First Dress

There are many wonderful women that have blessed my life,

 one way or another that sew. I have been blessed with a mom that is extremely talented with everything she touches, she is always here to give advice and help me fix whatever i mess up. My grandmother (mom's mom) even though i wish she was here to share her wisdom with me herself, i get a lot of it through my mom and also her old sewing machine a Bernina that was quite special in her day and is still extremely helpful and useful in mine. Also my Nana who left her stashes of wonderful fabric that i appreciate being able to sort through and find something to make a treasure out of every time. This project was originally hers.

I found this dress already pinned and cut out in one of my Nana's old sewing boxes. Not typically the kind of thing that i would be attracted to i passed it by for a while, until i figured that i was too worried about messing up a planed project that i decided it might be good for a try.

So yes this is not quite a 'me' style and um well remind me too much of the 90s, but none the less i conquered!

I also was able to learn a lot as a sewer. I made button holes, buttons, lace, pockets, and bias tape all for the first time! Plus i made the bias tape with my awesome bias tape maker. It was also my first time making a shirt color and button casing, which i am quite pleased with. So all in all not too bad of a project:)

The finished dress

Bias Tape

I have been having my little share of artful inclinations lately which regretfully puts me behind on cataloging them. None the less here some are:)

I was definitely blessed when reading through MADE I found a tutorial for making my own bias tape. This is yes a very small piece of sewing but it is used quite often and quite frankly is very tricky to work with matching colors of material and bias tape. After I saw the tutorial i bought myself a bias tape maker (clover brand--which i love) and decided to use it on/for the project that i was working on at that time. 

The very easy process of bias tape making...

When my projects are finished there will be more enjoyable pictures of how it looks sewed on the finished project.