Not here today

I'm not here today. But I'm still in blogland
Wanna see what I'm up to ? Tune in to  504 Main: home of Holly's inspirational decors projects and the "Tickled Pink" party.

Hope to see you there and that you will time to look around and check Holly's creations.

Kanzashi blooms - Getting smaller

After making a number of large flowers in satin and cotton voile, I felt I was ready to go a bit smaller. The need for precision is more evident here. No doubts I will starch the fabrics some more before cutting them next time. While the weight of the fabrics was right, it was too "springy" to maintain the folds nice and crisp so it made for irregular flowers. Still cute though. I've photographed this batch with a quarter to show the scale. 

More experimenting to come

Princess Fiona's - A summer dress

I have been informed/instructed by Bug about Princess Fiona needing some summer dresses. This is the first one that came out of the sweatshop studio. Bug is of course expecting a couple more.

I still had a few scraps of the toile blouse I recycled into a dress for Bug.




Just about enough for a dress for Fiona. I went for a simple pillowcase dress to avoid having to deal with sleeves. It turned just a bit short so I ended up adding a ruffle at the bottom

And for Bug's convenience (and mine) I used a fabric covered elastic instead of a ribbon tie. Easy to put on and off without mommy's help. Bug loves it "Oh! La jolie robe" she went. I think Fiona will get more dresses on the same basic design. It's so cute I'd make some for Bug too but her closet is already full of pretty dresses thanks to Grandma.