I LOVE MAKING DOLL CLOTHES

If you've never made a little doll dress, you really should try it.  It takes less than a yard of fabric for most garments and it's a lot of fun.  I made these garments last week and I fell in love with all of them.  I told my husband I had to have an 18" doll for Christmas.  Silly, huh?

                                                  

I am not a quilter and I almost always have fabric left over from the children's garments I make.  It's usually not enough to make anything in a child's size, but it is perfect for an 18" doll dress.

This is totally off my topic but I just recently noticed that a term has been created to refer to people who sew.  I have an opinion but I like Ardeana Hamlin's better:  "So call me seamstress, call me tailor, call me stitcher, call me needleworker, but please don’t call me “sewist.”  Ardeana is Asst. Editor of the Bangor Daily News and you can read her entire story here:   http://bangordailynews.com/2010/01/11/living/donrsquot-call-me-a-lsquosewistrsquo/

I Love to "Fall Back"

It seems like I am fighting the clock from the moment they make me "spring forward" and lose that hour. It's always sleep I lose because no matter how hard I try, I can't go to sleep an hour earlier just because we changed the clocks. And then when "fall back" approaches, I think about all the things I will do in that extra hour. Will I spend that hour on the computer looking at all the cute animal videos or listening to music on YouTube or any one of those things I put aside and save for that day when I have more time? And then the weekend arrives and there I am with that delicious "extra hour" just around the corner. What do I do? You guessed it...I fall asleep...

What I did today...and part of yesterday

I love making little dresses. This one was a little challenging since it is yoked all the way around. Gathering the front, back and sleeves onto the yoke was interesting.

LISTING TODAY AT GRANDMABENNY'S

Cute vest for the Christmas season. More vests to come.

You all recognize this one as the Feliz so, for the Christmas season, I have dubbed it the "Feliz Navidad"

And this is the back view of all the ruffles that make this little dress so adorable.

I am sewing every day so if nothing in the shop tempts you, it's probably not made yet. Come to Grandmabenny's often.

Little Boys - Part 2

Well, I finished it.  How sweet is this little size 6 month outfit.

Little Boys Need New Clothes Too!

I have been neglecting all the little boy customers.  A situation I am remedying right now. 

 

Isn't it the cutest thing.  I made slacks of the material in the bill and am working on the shirt out of the striped fabric.  It's a size 6 month.  The Lord willing, I should finish it up tomorrow and post it in my shop, Grandmabenny's at Etsy.

I missed Septober

You know.........the last couple of days of September and the first couple of days of October.  I do it every year.  I get so busy that it's October before I realize that September ended.  The good part is I am able to sit at my sewing machine and make garments!  
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I just love big bows on little girls.  They look so sweet.  I made this dress and it didn't call for a belt or a bow but it just screamed at me "I need a big bow!"  So, I improvised and created this one.

  

And who couldn't love cupcakes?