More Shameless Self Promotion

So, I've been learning to sew for the last, um, 6 or so months. I started pretty small--baby leg warmers, an apron, stuff like that. Well, about a month or so ago, I was looking at some fabric online and ran across this yoga monkey fabric and absolutely had to buy it for Andi's daughter Sophia (andi owns a yoga studio). I got it in my head that I would make something for Sophia's birthday which was the 14th so I got a "sew easy" pattern and asked Nanny to teach me to read it. HA. HA. IT WAS SO HARD. lol. I might have bit off more than I could chew but Nanny is an awesome teacher so I not only finished it, but I am pretty impressed with myself.

Now--gaze upon my first real sewing project, the glorious result of 4 days of long hours of staring at an incomprehensible (sew easy, my foot) pattern, sewing, doing it wrong, picking it apart, sewing again, having to make up a section because the pattern's version looked stupid, learning to make button loops off the internet, and so on. Ta da!






Yay! I am hoping to get a photo of Sophia in the outfit soon...Andi just told me that Sophia wore the outfit to her birthday party and I AM SO EXCITED about that!

Here's my second brag...I made Autumn a dress! I took a smocking class at a shop called Lace Cottage back in May. After practicing a little, I got started on a little bishop dress. Here it is after I finished smocking it and Nanny started showing me how to assemble it:


And here it is on Autumn today! It's a little big but that's definitely better than a little small, right?


Next I am going to work on something a little less traditional for her...a smocked dress made from electric blue houndstooth...it is super soft!