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Hooded Towels

Between going camping, having a garage sale, and my family reunion* coming up next week (I'll be gone 29 June-9 July) I haven't gotten much time to post. But here's what I've been working on.

I made this hooded towel for a friend's baby shower. She is having a boy, and her nursery is blue with frogs.I embroidered (with one of my two fonts on my machine) the baby's name on the hood of the towel.All my future towels are going to have the pleats facing the other way. I wanted to applique some cattails on there, but I ran out of time and energy after camping with the teen girls in my church.The frog and letter are both home made appliquesTrying to finish, my husband was begging me to hurry up so he could snap some pictures. ^-^
I've already made a second towel. I made it for my daughter. I haven't quite finished it yet though, I still need to design the animal (a cat) and sew it on there. I'll take pictures and post them once it's finished.

*NOTE: My family reunion is out of state. I will resume sewing after 9 July. I will check my email as often as I am able while away.

Dress Form

Garage sales. You've gotta love 'em. My mom got this child 6-10 dress form at a garage sale down the street. It's practically new! It's begging me to find a project. ^-^

More Appliques

Here are some more appliques I've made. The Young Women (ages 12-17) in my church are going to a week long summer camp in June, and so I was asked to make some drawstring bags with their initial on it as well as their initial on a pillowcase that I put some trim on.

One of the bags (I apologize for the bad photos).Close up of the applique.The pillowcase trim and applique.Close up of the applique.

Embroidery

My machine does not embroider names, pictures, or the like (it only does small decorative borders). So here is my very first attempt at making the embroidery pattern myself. Its not perfect, but pretty good for a first time I think. If you're wanting something similar, we can talk. Embroidery will be a case by case decision. Again, just to clarify, I had to guide the machine by hand. This is not easy. I'll get better.

Pillowcase Dress-Take 1

My daughter had a party over the weekend, and I made this pillowcase dress for her. It's not your typical pillowcase dress. I did some shirring and put sleeves on the dress rather than the normal gathering with the ribbon. I also embroidered her sleeves and hem.It was raining before I could get some photos outside.

Poodle Skirt

Last weekend I went to a 50s themed Entertaining at Home party (For those wanting more information about Entertaining at Home, please click the link in the lower left column of the blog). I already had a poodle skirt, my mom had made it many years ago for me, but my daughter did not have one. And what are the odds of a seamstress having extra fabric and ribbons lying around? ^-^ Very high apparently, because this is what became of some of my stash...**I made the bow on the headband as well. I didn't like it at first (was my first time making a hair-bow like so), but it's grown on me. ^-^**

Here is a close up of the poodle. It is an applique patch made from scratch. Took about an hour to sew (it was my first time trying this out; turned out pretty cute if you ask me).