, I’m shattered, but I’m not broken and certainly not dead. So that, in itself, is something to thank God for. How-be-ever, the Mermaid Dress has evolved from being a dress-up costume to becoming McCalls 6271.

                            

     Nii saw the pattern in my stash and said it was the Mermaid dress she was talking about. Well, um, ok. And so it came to pass. I grabbed the pattern,

Description: Lola Lou Easy; Children’s/Girls’ Pullover Halter Top and Dress, and Shorts. The top and dress is self lined with an elastic back. There are no buttons and no zipper. (So Evoni, you CAN do this!)

     The sizes are 2 to 8. I made the five and ummm, let us just say Nii is 3 and a 1/2 and she will NOT be wearing it come Spring. She is really tall for her age and her weight is right along with it! But had I made the 5 for a five year old, I’d say it’s true to size.

     I took out the stash boxes upon boxes of fabric and she chose a fabric I was saving for a maxi. Darn. But, hey, she’s one of my munchkins and I’d do anything for her - except help send her to hell. This is the fabric.

Fabric: It’s like a slightly stretch poplin. I don’t know. Woven? Feel good though.

                    

     I sent a picture to my sister and she kindly said to take another shot because that one wasn’t cutting. Well, actually, the first thing she texted back was “curtains?” I refolded the fabric and sent her this shot:

                           

     Then, how ‘bout Lil Sista had the nerves to tell me it was still ugly?! But listen, she was the one who chose it for me to make my maxi! Uh huh, have me looking like walking custom-made drapery from Grandma’s house! I still like it though I won’t make a maxi, I’ll just do a simple pencil skirt. That’ll be better. At least I’ll look like tailored drapery. Lol is that possible? Tailored drapes? Prob not. But oh, well.

     This is the contrast Chenii chose. Dang, another save I had in the stash! I guess she said she’ll use it since I hadn’t.

                                            

It’s a stretch poplin. I still had the sticky on it.

     The instructions were right on point. Nothing to decipher and nothing left out. No head scratching or brow pulling. I am still sane. Don’t let the lines intimidate you. This dress is awesomely easy! The most time consuming part are the gathers where you have to gather the top and bottom portions of the skirt and lining.

     Here a two work in progress pictures.

several pins to hold up the bubble. She’d better listen and keep still! LOL

close up of the bodice.

     I made no adjustments or design changes. It’s made right out of the bag.

I certainly recommend this for anyone who wants the look of a time consuming project. Like they spent hours on it. But in actuality spent an evening. I would like to make it again, but if I don’t, there are several other patterns in the stash to choose from.

     Here are the final shots. I don’t know why she wanted those socks and no shoes but hey, that’s her fashion.

                                                                                                            

                                             

That is all for now. I have several reviews to post but time is not on my side. They’ll squeeze themselves in some how.

     Until later, Peace and Hair grease. Turtle Wax and Pressing Dax. LOL Bye ya’ll.