Kind of in Limbo

Well, the secret project I was hinting at in my last message was that I made a sample wedding dress out of muslin. I mailed it to Jenny last week so she could try it on and see if it fits. And I am still waiting to hear from her about it.
According to the tracking [...]

Wedding Dress

Well, I said a few days ago that I would try to get pictures of the in-progress bits of Jenny’s wedding dress and here they are. They are a little bigger than the scanner, so the edges are missing, but you can get the idea.
    I have put down some basic embroideries and am now [...]

Catching Up

Just a quick entry.  The weed whacker blocks are all sewn together and one side of the saw-tooth border is on. I love it. Raymond is not so sure yet, but I think he will like it once all the borders are on.
Update on the kitchen items (placemats, napkins, pot holders etc.: I am disappointed [...]

More Wedding Dress. . .

  Here is a picture of the wedding dress off the front of the pattern. The bodice will have the CQ embellishment and the skirt will probably be satin or maybe lace over satin. Jenny wants the bow and the ruffle at the bottom, so I hope I can make those come out looking ok. The [...]

Wedding Dress Update

Well, here is a picture of the bodice pieces of Jenny’s wedding dress. The two top pieces are the fronts and the two bottom pieces are the backs. I have embroidered a variety simple stitches on each seam. Now, I can go over it again adding beads and bits of stitching to embellish the seams [...]

Checking In

No pictures this time. I have been setting aside time the last few days to work on the embellishment on the pieces of Jenny’s wedding dress bodice. There are two fronts and two backs. I crazy patch pieced them a while back and now am filling them in with embroidery.  I have almost all the [...]