Snowflake in the Desert

My friend Crystal over at Ginger Dimples figured I was wasting several hours a day sleeping so she talked up this home sewing knock off of Project Runway, Project Run and Play. Basically they have people with blogs compete to make outfits that fit a certain criteria. The home sewists get weeks instead of hours to make their looks but it's all in good fun. I am not an official competitor, I am simply participating for fun.

The first week's theme is Winter Wonderland. In the Mojave desert we have to make our own winter magic as the weather rarely ever cooperates in that department.

I really wanted to use the McCalls 5742, despite owning multiple copies of it and two in the right size I could only locate the wrong size pattern, even though I have the envelope for the right size. I ended up altering the McCalls 5793 to look like the other.

I've had this fabric in my stash for nearly 3 years just waiting for the perfect project, and this was it!

I added gems to the fabric to give it sparkle.

She wore it to church and hated every one telling her how pretty she is, she'd rather just play in the dirt!

Someone at church had mentioned a while back that poor Jack-Jack didn't have any hand made dresses like the other 3, well now she does!

Christmas sewing!

I make dresses for my girls every year, sometimes I've gone big, and other times they've been simple. Now that I have a big age range I try to make them "match" without making the 12 year old look babyish or the 9 month old look too grown up.This year I chose jewel tones and black lace, each girl got her own dress, all their bling matched, it was beaded trim I found at my favorite fabric store.

They also got Christmas pj's, usually they are store bought but their Grandma who buys them is out of the country. So I made them from fabric she gave, I thought it was a nice way to carry on the tradition. 

A Blue Christmas

This year I picked blue and white for my girls' Christmas dresses.

This was inspired by a similar dress in one of my favorite catalogs.


This dress was supposed to be sent to Washington but when my life crashed the week it was supposed to go it stayed here to be a well loved Christmas dress. :)


My oldest feels that sometimes I pick far to babyish clothes so she picked her own pattern and got to make decisions about her lace and the length.


Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Christmas Dresses - Part 2

Here are how the other 2 dresses turned out!

Christmas Dress-part 1

I finished my youngest daughter's Christmas dress last night and it turned out so cute!

It's always fun to see a picture become reality. :)