EASTER DRESSES

Easter is my favorite Holiday because it is the most wonderful thing that ever happened in this world. I am so grateful to my Savior for what he did for me and for all mankind.

 

                           
I had always wanted to make beautiful dresses for my girls for this very especial Sunday, but I always run out time cause I am such a procrastinator! I actually cut out this dresses last year before Easter , but I was working so my time was even shorter than now.
This year I took  out the cut out dresses and try to start early on them, but of course I did not! I started last Monday. Anyway, I realized how important it is to use a pattern, I did not for this dress, I had it in my mind and I cut it as I thought it would look like on the girls. They had to try them on several times this week and Estrella was getting anxious to wear her princess dress. But it took me longer since I had not cut them out to their measurements. Sometimes I wish I do not guess so much when I am sewing, I know I will make better things if I do measure!! and I will save so much time!!! grrrrrr!!!

They are exactly the same, just different colors and Isabella's had one less ruffle than Estrella's. The sleeves are a copy of one of Isabella's dress, I love them, they look like petals, I didn't give my husband instructions on what to take pictures of, so he didn't take pictures of just the sleeves. But they are cute, they are easy to sew as well, I think that will be my first tutorial, petal sleeves.

The ribbons are from some presents I got sometime when I was a teacher. The fabric for each dress is left overs from my wedding. I got a bunch of quilt fabric squares so my guess could write something for us and I am planning (still) to make a quilt with them. Someday!! So this are the left overs. 

This is how Estrella's dress looks like in the back as well, just the bow is bigger.  The buttons are little hearts, The pink fabric in Estrella's dress has pink hearts, so the buttons are like that. They are actually snaps, I just sew the buttons on top. (tricky me!) I was planning on making matching headbands but of course no time!

I am proud of this dresses for one reason, when Isabella put it on she started jumping and smiling and said: "Daddy look at me I look beautiful as a princess!!" When Estrella's put on hers she said: "Mami, I've never seen a most beautiful dress, I am sure I look like Cinderella!" that was my reward I need no more.

SHINY HEADBANDS!

One of the things about handmade stuff is that they almost always have a story behind them. That is why they are more valuable than machine made things that you can buy at the store. But some people don't understand that or appreciate it.
Anyway, these headbands were made as a thank you present for a dear friend of mine who watched my girls for over 6 hours!! She is pregnant and has two beautiful girls the same ages of my daughters, we have known each other since before we were pregnant with our first, then we were pregnant at the same time and our first daughters were born with two months difference. Mine is two months older than hers. Her daughters are just cuties and I love their hair, my friend always makes sure she does their hair nicely. I think about all those things when I am making something for someone.

I was trying to make these headbands like the ones I show you on a previous post, however, as it usually happens when I am creating something, my dear husbands gave me his "guy's" point of view and decided that they looked too dull, that they needed something else.
He came up with the idea to put two flowers of different colors together. The pink one was knitted with a soft bamboo yarn. It is only 5 points wide. I made a dark purple flower and a shiny, soft, purple, little one for the middle.

I like how it looks! the flowers are bigger than the ones I made for my first headband, which makes it look even better.





I think Estrella does a very good job at modeling it, he he he. I wish I could take better pictures, I've seen this other blogs with the best pictures ever, but taking pictures is not my forte, so please excuse them!

This black one is supposed to be more elegant, it is, but as I said, I have a hard time taking good pictures, I wanted to show you what I put in the middle, which you can't see cause of the light, but in the middle I sew 6 little, shiny beads that change color with the light, they look super elegant! Too bad I can't show you with this picture. :(
The bow is a shiny, cream, wide ribbon.
The part that goes around the head is also a little wider than the pink, I like that cause it seems to stay better in place.

My friend loved them and I can't wait to see her little girls wear them.  I am working on some other hair accessories, so stay tuned! Thanks for reading!

BOYS, BOYS, BOYS!!

I love boys!! I want to have one in my house, well a little version of the big version that I already have!! he he he! This is my first creation ever for boys!!

Thanks to Dana @ Made and her 90 minute shirt. It did NOT take me 90 minutes though, it took me a week!! he he he, I had to do and undo many times. But I think they look ok.
So here is the story of this shirts. My very good friend has the most adorable, handsome little boy I've ever seen, I just want to take him home every time I see him. She is also having another baby boy. So I wanted to make something especial for her and her little boys, but I didn't know what to make with my knitting needles, so I remember seeing the shirt at Made and decided to give it a try.
I didn't have a pattern cause I did not have a onesie that I could made into a pattern, (well I didn't really want to reap up one of them) so I kind of guess, I know bad girl! this was a problem because I ended up with a very small set of sleeves, thank goodness I was going to make a onesie. So I grab one of my girls shirts and copy the sleeves from it. They turn out ok. I also learned from my mother-in-law that when you are sewing ribbing on sleeves you always do it with with zig-zag because it makes it easier to stretch.
I bought the appliqué at Jo-Anns Fabrics. It is an iron on one and it was super easy to do. Then I wrote the letters with a fabric marker.

The onesie was kind of hard maybe because it is little. By the time I was done with the shirt I had decided that I was going to turn a onesie into a pattern so I could have better results. So I did, and I did have better results, but I had a hard time sewing the sleeves and having those little things at the same level. Notice the uneveness (is that a word??) of them, I tried, I really did!!!

Anyway, I did the same with the appliqué and the letters and I think it looks kind of cute. 

As soon as she can take pictures of her boys on their matching shirts I will post them for you to see how they look on. What do you think? should we try another boy shirt? I want to try something I saw at I am momma hear me roar, she has the best ideas for decorating boys t-shirts.