My First Ever Dress!!

My sister has asked me to make her a few dresses which I am really excited about, she is a very beautiful women and it will be a total pleasure to make clothes for her.

In order to get my head around what I would be doing for her, I made myself a version of what I think she is after. I finished it this morning and I proudly wore it around town all afternoon. I dropped in to see my sister who works for a big high street clothes shop in Nottingham town centre and she LOVED it, one of the other staff said it looked like one of their dresses so I was chuffed to bits.

I'm a bit nervous about this one as it is my first dress and I made it without a pattern....



Yay!!!!

Ah ha! Thanks to the wonderful Mr T here is another shot of the dress:







It's made from crepe fabric brought from Victoria centre market and has a Sabrina neckline, shirred waist and full skirt. It's lovely to wear and my sister is very excited to get her version of the dress now, we are going fabric shopping later on in the week :D

Love Lola x

Gracie's Fairy Tale Dress

This one is just a fix up but I'm still proud :D

My friends beautiful daughter had recently become sad as her favourite fancy princess dress had all fallen down at the hem and become frayed, so off she got sent to Aunty Lola's for some well needed R & R and here she is all fixed up and ready to be sent home to Grace to be loved and played with again:



And here's a close up of the fix, ahhh the wonder of bias tape :D



Fingers crossed Grace approves, 5 year olds ALWAYS give an honest opinion


20/10/2011 UPDATE

it's taken me a while to get this pic up due to various internet based reason but here is the lovely Grace wearing her fixed dress



And with her lil' bro William




Job well done :)


Love Lola x

Honeymoon Project

I would like to introduce you to a very special lady. I recently got married to Mr T, and in our guest book my sister and beau had left a message that was so simple and beautiful it brought me and Mr T to tears in the cab on the way home.



This inspired me so much that the day after the wedding me and Mr T rushed out and spent some of our wedding vouchers on a beautiful cushion cover from the House of Fraser and then during our "lock in the house 2 week honeymoon" I crafted away, sewing love and happiness into every stitch (vom I KNOW but its trruuuuuee)

Here are the results:


I changed the wording slightly to make the tense correct (as Mr T is a grammer Nazi!)




This is my favourite flower :D





I didn't use an embroidery hoop for this flower so she is a bit puckered :S





Mr T's favourite flower.





All you need is Love x

Hopefully in this picture you will be able to see the writing a little better, this was done mainly in satin stitch but I did back stitch the really fine bits:



The below writing was all back stitched:




And there she is...hopefully she will be around for many many years to come and will always be there to remind us of that amazing day and the love that me and Mr T shared with all our friends and family.

There was one more interesting message in the guest book, although for some odd reason just didn't inspire me to get crafting....


Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....







Love Lola x