Lots going on…..

I’ve been busy doing lots of little things recently. I had a very disappointing result with the last step of the Duffy Dress. I was unable to attach the skirt to the bodice even with redoing the faux point on the front of the skirt. Ultimately the only solution is to redo the entire skirt. The combination of stiffener, velvet bias binding and layers of fabric proved just too much for all of the machines I tried to do the attaching. I ordered new stiffener, which is thinner.


It arrived on Friday!! Yea. So I opened it up today to check it out and start cutting and ironing it out flat.

I also will need to satin stitch each of the panels on the front of the skirt. This is very time consuming and eventually would add more to the overall cost of the dress. For now I am moving forward the plans as they have been in place. We’ve adjusted a few other aspects of the skirt….shorter panels! So…while waiting for the new stiffener I redid all of the embroidery. That went well. To keep me happy while the embroidery machine was busy…I put my serger to work making small summer dresses.

These two will be donated by Murphydresses to the Pillowcase Project which can be found on facebook. They will be sent to girls in Uganda, and there will be several hundred sent in each batch. Each dress made by a person just like me!
I also like to make a few summer outfits for my niece Chloe. It’s so much fun sewing for a little girls…and it goes so quickly. All told for her outfits and the donation dresses I spent maybe three days working on them while I was doing the embroidery. It is so satisfying to start and finish something this quickly! So here are Chloe’s new togs….

This is her Keep Bo away dress….her brother is none too fond of kitty’s!!!

This is the Latte with Mommy dress….it will be seen at the nearest Starbucks sometime soon!

Here is the Sunshine Outfit…guaranteed to make the rain disappear!

So my fun summer sewing time is over. I am very excited to complete the skirt with the new plans for Duffy. It’s coming along pretty well so far, I started the construction on the panels this afternoon. I do anticipate that it will take at least until the end of next week to finish the panels. We are going to Buffalo this weekend for Tara’s Dance Workshop. Full speed ahead when I get back!