Done with several projects

Jul 23, 2006 1 Replies

Just finished the third twill skirt for DD, and for a little variety, I made the last one with a fly front instead of a back zipper (two and a half hours each on the first two, three and on the one with the fly front).



And I have another Highland Dance "Lilt" skirt and scarf finished to deliver to DGD's teacher (third one). I'm getting the dance outfits down to about 2-1/2 hours start to finish, including fringing the scarves. I would have let DGD fringe this last one, but I discovered the cloth, which may be old (from the teacher's stash?), was 100% cotton, and pulling the threads for the fringe was *not* fun. Every crosswise thread broke the minute I started pulling them, very frustrating. So she'll get to work on the



*next* one.

Tomorrow, I'm going to start on the silk pajamas to wear on my up-coming vacation at the coast.



And this week I salvaged a favorite RTW denim shirt which is nicely embroidered with wildflowers. I stupidly splashed bleach on it, and I have been trying for a couple of years to think of some way to "fix" it. Well, duh moment! I digitized a tiny lady bug, and a 1" dragonfly, then I purchased several hummingbird-with-flowers embroidery designs:

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a couple of hummingbirds strategically over the largestbleach spots, andthe dragonflies and lady bugs over small spots,then added a few bugs and birdson the back and sleeves to makeit look like it was "intended to be that way". Did I mention Ilove the embroidery machine? ;-)Beverly


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a couple of hummingbirds strategically over the largestbleach spots, andthe dragonflies and lady bugs over small spots,then added a few bugs and birdson the back and sleeves to makeit look like it was "intended to be that way". Did I mention Ilove the embroidery machine? ;-)BeverlyI'm doing something similar with an old denim shirt of Harri's andturning it into a cropped jacket. I LOVE my Babylock Embellishermachine and happily machine felt flowers onto all kinds of things!!! Icut-out the flowers and such from scrap fabric while watching tv. It'skind of soothing and reminds me of playing with paperdolls when I waslittle. :-)

Erin

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