Brag Photos

I love my job. Have I told anyone that recently? I am sure I have but I need to say it again- I love my job. One of the reasons I love my job is that I have the sweetest , brightest most creative students.

One of my students is Rachael. She is 10. Rachael is going to grow up to be an awesome fashion designer! Here is her first skirt she made along with the tote we made to match.


And here is the tote


I am so proud of her!!!



Another of my students is Daisy. She is 17 and studying fashion marketing and design.
This skirt has a zipper in the back. We also made a zipper clutch to match.

So Cute!!!!

Here is the skirt we just finished. We learned gathering and attaching a ruffle on this one:


Daisy is now moving on to clothing from patterns. I will post pictures of her next project soon! :)

Flower girl dresses

I finished the flower girl dresses!! Hooray! Yippee! Hale-freakin-lugia!! I worked on these for a month! Here they are!

They are fully lined with huge layers of crinoline inside. They have invisible zippers and tiny hems. The bows are pinned on so that the girls could remove them later after the ceremony .


While making these I almost got dragged into a bridezilla moment with the bride and her soon to be sister in law. I did my best to stay out of that but I have learned my lesson once again: weddings create insane, white satin spewing, hemline dictating, obsessed over the tiniest of detail that no one ever, ever, ever is going to see, monsters....out of what are normally nice gals.
I therefore, from here on out, am going to try to stick to my rule of not sewing for anything wedding related. I broke my rule for these folks as I used to live next door. But uh-uh. Weddings make people crazy and I have enough crazy in my life, thank you very much, without going looking for more.


Also , for the wedding I made organza swags to go around a railing that went around the center of the reception. I didn't take a picture of those. Sometimes you get so sick of working on something that you don't ever want to see it again. That was the case with these swags.
The bride's mom was very specific while at the same time being very vague about what she wanted- so I had to interpret her gestures. I created 8 "tailored, but not pleated, identical , but 'flowy looking', gathered at the sides, even, but on purpose, like you meant to do it, but it just happened naturally....swags". Yea. With ribbons at the sides and in the center to hang it onto the railing. I was happy to see them hanging at the reception and looking tailored... but not.
Again, here is my solemn vow- no more sewing for weddings!!:) :)