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I went to joanns planning on getting some yarn to finish my shawl and knit a sweater for my mom. then i went to the pattern section. I have make a well fitting clothing on my project list. and i found a bunch of cute dresses that i wanted to make. but i was really stuck on this one, i went back and forth about buying it on sale it was 10.99. i mean come on that much just for a pattern and the paper is thinner then printer paper.

I wanted to try to make it with a really nice fabric. not really a good idea if your just starting out. but you know go big or go home. so i went for silky/ satin material. i got three yards and two different prints it was around 20$ each for those. so i put back the yarns that i had picked up. but i was so excited to be making the dress. 

i went home and just started cutting. i went for the shorter dress. and i went for size 12 in the pattern. but if it was a tight dress i would've had to go with a size 16. i tell you patterns in juniors run small.

i made the whole dress in a day, around six hours.

this is my first almost perfect peice of clothing i've made

pattern mccall m6113

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im working on making cross stitch bookmarks. im trying to make things for a fundraiser so that the knitting group can learn yarn dying or spinning. we also need to buy more needles and hooks for all the people who come to learn

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woo this post is way to wordy and rambin and such

ok so this all started off with me surfing cut out and keep. i saw these really cut paper flower. But I don’t have pretty paper then I remembered seeing fabric flower like that on craftster. But I didn’t know what they were called so I couldn't find them. so on to Google keyword fabric flowers. i got lots of different kinds but I was looking for what after ten minutes of crazy searching i found out was called [b]Tsusami Kanzahi[/b]. So I looked at all these different sites for tutorials that were easy to follow. Ehow was not the place they just tell you in words which doesn’t help me. So I went to the great and powerful YouTube and found this video. The girl in it I think her name is Sara; she was so cute and fluttered at times that I kept me watching her video above all others

 video

her blog

 Ok so the first two I made where crazy messy. I just had to redo them. Then I followed the advice in the video and ironed my fabric, I don’t have starch so I didn’t do that. But the flowers after that turned out great.  It could have been the iron or the fact that I just practices making them for an hour.

i wanted to use up some of my crazy shape and little pieces fabric stash. So there is cotton, canvas, satin, fleece. I have a never ending bag of (fake/plated) gold and silver buttons so I used those. I like the silver more so yea. I found that the buttons will sink to the center of the flower. The only way that I have found to stop that is to sew a little circle on top of the center and sew the button to that. then you sew a clip, bobby pin or whatever to the back.

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as im sure you can see this cat bed is way to small. i have no idea what size cat the person who made this pattern had. or my cat is just to fat i don't know. my other cat dexter can fit in it. i not sure if she like it or not. she like to sleep in uncomfortable places like toilet seats, piles of paper, table, drawers full of knitting needles.

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pattern- Cozy Pet Bed by Johanna Dzikowski

yarn- all different kinds for blue yarns that i had.

hook- J

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the quilt top that killed two needles. i got kinda upset with this one. I wanted to try to machine sew a quilt. my machine is very tiny and cute like a my first sewing machine . i just don't think it was made for this. so i had to make sure the two seams weren't stacked on top of each other. and even then the machine/I hade a hard time going over the seams. so i looked up this issue and im a puller, which is a bad thing i guess but i taught myself to sew. so i dont know how to just guide the fabric i've tried and its a crazy hot mess. so i will just have to see what happens when i add batting and backing. a machine fire, fabric being eatten, my finger being sewn to the quilt.

the to small red and blue scarf , the blue was turned into a cat bed. so that was frogged. still working on the scroll scarf. i should be going to joanns today so i can get the yarn to the shawl.

k bye

baby doll top pattern

Baby doll Top

size 10 crochet thread
size 7 hook


1. ch 31, join with a sl st into a ring

2. sc in each ch around (30)

3. *sc 4, inc* (34)

4. sc around (34)

5. *sc 4, inc* (40)

6-8. sc around

9. *sc 4, dec* 6 times, sc 2 (32)

10. sc around

11. *sc 4, dec* 6 times, sc 2 (27)

12-15. sc around

16. *sc 4, inc*5 times, sc 2 (32)

17. sc around

18. *sc 5, inc* 5 times, sc 2 (37)

19. sc around

20. *sc 6, inc* 5 times, sc 2 (44)

21. *sc 4, inc* 8 times, sc 2 (50)

22. *sc 5, inc* 8 times, sc 2 (57)

23. *ch 3, sk 3 sts, dc into the fourth st, ch 5, dc into third st behind first dc, ch 3, sk 3 sts, sc into fourth st*

24. * dc 2 into sc, ch 1, dc 11 into ch 5 sp*

25.sc into second dc of shell, ch 5, dc into last ch 3 sp of last round, ch 3 sc into fifth dc, ch 3. *dc into second dc of shell, ch5 , dc behind other dc into tenth dc of last shell, ch 3, sc into fifth dc, ch 3*

26. * dc 11 into ch 5 sp, dc two into sc, ch 1*

repeat 25 and 26 once and end with one more round of 25. after last ch 3 sl st to first dc of last round.