Dress A Girl Around The World.

 These are just some of the dresses I have made for the Dress A Girl Around The World Charity. All the seams are french seams so that there are no raw edges and the lace on the bottom is enclosed in the hem.

I am going to make my own bias binding this morning. 12 dresses done so far.

Costume Emergency.

Yesterday afternoon I got an emergency message for some help for the teachers End of Year Request for a Where's Wally hat. (Their party is on Friday) They were 1 hat short, so I whipped this up last night.

Christmas Shopping.

 Today my husband and I went out to do our Christmas shopping, Even mine! He gave me $50 to do whatever I wanted on it and straight away to Spotlight we went. I bought this lot of fabric for the Dress A Girl Around The World Charity at $3 a metre, You do the math to see how much fabric I got! This should keep me busy for quite a while.

This is our Christmas shopping, (for our kids though we give money in a card so that they can do what they like with it). The pet store where we get our cat food from (Pet Barn) is giving away samples of dried natural crunchies, so our two have their gifts too! Meggie is loving them!

Charity Sewing and Shopping.

 This is what I bought in Savers today. 2 lovely medium weight cotton sheets green and burnt orange and a cotton quilt cover. These will be turned into dresses for the Dress A Girl Around the World Charity. These are the patterns I will be using,
http://oliverands.com/blog/2009/08/popover-sundress-free-downloadable-pattern.html
and this one.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/38337162/pillowcase%20dresspattern_merged%20%281%29.pdf

I have cut out 14 dresses this morning so far. the pieces on the side are the optional contrasting insert bands.
I am making an early start on next years charity stuff because I think I will be very busy with the school later on in the year, More on that later!

A.C.D.A. Christmas Party.

 Yesterday we had our last meeting of the year and Christmas Party for A.C.D.A. (Australian Cloth Doll Club Association).  http://www.clothdolls.asn.au/
The committee provided the food and my job was to do the decorations and tables. It was a huge success and everyone had a lovely time, I had some lovely feedback for the table decorations too which was nice.

 Every year we have 2 swaps going, People can do both or one if they like. The top shelf is the pin cushion section and the bottom one is the Christmas Tree decoration swap.

 Some of our happy members chatting and catching up before they went to eat.

 Each month we have a Doll of the Month and those winners are then bought in for Doll of the Year. the winner of the Year was Doreen Backway, this is her link to her web page with the winning doll. http://www.rivendellstudios.com.au/default.aspx?ID=23&PhotoID=307&StartIndex=0

These are the pin cushions, always a delight, I forgot to take a picture of the Christmas decoration swap. It was a great party and looking forward to our first meeting in February next year.

Super Quick Christmas Decorations.

 I had this lot of pine cones for several years now, This year i have decided to do something different with them.

I have spray painted them with chrome spray for a silver look for the table decorations this year. This is with one coat spray, when it is dry I will add another coat and before it dries add some glitter to them. A quick re vamp.

Tuesdays Treasures and Pillowcase Dress

 This was a part of a sheet that I hand dyed, I have turned it into a pillowcase dress from this pattern,
 http://www.fabshophop.com/downloads/pillowcasedress_chop1.pdf
I will be using my hand dyed fabric to make clothes for the Dress a Girl Around The World Charity. This one though is for my Grand Niece for Christmas.

Melody Daly has a lovely blog http://thehouseonthesideofthehill.blogspot.com.au/ and a segment called Tuesdays Treasures, This is mine, A very cute Quick unpick, a present from St Andrews Market about 15 years ago. I just love it.