Of Stars and Stripes

July 4th.

Independence Day.

In times past, I have made Honey Bunch and myself fun shirts to wear on the 4th.

This set is from 2011, where I used old T-shirts and flowers from Dollar Tree.

2012 set

This time around, I have another daughter to sew for. I also decided to make a shirt for Hubby. Since I've had so much fun fabric painting, I decided to go with that. I was going to do and American Flag, but decided it would be fun to do our states. The ones we were born in. I used this freezer paper method before. I found my images by doing a Google search.

Here is my states, cut out, ironed on, and waiting to be painted. I decided not to do stars on mine and the girls' shirts, but use white buttons instead. (Buttons aren't manly, so I did stars for the Man.)

White is painted. It took a couple days because I had to let the paint dry in between colors.

Kentucky

 

 

Tennessee

 

Georgia

 

Rocking their Georgia Shirts.

Another Party Dress (or two)

Last month I was madly doing some last minute sewing for a bridesmaid dress for myself, when I decided that I wanted to make Adeline and Georgiana matching dresses for the same wedding. I literally finished them the day we packed and left for the wedding. 

I used this pattern one other time (A Little Bit of Sewing), but loved it way more this time. I think I'll probably use it a lot. Once I read the directions a few times, it was a breeze to sew. (if you have the pattern, I found the second set of bodice instructions so much simpler)

The back is supposed to be a long belt, but I didn't have enough fabric, so I just made it attached.

For the underpants for Georgi's outfit, I used Simplicity 2425.

Iwasn't to keen on having a huge belt for Georgiana dress, as I thought it would probably be very uncomfortable to lay on, so I skipped that entirely.

The back is supposed to close with loops like Adeline's dress, but I didn't feel like making such tiny loops, and I didn't think they'd hold right with the small buttons on Georgi's, so I used hair ties!! I've been meaning to replace them, since they are sort of different sizes, and all I had, but I just haven't gotten around to it.

My beautiful babes. rockin' their Party dresses.