New Year Garment Reviews - Toddler Summer Dresses

Toddler Summer Dresses - Shadow Embroidered Version.

I plan to post pictures of all my patterns this year.  Some pictures you have seen but I hope you are inspired all over again!

This little dress is made from Pinwale Pique fabric.  

Very Summery!!

The hem is easy as can be with a Swiss Edging trim that has 4 strands of embroidery floss woven through it.  The floss accents the blue embroidery and the piping.

Miss Dot made this Toddler Summer Dress for Farmhouse Fabric to display.

She was inspired to create her own embroidery design.  The yoke of this little dress is the perfect canvas for embroidery of any kind.

I really like the piping at the bottom of the hem.  She used a fabric to face the hem, sandwiching the piping between them.  Very cute and clever is Miss Dot!

This is is a very easy dress to make and comes in size 1, 2 and 3 in one pattern.

Fabric requirements for this View up to size 3 is:

57" wide fabric - 1 Yard

45" wide fabric - 1 3/8 Yard

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My Grandmothers Quilt

This quilt was made by my Grandmother.

It has soft pretty colors.  Exactly what I like.

The flowers are hand appliqued onto the squares.

And black embroidery floss was Blanket Stitched all around each petal.  The embroidery in black makes the flowers pop out.  With such pale fabric, they needed the accent.

I remember my Grandmother sewing all the time but  I don't recall ever seeing her quilt.

Textiles from our past influence us today.

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Baby Rose View 2 with Scalloped Hem

Baby Rose Raglan Dresses View 2

Just changing the color of the fabric can make a big difference in the way a Baby Dress looks!

White is the classic color of Baby clothes.  Add a touch of pink embroidery and nothing is sweeter.

This dress has to be one of my all time favorites. 

 I made it for an article in Sew Beautiful magazine with the focus being - how to draft a Madeira Hem.  This dress has the scalloped hem in the front but a plain hem in the back.  What my friend calls a "Queen Ann front with a Mary Ann back".

I'm sorry but I don't know which issue this was in.

If any one of you knows, please tell.

The sleeve is attached with entredeux.  

It is also embellished with Maline Lace and embroidery.

The fabric is Swiss "Fairy Fabric".  The fabric actually had a #number to identify it but I thought this little dress looked like the fairies did indeed make it using such a sheer lovely fabric so I named it thus.  

This dress is a beauty!

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Pink Baby Rose View 2

Today I will show my pattern "Baby Rose Raglan Dresses" - View 2

Still a fancy little Baby Dress but totally different than View 1.

I am using Pink fabric.

Bear Threads Pink Swiss Lawn is a good choice for this dress.

Other fabrics I recommend are Swiss Fairy Fabric and Bearisima 2.

All are lovely shades of soft pink.

The feature on this dress is the collection of tucks, lace and embroidery at the top of the Baby Dress.

Groups of tiny sets of tucks have lace insertion between them and the fabric is slightly gathered at the neck. 

Delicate but very sweet.

Accented with Featherstitching and Bullion Rosebuds.

In the above picture, you can see that I did not cut the fabric away from behind the lace.  This makes the dress less transparent and gives it a pretty old fashioned look.  

The dress is also much more durable.

Any time you cut the fabric from behind the lace, it is going to be a more fragile garment.

I added Lace Insertion to the sleeve which is included in the pattern directions (again, fabric is intact behind the lace) and I  attached the sleeve using Entredeux.  This was easy because of the raglan sleeves.

Entredeux always fancies up a dress!

The Baby Dress has a turned up (to the back) hem, with Lace Insertion placed just at the top where the hemming line would be.  Embroidery is centered above the lace.

Old Fashioned Embroidered Bullion Roses at the hem.

I like to put a label inside my Baby Dresses.

Baby will be well and smiling and ..

Pretty in Pink!!

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Babies in Baby Rose Dress View 1

The reason we Sew!!

Beautiful Babies  wearing Baby Rose View 1.

Thank you to a talented lady for sending me this pictures so I could share with you!

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Baby Rose View 1

I am going to post pictures, showing you my Patterns and designs every week through out this new year.  You might have seen some of these pictures, but probably not all of them. I hope you enjoy the pictures and you are inspired to sew more Baby clothes this year.

