Handmade stuff – Page 4 – Lady SleepsAlot

Failed dress, but still okay!

I wanted to make a dress for Alva. Turns out that fabric was horrible to sew with, and while I wanted it to be foofy it turned out Waaaay too foofy 😛
To save the dress, I added a ribbon around her waist. Now the dress actually looks sort of beautiful, and Alva isn’t complaining, thats for sure 😉

Oh, I also upgraded my Flickr account to pro. I really didn’t want only my latest 200 photos to show, and since I actually use Flickr very often and love it so much, I might as well pay 😛

I really like Flickr. At first I didn’t use it for much, but it really is a community! People started adding me and fav’ing my photos, and I started doing the same, and I’ve met some lovely people that way! $25 for one year is absolutely fair for all that 😉

My first commission!

A nice lady contacted me on Flickr because she liked a couple of the dresses I made for my girls 🙂 I had enough fabric left to make two more, and the first one is done!
I was a bit annoyed after finding a spot on the fabric, after spending hours sewing and serging and stuff, but I gave her a discount on it because of it and it’s in a fold so it doesn’t really show.

I’m really proud of it 🙂

While I don’t plan on taking on commissions in the future, I do want to make some dresses for sale eventually. I’ll put them in a set on flickr, and just post prices and stuff in the description. I’ll put them up here too, for those of you who follow my blog ^^

Edit to add photo of the other finished dress:

Alice Rainbow

Photoshop is a nice tool

Photo sunday!

organizing, and a new sweater!

I bought this little shelf system thing, and it’s perfect for easy access to small things like eyes, socks, yosd shoes and so on:

I’m in the process of labeling each drawer.
And I decided to tweak my sweater pattern a bit more, as I wasn’t perfectly happy with the fit earlier. I didn’t sew a test first, so I knew there was potential for disaster 😛 Luckily it turned out absolutely perfect, exactly how I wanted it to be! And I even used my edging foot to help make the sleeves look nicer (the fabric stays in place even if tiny hands pull on the edges when putting it on) and ironed after every step.

The fabrics I used are the ones I bought yesterday. The pink went perfectly with the kitties as there are small pink hearts on it as well 🙂 I need new tights to go with though, since the ones she is wearing is white, and the sweater is a creamier color.
I’m so happy with my new sweater pattern, I may have to tweak the pattern I made for Lusis as well.

A dress

I wanted to test out a pattern from the dollydolly book, and I had what was supposed to be a LTF dress laying around. I combined the top with the dress/skirt and it turned out pretty good. She’s also wearing a fairyland petticoat underneath, and a KristinKreations crochet hat.

I’m not super happy about the fit of the top, and it still needs a couple of buttons in the back, but doesn’t she look cute? 😀 I swear those shoes makes it impossible for her to stand, but they are so awesome that we tried anyway 😛

Sewing

More sewing!
I remembered I promised to show a photo of the halloween dress:

And I bought a dress today at the childrens part of the store. I plan on using the fabric to make Lusis a new dress, but it’ll be a while since I need to make a pattern first. Doesn’t she look cute though?

I also finally got around to glueing her thigh thingies today 😀 Yaaay for stuff that is done!

A little fashion show

Not all the dresses are completely finished, but the girls wanted to show off their new clothes anyway, and I couldn’t say no 😀

Yaay dresses!

I’ve been wanting to make a pattern for a super simple dress for a while, and today I just went for it.
Making the straps is a real pain, but everything else goes pretty fast and pain free!
Apologize for the bad quality of these photos:P

The first try, it has a few kinks but is still pretty

My second try, I really like how this turned out

I was planning on adding buttons where the straps are, but I haven’t gotten so far yet. I still need to add buttons in the back too.
I keep thinking maybe the straps are a bit too wide also, just a tiiiny bit. I may try some thinner ones later 🙂
All in all I’m happy with the pattern, it’s a simple look that can look simple or more extravagant if I add decorations or ruffles and so on 🙂

More Ante, and some clothes :D

My off shoulder sweater pattern for LTF may not be perfect, but they sure look cute in them anyway 🙂 Made a pink one earlier, and a purple one yesterday, so Ante and Luna modelled them for me.

Love pink on her, and this photo shows her eye color better, not as electric as they seem in other photos

Luna in the purple sweater. It would be better if the fabric had more stretch, but they are still cute 😀

I’m so happy with my little gang, I still can’t believe I ended up with 3 Ante’s 😛