American Girl Gala gown for doll and girl

My granddaughter asked for Felicia, a historic American Girl doll for Christmas and her gala gown.  I decided to copy the gown for Keely.  It was quite a challenging project, which I thoroughly enjoyed.  I hope to get photos of her wearing it soon.  Here are some pics.

Machine embroidery!

I bought a used Brother Duetta and am having so much fun with it.  Now I have to figure out what I can do with my embroidery!  Here are some things I have done so far.  It has taken me awhile to load these so they show right side up!

More costumes

I made a pinbib for a customer in Australia.

 It was fun to research what that was and make it to her precise measurements.  She was kind enough to send me a pic wearing it.

It was a Civil War era (well maybe not in Australia) pin bib.



Here is one Denise and I made for an 18 month old being dressed as Nacho Libre for Halloween.

I hope we get some pics from this one!

And we got them!!


















I made Riley a Superman cape but he won't wear it so Keely did at least for a photo.

viking costumes

I got hired through Etsy Alchemy to create costumes of characters in the movie How to Train your Dragon.  It was a lot of fun but a real grind to meet the deadline for Halloween.  My dear friend Denise pitched in and we got them done.  I am posting photos but they would be much better on real bodies.  I hope to get photos later

Here are Astrid, Ruffnut, and Tuffnut

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Casserole carrier

I've been meaning to make one of these since my friend Liz showed me hers at book club years ago.  Finally I downloaded some web directions.  Whoa - they were missing information and it turned out to be harder than it needed to be.  But I'm happy with it!  It is made with reversible quilted fabric and I also put a pocket on it.  Here it closed, above.  Open here:

and here it is how it will be carrying a cassserole.  My camera is giving me trouble so these are too close.

postcard for nephew Westin

Westin has sent me two postcards lately, one a cool hand sketched skeleton one.  So I did this one for his band.

This is suposed to be Westin playing his drums in the band The Thermals.  Here's the other side:

Riley's robot costume

Finally finished Riley's costume

Here is the helmet - front side with headlight

           Left side

Right side with hidden eyes

Back side - red lights

Now we just need a photo of him in it!

Finally got pics of Riley in his costume!

I'm so glad he likes it!!