Vesper's Dress

Christmas 2011 Dresses

This Christmas I had 3 little girls to make dresses for. Fortunately, I got them mostly done in November before Mara arrived. I love the fabric Lauren chose and how the patterns all coordinated. I love Lauren's face in the picture of her and Mara.

Liberty Bag

I made this bag for the Liberty Elementary Silent Auction. Hope it does well.

Mara's Blessing Dress

I used eyelet lace for both Lauren's and Caelyn's blessing dresses, but I have always had my eye on this shantung silk fabric. It was a splurge but I didn't mind for my little lady and I thought it would make a gorgeous blessing dress. I LOVE how it turned out! I love the pearly white color and the feel of the fabric. It was so fun to sew on this high quality fabric. I love how the pleats at the bottom of the skirt turned out. I love the lace accents. Etc! Etc! I guess I should just say that I love this dress. Oh and the girl is also extremely precious!

For Aubri's little bug!

I had the pleasure of going to Aubri's baby shower yesterday and may I say it was the largest one I have ever been to! So I decided to make her a little dress for her soon-to-be new arrival. Aubri love the bright rainbow colors so I thought this was perfect fabric. Then I found these cute fabric buttons to embellish the dress with. Now all we need is a picture of her baby wearing the dress.

Miss Hannah's Blessing Dress

My friend Theresa asked me awhile back to make her daughter's blessing dress (she was pregnant at the time.) Of course I said YES! I love making beautiful things especially for great friends! All the blessing dresses I have made in the past I have used eyelet lace. However, Theresa chose lace over satin. So I went on the search for a good fabric lace. It was a lot harder than I thought it would be. Our Joann's has some but it was $25/yd and pretty fancy for a newborn. I found something I thought would work at the Fabric Depot (I love that store!) in Portland but wasn't in love with it. However, I finally found some at the Olympia Joann's (plus they don't make a stink to give me no sales taxes!) YEA! So here is the finished product! I must say in my humble opinion it is beautiful!

Messenger Diaper Bag on Steroids!

A few months back, Kirsten (my sister-in-law) explained to me what she wanted in a diaper bag. I made a prototype and sent it to her. She told me what she liked and disliked. I went to work on making a final draft. And here it is.


She wanted pockets on the outside with flaps over them.




Then I made cup/bottle holders on the sides.



It has a big inside compartment with LOTS of pockets. Two of which are zipper pockets.



It has one shoulder strap that can go on your shoulder or around your neck.