The Pillowcase Dress

I made my daughter this 'pillow case' for her nursery school graduation today. Perfect summer-wear and nice and easy to whip up. I had the fabric ribbon tie over one shoulder instead of the more traditional bows on both.

I love this Heather Ross Mendocino mermaid fabric line and can't wait to make more with it.

I also made a little matching head scarf. Super easy with some left over bias tape from the armholes of the dress. Now if I could just tie the scarf on without tangling and pulling her hair!

A couple more pictures can be found on my blog.

new collage

I've been such a slacker about posting here! Trying to get some new stuff ready for this weekend's Art for the Cash Poor. Here's a new collage, one of quite a few that I'll be selling this weekend. It is 7x5 inches, in a glass clip frame.

Odunde Festival

I made this necklace for the Odunde Festival. Along with others, it will be on display and for sale at Spacial Anomaly Gallery, 1944 South St., on June 14. Gallery owner and artist Nicole Pelligrini and artist David Carrozzino will be showing their works. And their is a lot of other stuff by other artists for sale as well.

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Horsey

5 dress

My older girl, Self-Possessed Tot (aka Math Geeklet), designed this dress for her upcoming 5th birthday. She ignored my suggestions of a tasteful pink floral and marched confidently to my fabric stash, made selections according to criteria known only to her, selected a button to top it all off, then held out the pile to me with a decided, "Here." She arranged the little scraps herself, asked me if it was okay if they overlapped, then satin-stitched them together. She asked for a pocket with a buttonhole, a prominent 5, and a halter dress style to be cool enough for summer.

She seems happy with the result. Phew.

Talk about easy

I bought a short strand of hurricane square beads and, with the addition of some silver tubes and spacers, there were enough beads to make these two bracelets and a pair of earrings. Stringing the beads on elastic is cheap and fast. I've made a bunch of these in different colors, including a couple in red for Flagfest at the Betsy Ross House next weekend.

New Bag!

Oh.... sorry, didn't mean to be gone for that long! Here's a little bag I put together this weekend for a dear friend's birthday present:

She actually gave me these cute little buttons, so I decided to return the favor and use one on her bag:

It's hard to tell from the first picture, but the lining fabric has cute little line drawings of birds & plants, etc.: