Another Show and Tell: New Outfit For My Young Miss

Just had to get a little show off picture of the outfit I made for my daughter(Young Miss) from scraps from the flannel I used to make sheets for the bed......70" wide material gives you the luxury of some good sized scraps to work with.....So from my scrap stash This emerged. The skirt is a multi paneled Vogue( I will have to post the number later as my sewing room is being reworked and it is MIA in the piles somewhere, AAUUGGHH!).. Anyway we are not skinny misses in the this house by any means..As my lovey hubby likes to put it....G-d  did not skimp on the portions in our house. Anyway this pattern IS A KEEPER..It is awesome fantastic for curvier gals....The cape had no pattern, I just winged it. It is lined with lining from the stash ..And this trim was picked up at a thrift store about 7 years ago for $1.00... It had many many yards on it..Still some left......Anyway here she is..........

Disclaimer: this girl is in desperate need of a haircut!!!

Pretty cute for scrap yah? Still think it needs a different top.Since the red are not quite right together. But the hat from her wardrobe is a perfect match.New blouse Soon. Total cost to make was $7.00....See I am out to prove to all the nehsayers that that sewing CAN be cheaper than buying and you get one of a kind and cuter stuff to boot! Heres to creativity. THERE!(sticking tongue out)

Hey on Tuesday you can check out other peoples DIY projects over here

Starting on Personal Christmas gifts

Hi all,

Well we are back for the most part. So I am posting some pictures of the Christmas gifts I am making over the course of the next few weeks. Todays pictures are of the items I am making for Aki Ann who is my great niece(my nieces daughter). She is 1 year and 3 months old. She is quite tall for her age and is wearing size 2T already. We have not gotten to see her in person, but she already talks a lot and is always asking Why? and What for? All the babies in our family always talk really early and ask lots of questions. So here they are all made from scraps of material I had laying around and the sweater are all ones that we found in the trash piles along side the furniture and wood we scavenge for. We found so many clothes this year it is almost sickening and lots of them were in really really good if not perfect condition. Again we say," Why people Why"? Donate, Donate, Donate!! Please. Anyway the first item I have made is a reversible jumper.

 

Here is a close up detail of the applique and the pockets on the reverse side.

The next outfit was a rescued sweater and scraps of material that was used to cover up some spots and the rest of the scraps where used to make a complete circle skirt. Always remember to make the front of the skirt about 1 1/2" shorter in the front for little girls sizes 2T to 7 as they stand a little bit differently than when they mature some. If you notice when little girls wear skirts they tend to dip badly in the front. Making the skirt shorter in front will help make the hem look more even. The skirt is double layered  and is great for twirling around in. All the laces and ball fringe are from the overwhelming stash I am trying to use up. Its going to take years I am sure.

  Any way so that is one persons Christmas done and dozens more to go!  I Will show you next Tuesday, sheets I made for our bed ,and some short intructions so you to can make luxury linens for a fraction of the store price. See you tomorrow.

THE FLIRTY APRON "I LOVE LUCY" SWAP

Well my swap partner finally got her apron. I was getting so stinking over excited about it. I did not post what I made since it was suppose to be a secret....So my swap partner was Betty aka Fudgie. Now let me tell you this swap for me was not easy to figure out what to send. Somehow I had misread the info that Shawnee had sent me and I thought it said that my swap partner DID NOT LIKE VINTAGE. All I could think is What? What's up with that? No way could I ask Fudgie to comfirm. It's suppose to be a secret swap right? So I rack my brain trying to think how I am going to do "I Love Lucy" with a modern spin. Oh, and to make things more of a challenge for myself I had already signed up for my six month pledge to refashion, not buy anything new and use only what I had. I knew my secret swapper was really jonesen for some "I Love Lucy" material on her apron, from her blog,but that was not going to happen....Sorry Fudgie. Oh! What to do? I watch a lot of "I Love Lucy" cd's from the library(Let me tell you, I had no idea how few of these I had actually ever watched as a child). Well after much back and forth and then hitting the unfinished white prom dress(that by the magic of the Salt Lake City clean up piles I had managed to snag in a clean box of unwanted half finished projects and scraps love, SCORE!!!) and seeing the Lucy episode with the Carmen Miranda song, sweet love I had my answer. So here it is in all it's upcycled, recycled "I Love Lucy" glory.






Well its modern, its flirty, as Fudgie says in a hoochie mama sort of way, and it screams Mamae Eu Quero. Si?

I Pledged To Refashion with Wardrobe Refashion

Hi all,

The Pledge
I Kimberly Cherrine-Bell pledge that I shall abstain from the purchase of "new" manufactured items of clothing, for the period of 6 months. I pledge that I shall refashion, renovate, recycle preloved items for myself with my own hands in fabric, yarn or other medium for the term of my contract. I pledge that I will share the love and post a photo of my refashioned, renovoted, recycled, crafted or created item of clothing on the Wardrobe Refashion blog, so that others may share the joy that thy thriftiness brings! Signed,Kimberly Cherrine-Bell

Got A Few Things Done Besides Nursing and Cooking Duties

Hey all,

This week was a little better, although I somehow managed to lose my drivers license,(never done that before!! Guess there is a first time for everything.). Nursing duty is still underway and I am not getting done what I should. Somehow I did manage to slip in a bit of sewing. All of it was done using scraps from my stash. Of course It does not even begin to scrape the top of the iceburg, so to speak. I could sew just off my scrap piles for the next year alone, I am sure. So here is the first item I finished. It is going to Etsy to be sold. Made from my linen(and this is some of the nice stuff) and vintage ribbon and trims stash. I think it is just lovely.







Then I also so made this mother/daughter set that was going to be used as a gift. And then I found out that the party I was making this for does not like aprons. What? Who keeps chicken, loves baking, cooking and being artsy and does not like aprons? Oh well. So this set will be sold too. This set was made again from my stash. The blue material was from a duvet cover inner material from my home that did not fit my decor anymore. The yo-yo's were from some tiny scraps from the stash that were only big enough for quilting, Barbie clothes or such.(I use EVERYTHING until the pieces are so small you can get nothing from them). The bias tape was from my stash and is actually vintage stuff. Buttons were from thirty year old stash








I will post more tomorrow. Bye loves Kim