Projects done!

I think that I will be about as good with keeping a blog as I have been with keeping a diary.  Which means choppy and unreliable.  But I'll try.
I've been sewing quite a lot lately and I thought I'd post some of my finished and in-progress projects here.

I made matching dresses for my two little sisters and for my Mom for Christmas.  I actually gave them to them before Christmas so they could match when we went to see my oldest brother sing Handel's Messiah with his University Choir and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra.  I didn't get a picture of Mommy in her dress, but here are the little girls.

 I originally got the fabric to make my grad dress out of.  It was going to be a huge Victorian ballgown-style dress.  But then I managed to not have to go to grad :D and so I had metres and metres of this beautiful fabric.   You can't really see in the picture, but the ivory fabric is covered in sequined circles.  They look almost like snowballs.  I put same-fabric facing around the neck and arm-holes of Kristin's dress (she's the older one) not thinking about all those tiny little sequins.  She spent the drive into town for the 'Messiah' with a seam ripper pulling them all of individually because they were scratching her.  Oops. The blue is just a solid, cornflower blue satin (I just love the colour!).

Kristin's dress is a princess-seamed sleeveless dress out of the ivory sequined fabric.  There is a zipper on the right side coming out of the armhole.  The back also has a v-shaped neckline with a blue bow that snaps the closure shut.  I didn't get a picture of that because she was cold and didn't want to take the bolero off.
Sarah's dress has a high-ish waist and princess seams.  If that's possible.  I'm not sure if princess seams have to go straight from top to bottom of the dress.  I love the sleeves.  They were supposed to be even fuller than I made them, but when I first sewed them up, they didn't turn out at all like the pattern showed, so I took some fabric out of the outer sleeve and this is what I got.  The sleeves are lined to make them pouf more, and to make the gathering work (it's sewn onto the sleeve lining).  It looked a little plain, so I added a ribbon sash that is the exact same ivory as Kristin's dress.  The sash goes right down to the hem.

Mommy's dress is pretty much like Kristins, except I made the dress out of the blue satin, and the jacket (which is a proper jacket, not a bolero like Kristin got) I made out of the sequined ivory.
I have more fabric and I'm planning on making myself a dress to match.  I want to make it either a '40s or a '50s style dress, but I don't have a pattern yet.  I want something like this:

I also sewed this cute Christmas stocking for a client.

 She'd found a picture online of a stocking that somebody had crocheted, and asked if I could duplicate it with fabric.  The main fabric is leftover from a sheep costume we made for our church Christmas pageant.  I cut the antlers off of one of those head bands they sell at the dollar store.  The eyes are just little pom-poms and the top is finished with bias tape.  I used hair dye darken the face.  It doesn't look exactly like the picture she gave me, but I think it's close enough for having no pattern and two days to make it in.

Her husband is a hunter and she thought this would be great for him.  It is supposed to resemble a caribou.  The antlers are wrong, but then again their wrong no matter what animal their supposed to resemble.

Right now I'm working on a baby girl crib set and also a set of matching "Little House on the Prairie" nighties and night caps for another client's girls.

I've made so many other things in the last month, but I truly can't remember what.
I'm going to try to get an outfit post on here soon.  Thanks for your patience with me, I'm not a great write by any respects!

Laurel