I’m addicted to your apples (thanks Tam). I don’t even balk at paying $5 a piece for them. Mostly. I have started making my own version of the apple pie apple. Don’t judge. Casey does it too. Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah…PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS HOLY, DO NOT SELL ANY MORE OF THAT DISGUSTING KEY LIME APPLE!

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I used this tutorial (only her frame is way more awesome and definitely not from IKEA). Fabric is more Heather Bailey leftovers from the ironing board project.

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For Sheri’s kid. I would donate a kidney for hair even half that awesome.

Pattern is this. Fabric is Alexander Henry, I believe. It’s been in my stash for at least a year, possibly two.

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If you’re going to come try to get in bed with me at 5 am, come up with something better than “my foot hurts”. The running and singing the whole way down the hall kinda ruined your believability.

Love,

Mom

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Remember my necklace? Rosie is having another giveaway. Go enter now!

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With. The. Onesies.

For Casey’s baby Paige’s first trip to Disney. Have fun you guys! (And I totally stole your picture).

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You know one of my issues is my addiction to diaper bags…and Petunia Pickle Bottom is one of my favorites. Their outlet sale started today. Go here. And I’m not really that nice. I already shopped. He he.

Random tangent for locals: The TJ Maxx in Jordan Landing also had 3 or 4 touring totes for $59.99 on Saturday.

Dear BC,
Calm down. I said “shopped”, not purchased.
XOXOXO

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***Campbell doesn’t usually wear skirts around the house. He just happens to be about the same size as Sheri’s kid, who I often sew for.***

If you can sew even a little, you can make a twirl skirt. And, skirts for girls don’t take very much fabric so even if you screw up big time, you’re not out much. Ha! Here’s my experience plus some patterns and links if you feel like making one.

If you’re afraid of gathering, try this skirt from House on Hill Road. All the gathering happens when you thread the elastic through the waistband. Yay! I’ve found that cheap elastic works better than the nice no-roll stuff. If you shop sales/clearance, you can make this skirt for under $5. And, you only need 2 different fabrics and all the pieces are rectangles. Super easy, but addicting. I think Macy has 5 of these in her closet right now. And her American Girl dolls have some, too.

The very first twirl skirt I ever made came from an ebook. This seller used to be on Ebay and I bought it from her there. I only bought the skirt pattern (middle left in that big mess of misguided photoshop) and it was way less than $20. The ebook was good, but I probably could have figured it all out myself in an hour or two. If you like step by step directions and pictures, buy an ebook. Here are a bunch.

I’ve also used this ebook. The only thing I didn’t like is that when made exactly according to the directions, the underskirt hangs out a bit far or weird or something. Here’s the first one I made:

And here are a couple of others I made where I decided to shorten the underskirt by about half an inch so that the top skirt hits right at the ruffle instead of a ways above it:

Really…they’re easy. It’s all straight lines and a little gathering. And I SWEAR Campbell didn’t keep any of these.

Try it. You know you want to.

Other tutorials:

Grand Revival Design

The Long Thread

3 Mintues and a Rainbow

Going Sew Crazy

Kuky Ideas

Dangit Ange!

The Merry Church Mouse

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