My godness shea you are patient!
I cant deal with cross stich it makes me crosseyed.
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My godness shea you are patient!
I cant deal with cross stich it makes me crosseyed.
Shea--You're really talented. Your wedding dress is beautiful and you looked beautiful in it. How special to have made your dress yourself. The baby blanket turned out really well, and I love all your cross-stitch pieces.
I wish I had more to post. Most of my finished stuff's in Chicago I think.
Those are all beautiful Shea! I love the style of the wedding dress.
Thanks! We had a Scottish renaissance wedding. Our little ring bearer never smiled. He was mad because we made him wear a kilt and all his cousins were teasing him for wearing a dress! He was so cute!
I hope our future daughter will want to wear that dress for her wedding. That's half the reason why I made it.
Can't wait to see pics of your stuff guys!
Oh my goodness, these are great Shea! You are brilliant! My auntie also gave me a doll and flowers out of paper but I am afraid that I have not got digital camera so I can't post their pictures.
That's an amazing theme for a wedding! I am hoping that God will grant me a Scottish husband, who won't be afraid to wear a kilt for the wedding.
If he's a true Scott, he'll do it gladly! :nod: My mother-in-law got a kick out of it because he's the only son with 5 older sisters. She thought it funny that all her kids were married in skirts! :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by thevintagepiper
Well, all the costumes I've made have been made for little boys, so I don't know how helpful I could be. ;) I made a cute little panda outfit, and then there was the tiger and that was it for animals, then came the fantasy characters, Robin Hood and a Knight and lastly, the cartoon/video game characters, Dark Wing Duck, Link (from the Zelda series), Luigi (from Mario bros) and Ash (from Pokemon). I know there were others but those are the only one springing to mind right away and most of those weren't made from patterns, the panda and tiger were but the rest of them were kind of pieced together from various patterns, the sleeves from this pattern, the bodice from that one and some of the items were just completely ad-libbed, Luigi's hat I just put together by looking at a hat my dad had that was similar, actually, I didn't even look at the hat, I remembered my dad had one that was along the same lines so I called my mom and asked her, how many pieces were in the hat, was there a band, how high was the top, that sort of thing and just made my own pattern. I was quite proud of that hat because I really had no idea what I was doing but it turned out pretty good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightshade
:lol: When I was a kid my dad's idea of ad-lib was to cut a couple of holes in a sheet and let me go as a ghost like Charlie Brown. When I was 5, I went to a haunted house and wasn't scared at all. People kept pulling my sheet off kilter and I could never see anything! :lol: The rest of the year that sheet was our ironing board cover. I remember seeing those two holes under the board. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Idril
That takes a lot of talent Idril! I can't ad-lib anything when it comes to sewing, let alone a hat! I must have a pattern or I don't know where to begin.
I tend not to use patterns....I'm too impatient. However, things don't always turn out that way ^_^
The hat was a little itimidating and it wasn't my first choice to ad-lib it, I looked and looked for something I could buy and when that wasn't happening, I looked and looked for a pattern but I couldn't find anything even remotely similar to what I wanted. Most of the things I've done without a pattern weren't very comlicated, various tunics and capes or whatnot but that hat was a challenge and it took more than one try, believe me! :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Shea
I forgot to mention one...or two...other costumes and I can't believe I forgot them because of all the ones my kids have worn, these were my favorites...Batman and Robin. There wasn't actually all that much sewing involved, the capes, the emblems and the cowl, which my mom helped me with, the rest was just creative choices in clothing. They were so dang cute and so enthusiastic about their roles...and please ignore the dirty couch in the background because it's really quite horrifying and embarrassing. :rolleyes:
:nod: Now that's what I call cute! :D
Look what I found.
This is what my Welcome cross-stitch will look like when it is finished.
Here's another one that I'm in the middle of. I've got quite a lot done on the angel on the right and the sky. It's been put away because Leo would rather me do a Welcome sign saying that it's more practical. Men...
Both are beautiful!
Wow, shea, those will look beautiful when you are done. You will have to post pictures when you finish.
It turns ou I have no pictures of the only work Ive done thats remotly showable..(it was a book cover case thing with a piece of somerset patchwork set in it) I made it for my grandmother and she lives in egypt o Im not going to see it again for a while.
But I got some dress patterns from my (other) grandmother and bought some matrial and IM goping to try my hand at making one of my sisters a sun dress.
But talking of adlibbing my Egyptian grandmother was amazing she'dmake these beautiful dresses straight from her head with no pattern at all shed just look at the material and decide what she wanted it to be.