Little dresses for little girls

Last night I finished the last of the dresses for my former neighbour's kids, and this afternoon I took them to kinder to give them to her. The Mum was completely blown away, and when Middle saw her dress she hugged it and wouldn't give it back! The Mum also loved the colour of blue I used for Big's dress - matches her eyes wonderfully well.

Size 7 dress for Big:

Size 5 dress for Middle:

Size 1 dress for Little:

Here is also the dress I made for Princess-in-Training Zoe's birthday. Unfortunately it's a little too short on her, so I'll add an extra ruffle at the bottom like on Middle's dress. That hasn't stopped the dress being rather popular - I think it's been slept in twice!

All this dress sewing, and my own girls have decided they deserve new dresses to wear to their Grandfather's 70th birthday party in December. Back to work!

Quilting Round Robin

I'm currently involved in a quilting round robin, and so I thought I should blog about it, and show off my centre block.

Tada!

The round robin works like this: there is a group of five of us, and each of us creates a centre block. Then it's posted to the next person in the group, who adds a border. And so on, until each centre has four borders added to it, and it's returned to the original quilter for finishing off. It's a very exciting adventure! I'm looking forward to seeing all the work the others do.

I also brought along beautiful yarn hand-dyed by my friend (Em) in Adelaide, so I thought I should post the details of her Etsy store (though I see she currently has nothing listed) and her blog. She's actually having a sale at the moment - on her blog - to get rid of a whole lot of yarns, so they're both beautiful and incredibly cheap! Also, you can see all the colourways she's dyed, and perhaps order a custom dyed job. She's injured at the moment (going to have surgery in a few weeks), so her turn-around may be a little slow, however you'd be helping her support herself when she's struggling to work... not begging for her, just trying to help a friend who's having a pretty rough time at the moment...

Bitchin' Stitchin' on the Trams!

Although I was crowned in March, other affairs of state have distracted me from the important duty of blogging about royal stitching and bitching. A fabulous art project undertaken by the Melbourne Fringe Festival and Yarra trams has roused me from my silence. It combines culture, class, environmentally friendly transport, and fabulous stitching! GOOD CHOICE!

Over the past few months, I've collected a number of photos but haven't posted them. I'll work on correcting this oversight, starting with the most recent:
Princess Viv looks like she's making a hat out of some fabulous fuzzy yarn! She demonstrates flawless form with circular knitting on circular needles.
Newly ascended Princess Jocelyn shows off her newest skill--knitting on double pointed needles! Kudos to her for her bravery, as she narrowly missed having an eye poked out by a DPN a few weeks earlier. Sorry Princess Joce!
Princess Kate fastidiously knits some truly gorgeous socks. They're done now and have turned out to be both fetching and warm!
Princessi Eleri and Bek show off their projects. Princess Eleri had been struggling with several mostly-but-not-entirely finished knitting projects, but didn't let that stop her from knitting a really clever wrap. Meanwhile, Princess Bek mends a duvet cover an combines her love of scrap fabric with her love of not throwing out a perfectly good duvey cover in which someone (ahem, Prince Hugo, we're looking at you) chewed a hole.
Princess Em stretches her legs after some vigorous stitching. Stretching is very important, or the unwary princess could pull a muscle!

Will attempt to post more pictures soon!

The Librarian and the Quilter

I finished the quilt top last night, so here is the photo of the finished top:


I also called the quilter yesterday morning: she's going away for three weeks as of Friday (tomorrow), and then is fully booked until Christmas! Crap! But then, because I'm a valued customer and it's only a small quilt, she decided she could fit me in. Thank goodness! So there was no rush to get it done after all, but it is nice to almost have it completed by my goal of end-of-September (yesterday was 1 Oct).

On to other projects tonight!