i am a country girl it would seem

this week i have busied myself with the old fashioned craft of making my own dresses! i made four in tote though three are really good. i will have to redo the first one because it's rather boring and not at all how i imagined it. but i improved greatly with each dress! and each one is hand sewn. it took me one day for the first and one and a half days for the each of the other two.

the first dress here is the simplest. it is a nice little shift dress made from a floral flannel with an a-symmetrical bib in the front and a little curve bib in the back. this dress is modeled after a dress my aunt gave me that i love.



dress number two is a model of my marc jacobs dress that is a favorite of mine. this one is a step up in complexity. three fabrics this time. a brown stretchy wool as the main body with navy blue sweatshirt fabric as the top shoulder and bodice piece. and a stripey cotton as the bib and hem trim. the front and back also have different shape. straight across in the front and in triangles in the back (think baseball tee shirt).



the third dress is the most complex. it involved a lot of ruche about the sleeves and the front/back of the waist. this dress is also modeled after a favorite dress i wear alot. this is made of cotton fabrics and a leather braided lace with little beads at the end! the first attempt to make grommets for the lace was futile. they fell off right away. so sad. BUT. i was ready to make my way through thick and thin. so i took my navy blue darning thread and stitched around the holes to make my own even better looking "grommets". this little dress is my favorite.



and that's not all. i made 8 little acoustic guitar pins for our tour. no picture though. yeah for hand made goods!