Fabric, fabric everywhere.

Friday nite I stayed up to midnight and finished Theya's dress. It turned out so cool and I enjoyed making it so much, I can't wait to do the next one for Maggie. Theya's is patchwork to match the patchwork blanket I made for her and Maggies will be fleece to match the fleece blanket I made for her. They even come with the little pantaloon things to cover the diaper. They were so easy to make too. Once in grade seven my mom helped me pick out a pattern for a pair of baby doll pj's that I got to make all by myself, with her guidance. I have been sewing "things" ever since, but this little dress is the first time since then that I have purchased a pattern and used it to sew something. I LOVE IT!

I inherited my mom's old sewing machines when she finally had enough of arguing with it and bought herself a new one. It mostly worked when it felt like it. I used it for simple things like mending and hemming pants for the kids and winged a couple of halloween costumes for them over the years out of my head. I always just imagined what I wanted to end result to be and then imagined how I was going to get these piles of fabric to turn into the end result. It was alot of learning on the fly and compromising the fabric, the machine and my ideas, but the end result always somehow worked out to be more or less what it was supposed to be.

2 years ago I purchased a brand new machine. It has served me well for all the hemming and repairing and I even made 8 stockings for Christmas that year. I can't believe I waited so long to purchase a pattern. I want to go and buy many, many more. I am going to sew a skirt for Kaitlin next. She wants a patchwork one like Theya's dress.

On another note. I made cookies today. I haven't made cookies for almost a year. Kaitlin has become the cookie maker of the house. It was fun, and yummy! A good warm up for the Christmas baking projects I have planned.