More of the dressmaking later, but first a strawberry themed card:
Ingredients: Paper - October Afternoon, felt from stash, Dovecraft brads, ribbon from stash, Fiskars punch, Nestabilities, Cuttlebug and Quickutz dies, pen stitching.
As I said, the card was inspired by my fab new pin cushion which I bought from NicolaLuke on Etsy:
It looks cute in the photo, but it is even better in real life. The detail is amazing and I feel guilty sticking pins in it. (Nicola also has a blog with details of her fab creations - check it out here.)
As I said on my last post, I have acquired a sewing machine with the intention of making a dress. I am happy to say there has been significant progress on this, and not just buying the aforementioned pin cushion. I have infact made a 'practise' dress!
I am going to the races this summer and decided I wanted to make my own dress. With my very limited sewing and dress making experience I knew I would need a pattern so I picked this one from Vogue Easy Options:
I also decided it might be an idea to buy some cheap fabric to practise on, which just so happened to have a strawberry print. I set to work with my 'practise' fabric and this is the [nearly] finished dress:
It looks a bit odd on the hanger, but I can say it looks very nice on. In this photo it's not been hemmed and there is no zip in it, but I was very pleased to get this far without major incident. I even managed to do the lining. My vanity meant that I cut the pattern a size smaller than I should have done, but that's why I chose to do a practise dress before the real thing.
Finally, here's a shot of all my strawberry items together:
Thanks for looking,
Ruthie x
