Since this blog is supposed to be dedicated to my sewing and other art pursuits, I have decided to start a new one called, Baby Girl's Observations, that will give me an outlet for writing about my mother and the other wonderful folks at the nursing home with her. I want to try to get inside their heads and write about what I observe. I am calling it Baby Girl's Observations because I am my mother's baby girl, but yet, even though she knows me and that I am her youngest daughter, there are times that she thinks there is another baby girl at home who no one will bring to visit her. Her name is also Julia. I recently was told by my mom to buy her some shoes, which I told her I did. I was also forced into telling her that school was out for the year and that Julia made straight A's on her report card because she was very concerned that Julia wasn't doing her work. She wanted me to go talk to "MY" teachers about her baby girl's work. See, I want to try to understand some of this kind of thinking. I know I won't, but at least I will work out some of my frustrations by writing about them.
So, please visit my
OTHER blog if you are at all interested in reading my ramblings about my mom and the elderly in general.
Now for ON THE SEWING FRONT: Here's the other Barbie Dress knockoff. This one is different in color, obviously, but also in that the lower ruffle is narrower than the top one, partly because I didn't have as much fabric for this one. That really doesn't make much sense, seeing that the two dresses are the same length, but when I put the other dress together I ended up making both of the ruffles (tiers) narrower. This one also doesn't have the silver ribbon on the straps.
Since I didn't have a pattern for these dresses, I sort of combined these two patterns somewhat. I used the top of view C on pattern 2683, but since there was to be no band around the top or the bottom of the bodice, I had to make adjustments. I used the back bodice pieces from this pattern, too. I added elastic across the top of the back bodice. I sure hope these dresses fit these girls. I just kind of guessed at what I was doing. I sure hope this works out. I used the bottom part of view B of patter 4106 to kind of judge how long the portion between the bodice and the tiers should be. There again, I had to kind of make up what I was doing along the way. This red one is for one of our grands. I now plan to make a top for our oldest grand to wear with shorts, a simple sundress for both the 4 year old and the almost 3 year old, as well as, a shirt, maybe? for Little Man. I always try to make something for them to wear on the Fourth of July if they so choose. I am not going to use fabric that SCREAMS the 4th, but in red and white or blue and white or maybe a combination of all three patriotic colors. But, they will be able to wear them anytime. 
Since I added the new blog, something weird is happening when I add photos, etc.... so please bear with me while I figure this out!!!
3 comments:
Julia, I think this will give you a great outlet for the care of your mother. I created a separate blog when I started seeing too many of my thifting, and tea loving posts coming through my quilting blog. I hope your new blog goes well, and that you will be encouraged by others who are walking the same path.
Writing your observations about your mom may help your sort out your feelings. I hope it helps. Cute dress!
Julia, I think, it's a good idea to open the new one. Reminds me a bit of keeping a diary. This was always a really good way to me.
Sabine
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