Dresses.

 I have been busy the last few days since I last posted making more dresses. This last lot make the total to 28 dresses, I have another 3 cut out ready to sew.
Yesterday I spent the whole day making metres and metres of bias binding.

Once the dresses have been made they are all put into this wooden box that I picked up from the Reject shop for $10, (normally it would have been $50, but the hinges were broken. I had a couple at home, (one good thing about hording stuff!) and it is all fixed. The dresses will be picked up in the middle of the year to go to the Philippines.

Bias Bound Dress.

In the last post I wrote about making the bias binding. This is the dress I have done today with that binding on it. In this way it finishes off the hem nicely and there are no raw edges since the side seams on the dress are french seamed.

Easy Peasy Binding

 This is an easy way to turn your strips of fabric into binding.
First fold your strip in half, iron, open up and you have your middle seam. Measure this and make a cardboard strip the size you want to turn in the sides and draw a line on the centre of your cardboard and line it up with your centre. fold the sides in and iron.

remove the cardboard, fold in half and spray starch and iron once more. Repeat all the steps then roll up your strip.

Crafty Stuff and Meggie.

 Meggie and Tilli, Love this food toy! A gift from my daughter and her husband.

 Unpicking some fancy braid so that I can use it in 3 ways.

I covered my table top ironing board this morning in the left over fabric from my daughters couch. I have ordered a sleeve board and that will be covered in this fabric too, Today is our Crafternoon day, the last one for the year, We will be having fun this afternoon.

Lily's Quilts Giveaway.

http://lilysquilts.blogspot.com.au/ is having a massive giveaway, for anywhere in the world, How lovely and delicious is this!Go to her site and check it out.

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.