Baby Rose View 1

The Baby Dress pictured above is from my pattern "Baby Rose Raglan Dresses"

This Dress is one of the three styles in the pattern which was named after my youngest Granddaughter Emma Rose.

For this particular Baby Dress, I chose a soft mint green Swiss  Fairy Fabric with an off white lace.

Other fabrics to consider are Pima Batiste or Pima Lawn as well as Swiss Batiste Nelona weight or a Swiss Lawn.  For this view you will need 3/4 yard of fabric. 

 For this view I do like the sheer fabric, with a slip under it.

View 1 is elegant with the lace embellishment and embroidery down the center  front.  The Baby Dress that inspired this View was a short Christening Gown.

 I have cut the fabric away from behind the lace.  I used lace scissors to do this because they have round nibs at the tips to prevent you from accidentally snipping your lace (ugh!! the very thought gives me shivers).

Because this Dress was used for a Class I taught,  there are different embroidery stitches than are called for in the pattern.  I made Looped Bullion Flowers instead of all Bullion Rosebuds.

Something to remember about embroidery is that you can make the design unique to you.  If you don't like stitching Bullions, then use a different stitch.  It will still be pretty and you will enjoy it more.

Look at the line of openwork in the picture above.  This stitch goes by different names.  I  call it Bermuda Faggoting.  I substituted it for the Featherstitching that the pattern calls for because I wanted to teach it  in my class.  The Dress is pretty with either stitch. 

I attached the raglan sleeve with Baby Entredeux.  It fancies the Dress up and is easy peasy to do on a raglan sleeve.  It's the little extra things you do to a garment that make it so special.  And that is the reason we sew.

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Heirloom Sewing Market

All set up and ready for market.

  Beauty Pins are getting hard to come by and were in great demand.  

We sold out of them within the first hour.

Being at the Heirloom Sewing Market is always inspiring.  I wish we also had a Retail portion to the show.  I know there are not shops in all areas of the country and many of you would welcome the opportunity to shop "in person".

For those of you near shops, visit your shop to see what they bought back from Market.  Market is about more than Merchandise, it's also about inspiration and ideas.

Your shop will come back with new ideas for you!

Have Fun.

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Fun at the Creative Needlework Market!

This is what I hope my booth looks like by 10 AM on Sunday Morning.

Look for me……!

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Driving To The Needlework Market in Birmingham

Sunday is  the Creative Needlework Market in Birmingham!

It is a Wholesale Market -   For the trade.

I will be there selling Buttons, Patterns, my Book, some fabric and Baby Pins…

 this Sunday, January 11, 2015.

Held at the Marriott, 3590 Grandview Parkway

Birmingham.

Look for me!

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Going to Birmingham Market this Weekend - to sell Buttons and more!

I have Mother of Pearl Buttons.

Millions of Mother of Pearl Buttons.  Lovely Buttons, Beautiful Buttons.

Old but never used Buttons.  Buttons they don't make anymore Buttons.

They are for Sale!

I am on my way to the Birmingham Creative Needlework Market.

It is a Wholesale Market -   For the trade.

I will be there selling Buttons, Patterns, my Book, some fabric and Baby Pins…

 this Sunday, January 11, 2015.

Held at the Marriott, 3590 Grandview Parkway

Birmingham.

Look for me!

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A Brand New Year

On the first day of the New Year…..

I spent the entire (well, almost) day in my pj's sitting by the fire and stitching.

It was pure bliss!!

I love the concept of a New Year! 

 I love a blank sheet of paper!  I love snow that has yet to be walked on (I lived in Newfoundland, I know about snow)!

And I love fabric, yet to be cut!

It is all about the possibilities.  Things I can do that I haven't done yet.  Things I can do again that I love to do.  And I love to have goals. Sometimes I like to work toward things with a purpose.  Sometimes my purpose is to sit in front of the fire and enjoy just being!  

Though I can't seem to just be without a needle in my hand.

I'm looking forward to sharing the new, uncharted, full of possibilities, New Year with you, my friends!

May the New Year bring you busy hands, fun sewing projects, peace and joy.

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