Autumn's Easter Dress

As you know I have been miss crafty lately. My first big sewing project was my daughters easter dress.

 I followed a crochet and fabric dress pattern, this pattern for her ponchette via Ravelry, and the flower patterns came from SanzzieDrawers. I love her!  It turned out beautifully. After a few tries... the top was entirely to big for my 8 month old- she is a very small girl. I made adjustments to make the ponchette and the top of her dress to fit. The fabric came from an old pillow sham! I love it! Even her head band came from peices of the sham. Oh, the name block you see above is from Birdie Baby Boutique! She does a fab job and ships APO. Check her out on etsy too!

I have fallen in love with my sewing machine lately. I will be posting pics of her 2nd pillow case dress and instructions as to how I made it. Because the first one was a bust!

xoxo Tam

knitting

I have pushed it off and refused to do it and convinced myself to hate it. But, I may have convinced myself to learn to knit. It will be a in between moving project. But it is worth a shot.

So.. now I need to research and get on the wagon.

recently

Life has been fun lately. Autumn is becoming mobile. She is keeping me on my toes. I am making progress on her dress... Not to sure if I will do this again. Making this dress has been time consuming to say the least.

Life here in the Netherlands has been fun and is interesting. But I am looking forward to being home again. (to the military home is anywhere stateside!)We are going to go to Delft, Den Haag and the beach one weekend and we are also going to spend the night in Brugge. I am looking forward to it.

Our biggest delimas at the moment are Autumns birthday and shipping our rotty mix Brama. Dates and heat restrictions are not helping us out. We are just waiting for the papers before we can do anything....

I cannot wait to get to GA and have a REAL fish fry! The dutch eat fried fish but it is not at all like ours! And coleslaw and real american bbq! I cant wait to get bbq from the chruch where my momma lives. I am ready to come home... 116 days and counting!