My Sisters Hat

While visiting my sister in NY over thanksgiving we went windowshopping. She tried this hat on and and looked terrific. I took a picture and just had to draw it for one of the final projects for the art course I am taking. I think it would make a great note card. Maybe embelish it by adding some small rhinestones to the white dots on the hat.

The actual hat is made of hot pink feathers. Do you know how hard it is to make hot pink using only the three primary colors , white and black? You can't. I do think the pink I ended up with is very nice though.

This is "Saratoga Springs Society" ready for the races!

Young Elizabeth Swan

My youngest daughter has wanted to be Young Elizabeth Swan for halloween 2008 since halloween 2007. Here are some finished photos. My favorite part of making this costume was the 12 inch hem. Instead of cutting the extra length off as I usually do I decided to make hems in 2 inch increments. Everyone has commented on how authentic this looks for a period piece. I do have to agree. And as she grows I am able to let the hem down gradually so that she may wear this dress for hopefully years to come.

I love to sew. I started our sewing by my Nana's side when I was a young girl. I would take her scraps and just sew lines into fabic. straight lines, zig zag lines, fancy lines it did not matter. As soon as the unneeded fabric hit the floor it was gold to me.

As I got older I made some doll clothes. I did not use a pattern, I just knew what I wanted it to look like and went from there.

I really got into sewing when my oldest daughter was born 13 years ago. I loved to make dresses for her to wear. unfortunatly as she got older she liked to wear what I made less and less. She will still wear a home made halloween costume.

My youngest at 8 is thrilled when I say I am going to make her a dress or skirt to wear. She loves to dress up (like as in Halloween) I feel that because I work hard to make clothes for her that she should be able to wear them all the time . This includes school too.

For back to school I made her a poodle skirt. I think she wears it once a week. It makes me happy to see her so excited to put on something that I have made.

I do other things too. I make costumes for Studio 109 drama productions. above is a Cheshire cat costume I made a year ago for a version of "Alice in Wonderland" The wanted it to look like the animated movie. I think it came out pretty good. They loves it. ( It is my oldest in side) There was no pattern for the head. I just made it up as I went along. The studio is now using the costume in a dance number along with many of the other costumes I have created. What do you think?