For the little lady's birthday, she had a gardening party. I grabbed fabric to make her an outfit and then after her outfit was made, I realized I had lots of extra fabric. The boys were asking me if they got aprons, so I decided to make all the kids a half apron as …
Wide Leg Ruffle Pants Tutorial
These are my new favorite pants to make for Imogene. These are her new favorite pants to wear. She is a very girl, girl. And my little ballerina has some strong thighs. So she enjoys the roomier wide leg pants. (Plus with the ruffles and the cut, these are very difficult to outgrow pants! And …
Elizabeth Pants Tutorial
My niece is turning one! I couldn't let the occasion go by without using the opportunity to make her some clothes to begin her toddling phase in. (Let's just face it, if I'm your Aunt, you're going to get homemade clothes. It is just life.) So, for outfit number one, I chose to make a …
Double Ruffle Pants Tutorial
You know my daughter loves ruffles, right? You didn't know that? Well, she does. When I said I was making her ruffled pants, she thought I was putting ruffles on her jeans to make them more wearable. She was only slightly disappointed to discover I was starting from scratch and making new ruffle pants. Her …
Petal Skirt
This skirt is very similar to the Pixie Skirt. In fact, the Petal Skirt and Pixie Skirt are so similar, I'm only posting one tutorial. Skip to the bottom for dimensions for the Pixie. Why the difference? Well, the Petal Skirt is for older girls and the Pixie Skirt is for younger girls. Simple. This …
Pants!!!
I recently purchased the book Sewing Clothes Kids Love by Nancy Langdon and Sabine Pollehn. It is a fabulous book! The pictures are lovely and the projects are drool worthy. There are 10 patterns in the book and I want to make them all several times! This is not a book for beginners. The projects …
My Craft Bookmarks
I often wonder about other people's bookmarking habits. I wonder what treasures they have bookmarked. Yesterday, it occurred to me that we could have a sort of bookmark swap! I tell you my bookmarks and you tell me yours. Well, on your blog, you tell yours. I'll go first. These are just my craft related …
Aprons For Aspiring Chefs
The little ones around here are getting a fancy new kitchen play set for Christmas. Their Granny bought them a kitchen over a year and a half. They have loved the stuffing out of it. Well, in this case, they just loved it to pieces. So, the Pastor and I decided to upgrade them to …
“Vintage” Smock
Ah, the power of quotation marks! There is really nothing vintage about this smock. Unless fabric that has been sitting in my stash for a year counts as being vintage. I guess the only vintage thing about it is that the pattern is modeled after a vintage pattern. So, it is like, 5% vintage. I …
Notes From the Parsonage 