Extra Ordinary Bree: Extreme Makeover: Fabric Edition WEEK 2

Extra Ordinary Bree: Extreme Makeover: Fabric Edition WEEK 2

A Linky Party!!

If you would like to find a GREAT project from Blogland to try yourself go here.  It's Funky Polkadot Giraffe and there is LOTS of AWESOMENESS there!!



My Garden Growing

Despite the drought, my garden has been growing ( I know, shocker, right).  Today, while watering, I found a red (fine, almost red) cherry tomato.  YAY!!

Also, my Auntie Jill and Aunt Meisha let us thin out the okra plants in their garden.  Their L had helped plant it and there were between 5 and 10 plants clumped together.  My Sweet Momma thinned it out for me and I planted it on the outside row of my garden.  I hope it makes it. Here's a pic two of them in one:

More good news, My peppers are appearing too.  YAY!!  Here is a pic of one of my pepper plants and if you look closely, you can see the baby peppers.  Awwwwwwwwwwwwww.

My strawberry plants are producing fruit for the second time now.  SWEET!!

Here are some then and now pics of my garden.  You cannot see the okra but it is on far left in the after pic.  (And the wind had tangled the scarecrow cans.  Need to unravel them, AGAIN.)





 

Till next time.........

~Be Inspired~

Keeping My Word

First of all, I would like to say that I hope everyone had an AWESOME Easter!!  We had a GREAT day together and with family and I hope you can say the same!!

Secondly, in a recent post, I said I would post pics of Our G in her Easter Dress.  I have one for you and also, I made a fabric flower (using this tute) to go on it and a bow (using this tute) except I made three and put them together.  The flower ABSOLUTELY made the dress and I liked the bow too.  Both were EASY to make but making the flower was tedious.  Anyway, here are the pics:

Lastly, a couple of posts ago I posted pics of a breezy Warhol Dress I made but no pics of Our G in it.  I said I would try to post some when I could and here is one:

So, I have kept my word.  ( :  

~Be Inspired~

Easter

As I said in the previous post, I am using a pattern to make Our G's Easter dress.  Well, the dress is finished.  It went pretty smoothly considering it was the first thing I have ever made from a pattern entirely by myself.  There were a few times I had to sit and think, "How should I do this so it turns out looking right?", but other than that it was smooth sailing.
Not to toot my own horn or anything, because I know there are tons of people out there who sew and create better than me, but I must say YAY ME!!  I keep looking at it hanging there and all I can think is, "Did I really do that?!?".  I mean, I think it looks really GREAT!!  I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the fabric.  The yellow and pinks remind me of pink lemonade.  I am calling it G's Pink Lemonade Easter Dress!!  I cannot wait to see it on Our G!!  Here are a few pics of it hanging and of course, I will post pics of Our G in it when I can.

My Wonderful Mammaw

I remember when I was little being at my Mammaw's house.  I would play under the quilt that she had hanging in her living room as my Momma and/or others quilted.  Every once in a while she would let me make stitches on the quilt also.  It made me so happy when I was able to quilt like the adults. 
My Mammaw was always sewing.  She was either quilting, altering clothes for someone, or making clothes for her grandchildren.  Most of the time, she had all three going simply because that's the way my Mammaw is. 
There are twelve grandchildren, including my self.  Thirteen if you count the exchange student we had my senior year (and we do).  My Mammaw quilted us all a blanket by hand when we were little.  Our exchange student received a quilt also but I am thinking Mammaw had her quilting machine by this time. 
I remember her sewing us all Easter dresses and shirts for the boys.  Usually this was done just a day or two before Easter. 
My Mammaw gave me my first and only sewing machine.  It's a Bernina 830.  She bought it in 1981 for $1200.  This sewing machine is almost as old as me (I was born in 1980) and it still runs GREAT.  My Mammaw is the reason I sew.  She is a lot of the reason for all the good stuff inside of me.  She has done so very much for all of us.  I am so very blessed to have her. 
Now, usually I make things from patterns I find on here.  I would like to buy store patterns but I cannot seem to pay that much money for one.  I know I sound cheap when one at Walmart is only $3.50 but still, I am unable to buy one.  My Mammaw told me a couple of weeks ago that Hobby Lobby had McCall patterns on sale for $1 a piece (limit 10 of course).  Ummm, you KNOW I went and bought some.  Most of the ones I wanted were already gone but I did manage to get four (and the prices on them are $11.99 and $13.95) including one that I wanted to use to make G an Easter dress. 
When I opened the pattern and looked at the directions I was completely and utterly OVERWHELMED.  I made a vest from a pattern in high school but that was 14 years ago (OH MY!!) but other than that I have never used a pattern to sew.  Off to Mammaws house I went. 
She told me she has NEVER used the directions in a pattern, she just does it however seems easiest to her.  YES!!  I LOVE YOU MAMMAW!!  When I asked her if she could tell me how she said no because she doesn't know how to give directions but she would be more than happy to show me how.  GREAT!!  An extra dress for G, spending time with my Mammaw and I learn how to make a dress using a pattern!!  We cut out the pieces and she made the top.  I made the skirt, ruffled it and sewed it all together.  The dress is so cute and now, I know how use a pattern.  THANK YOU MAMMAW!!  Not just for this but for ALL you do and have done!!  For being your GREAT self and teaching me so much about life, including sewing!! 
Here are some pics of the dress and Our G in it:

Now, on to making G's Easter dress with some ADORABLE fabric my (you guessed it) Mammaw gave me!! 

Warhol Dress @ Made......Again

Awhile back I made a dress for Our G from a tute that Dana did at Made called the Warhol Dress.  I absolutely LOVE the yoke on this dress and had some really cute fabric that my WONDERFUL Mammaw had gave me so I decided to make another one for G.  Here is the result: 



Because the fabric I used was so light and airy (which means see through) I decided to make a diaper cover out of the same material also using a tute/pattern that Dana had done at Made.  I really thought it was going to be hard but it wasn't.  It was very quick and easy.  Now, I want to make a lot of diaper covers.   Here is a pic of the diaper cover I made:

Sorry, no pics of G modeling, forgot to take the pics when she wore the dress.  Busy day, lots of forgetting.  Maybe will post some in the future.