Sweet Wrap Skirt

 Sweet Wrap Skirt by LippyAnne Designs

My girls are very excited I've been given the opportunity to do more pattern testing, they benefit big time! This quick and easy to put together, I did have to make the elastic in the back much smaller than she suggested because my 9 year old (in 10 days!) is super skinny. Otherwise it was perfect in length and style. For my less girly girl this was perfect and she happily wore it. She also pelted me with questions about being a model and if I thought it was a possibility for a future career. I told her to keep up the good work!

The Pooka Bean Dress and Hat

The Pooka Bean Dress and Hat
By LippyAnne Designs

Jack-Jack was convinced it was a dancing dress, she twirled and twirled!

She was NOT a fan of the hat, there were lots of tears, and sad faces.

BeBop Top

Bebop Top by Scientific Seamstress 

Jr. was the lucky recipient of this pattern test

She dubbed this top Diamond falls on Midnight

  I also made her a "winter" version out of houndstooth cotton with 3/4 length sleeves. She can't wait until it gets cold enough to wear it!

A New Sewing Experience

I think I spend half my life on the internet. Between emails, research, pattern searching, and a little bit of just playing around I spend a lot of time in front of a screen! I have quite a few friends I've met on the internet.

One of my internet friends made a super cute shirt/skirt/sash (I recommended she add a sash), she thought about making it into a pattern, so she did. She drew it up, turned it into a PDF, wrote a tutorial with great pictures and then went looking for pattern testers! I was lucky enough to be chosen from the giant pool of testers that she had asking to help her out.

I'd never pattern tested before and I've only used PDF patterns on a limited basis. I'm stingy and they are more expensive than mass produced patterns, for all the same reasons my costumes cost more than the ones at Target do. Handmade, good quality, personal attention.  Using her tutorial was very easy and there were only a couple of hiccups in the process, several of which were due to my inability to read...all of them have been corrected.  I made two versions, here is the colorful one I made for my daughter.

She has the pattern for sale here and you'll recognize one of her cute models :) She blogs about her sewing adventures, much better than I do, here. I hope she keeps making up great patterns because I'd love to see more of her work!