I feel as if its been forever since I've had a chance to sneak away and make anything never mind find time to blog about it. The other day I was at the store and saw this really cute dinosaur fabric. Knowing that the kids have a dinosaur party to attend this weekend I figured I would grab a yard of the fabric some accent fabric and make them outfits. Mighty ambitious of me seeing as how I haven't used my sewing machine to actually make something from scratch in 3 years. I have used it to re purpose things but that's about it. I also figured I would give using a serger a try seeing as how I haven't used one of those in over 15 years! Now I don't have a serger and going out to buy one isn't going to happen. I asked my sister in law but she was going to NY so I quickly put out a post on Facebook asking if anyone was willing to part with their serger for a day. Before I could blink my neighbor Nancy posted she had one and I could come grab it. Mind you this is at 10:30 pm. See what I mean when I'm always saying how great my friends are. So I ran over and grabbed it. The next day I got to work cutting and sewing. Now me and the serger we are not friends. I was having a ton of issues with the tension and I must have retreaded that machine at least 20 times. There was a lot of taking apart putting back together sewing things backwards.... that's what I get for lining my top with the same fabric. Not that anyone would notice. I'm defiantly not known for being good at sewing but in the end I was pretty proud of how it turned out. Once her dress was done I had to make matching tie shirts for her brothers. Now using the heat and bond and sewing the ties way harder then it looked. I was planning on making them for Bella's party so I was really glad I got a chance to practice. Lets just say I need to work on those more. Last thing I did was throw together some bows with the scrap fabric. Now that I am done with that... time to move on to baking cupcakes. Here are a few pictures of the kids in their outfits.
Bella in her dress
matching hair bows
Tristan rocking his tie
Aedan showing off his tie
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