Summer Dress

Summer is almost over here in Michigan and I had the urge to sew a summer dress for my little princess !!!!!!. I hope you understand that we all go crazy once in a while....its my turn now ;-).

I have a designer friend, who is preparing for her ramp show. Looking at her beautiful, awesome dresses I thought of sewing some dress. I have a handy model, who is ready to wear whatever I sew for her :-).

I went through this list of Melissa's 30 days of summer dresses tutorials and found a simple pattern from "Stitched by Crystal", which I could easily follow with the materials I had.

I picked some beautiful yet modern fabrics from my stash, which I got from "intrepid thread" a while  ago. I won a gift card for this shop at Happy Quilting Melissa's QAL. Here is the picture of one of the bundles of fat quarters I picked from the shop. Their service and communication is awesome. Fabrics are exactly as shown... Julie(owner of the shop) is awesome to deal with.



I selected three fabrics for the dress and here is the picture of the finished dress.



Here is the picture of the dress with its rightful owner....and the big brother, who wanted to be a part of the picture too :-).

 

She was running around with the dress quite comfortably. hopefully this will fit until next summer :-). If not I will definitely alter it :-). Thank You Crystal for the beautiful pattern :-).

Yesterday was Lord Ganesha Festival for Indians. We celebrated it in a simple way, yet kids had fun!!!!!!!.  May Lord Ganesha blesses and brings good luck to everyone out there :-).



We will be moving to a new home this month end and lots to pack and prepare. So no sewing for almost for a month(hopefully I can resist from touching my machine). ....Will meet you in my next post...till then be good :-).

Love,

Jyothi

Linking this to Crazymom Quilts  and confession of a fabric addict.

 

 

 

Quilted Laptop Cover

This week I got time to go through my "to do" list and the most tempting and needed project was to make a laptop cover. Our laptop was kept on the table without any covers. I was feeling very guilty to keep anything on top of it.  I found this tutorial from "beautiful mess" in my book marks, which I saved a couple of months ago and decided to follow it.

I used Robert Kaufman print for both lining and top and used fleece material for the sandwich.



If you are reading my blog for the first time, I am a beginner (or intermediate I would say) when it comes to sewing or quilting and I am terrified of free motion quilting (FMQ). It was time to start learning FMQ at any cost to call myself a quilter ;-). Fortunately my favorite online tutor Vanessa (craftygemini blog) started weekly FMQ tutorial and I got to experiment it on this project!!!!!!!!



To my surprise, it didn't take that long to get the hang of it and I could do it pretty fast!!!!!!

Well there is my pretty lady, who didn't let me take the picture of the quilted piece alone :-)...



For the first time, I used biased binding. I made my own biased tape. The binding was not perfect, but I could take that.  Finally here is my finished piece.





Only change I would make in this tutorial is not to keep 2 inches space on the sides. It is too roomy....I would go for an inch or so.  Since we don't carry the laptop with this cover, I didn't take the pain to re-do it.



You can modify the tutorial to add straps on the sides if you are planning to carry this bag along with you.

Meanwhile I took a 6 weeks online class on managing the WordPress blog. The class was fabulous and I learnt a lot (of course all in the 12th week...as usual I did the crash course myself and studied everything just before giving the test :-)). I applied whatever I learnt in that class here in this blog. I selected the user/mobile friendly theme and set up navigation bars to make it look more like website. I want to know my readers opinion about it... Please drop in your comments, whether you like my blog or not... What part of it would you liked to be changed....
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Catch you in my next adventure....till then be good :-)

Love,

Jyothi