Wedding Dresses!

We went to the wedding last night, and it was beautiful. The ceremony was low-key and casual where it could be, and was very personalised. Including a moment of irony when the celebrant stated the 'law says marriage is between a man and a woman' part, given he has a male partner.

The bride and bridesmaid looked stunning. Aline's dress swirled out wonderfully in their dance, not just the skirt but the sleeves too - it looked amazing. received many compliments on their dresses. As did I...



They look better on the women themselves:

Recent activities in Gondwanaland

I hosted another small group last week, with just Princessi Rosie, Eleri, Viv and myself in attendance. I think we ate just about enough for the entire group, what with all the yummy pasta salad (mmm, avocadoes and cherry tomatoes) and apple crumble we consumed.

After rolling into the lounge room to stitch, Princess Viv "show-and-tell"ed her recent creations:
The Christmas tree with corny advent jokes.

Christmas stockings for Princess Viv's mini prince and princesses, with hand felted designs on them

And a lovely shimmery set of wings, modelled here by the Eleri-fairy (couldn't help it!! Sorry).

Then Princess Viv studiously worked on her Christmas wall hanging, cutting out the backing and laying out the applique stars for ironing on.

Princess Eleri unfortunately had to come straight from work, so was without stitching for the evening. Luckily Princess Rosie had a job for her and set her to work starting to knit stripy triangles to make into a scarf for her brother.

Meanwhile brave Princess Rosie overcame her fears and sewed in the zipper on Prince Brian's sweater. I've sent her some photos for a blog entry all of its own.

I'd hurt my back that morning so I wasn't really up for much stitching, so I just sat around and helped Princess Rosie use my ancient sewing machine. I did show off the dresses I'd made for my girls to wear to their grandfather's 70th birthday party.

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!