Wanted #15
Bonnie Cigarette Trousers Plain Black by Collectif WANTED Nice Cigarette Pants!
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Favorite pattern revisited, again
I brought out my all time favorite pattern again to make a summer dress for my youngest daughter. This time I chose a turqoise fabric with butterflies and birds on it and red for the circle skirt underneath. Red and turqoise is my favorite color combo's. I used this pattern many times before, as you can see here (click on the links underneath the pictures to go to the original post): The Twirl Factor Pink Strawberry Dress Sweet Heart Dress Flower Dress Birthday Dress Zebra Skirt All very different designs, but all with the same basic pattern... www.betweennapsontheporch.net
One More Time
I think of myself as someone who is not a supertalent at sewing or crocheting or anything else related to crafting, but I can sew a pretty skirt for my girls or crochet a nice baby blanket for a friend who has just delivered, if the pattern isn't too complicated. But there's one thing I am really not good at and that's baking nice cakes, beautiful cookies or awesome cupcakes. The times I tried, it never ended up as I thought it would look, as you can see here: Rainbow Cupcakes with buttercreme 'clouds' that slided of the blue fondant. Cake Pops Ice Cones with chocolate that didn't drip nicely down the pink candy melts (and melts that for some reason stayed too thick after melting). Flower Cookies that came way too big out of the oven, so they tripped over all the time. Confetti Cookies that looked alright, but were a bit too hard to bite, especially for little children's teeth. But a couple of w...
Strawberries!
After months of crocheting, I am now more in the mood for sewing. I have two larger projects on the sewing table that I will finish soon and will show you here (skirt and top), and I'm still busy crocheting a baby blanket that turns out to take infinite time, but inbetween I made this little skirt for my youngest daughter, so I still have the satisfaction of a Finished Project: The blue fabric has tiny strawberries on it. Love that! www.betweennapsontheporch.net