Christmas Dresses 2010

To say that I like to craft, create, sew is a bit of an understatement. Having kids and a house (an apartment counts!) of my own has added more fun to it. Throw on top the sweet memories I have of my own mother laboring over things, mostly dresses, and you have a rather keen desire of my own to make Christmas dresses.

My mom is quite gifted at sewing clothing and following and adapting patterns. For whatever reason, sewing from a pattern sort of freaks me out and sewing clothing is intimidating. Good thing I had my mom right there as I made these beauties for my darlings. The other thing I wanted to do was not spend any money. Thanks to my mother's large (again, a huge understatement) fabric stash, I didn't spend a cent!

With the guidance of my mom, we picked a pattern that wasn't too difficult and fabric she knew would work well and be easy to work with (the blue/purple plaid taffeta is at least 10 years old, my youngest sister had a dress out of it when she was a kiddo). I didn't follow a pattern for the shrugs and I made the rosettes, headbands, and hairbows. There's no way I could have done it on such a short time frame without my mom to help, both with the sewing and with babysitting. She knew how important it was to me and I ended up having 6 hours total in one day where I had no kids to care for where I wasn't also sleeping. That's a first since I became a mommy! It was a delightful day!