Christmas Twirly Skirt

Guess what? It's Christmas season and my kids have nothing festive to wear. And, I did the silliest thing ever: I misplaced my Redondo skirt pattern! I've been searching for it for over a month now and still cannot find it!

Out of desperation, I took one of Libby's skirts from her drawer and used it to trace out a new pattern. At least now I have the size 6 version of the pattern. I would freehand it, but it's hard to get the sizing and the swirls just right.

I scored some funky green and red chevron printed fabric and I paired it with some green and red polka dot. It's going to be so colorful and fun!  It will also double up as a Dr. Seuss skirt in March for his birthday celebration at school. Awesome! Love it when I can get two occasions out of an outfit.

I made one Redondo skirt for my daughter, and one for my Etsy shop. I wish I hadn't run out of the chevron print, but I got the end of the bolt so I know that's all there is to that. I only have half a yard left and that's not enough for another twirly skirt.

Merry Christmas and Happy Twirling!

Opened my Etsy Shop!

I'm so excited! I've been wanting to do this for a long time, and I finally got it put together this past month. I opened an online store on Etsy!

https://www.etsy.com/shop/MaryMadeIt853?ref=hdr_shop_menu

I actually opened it a few weeks ago and so far, I've sold two hats. I'm super excited about that! I've been sewing and building up a bit of an inventory for the Etsy shop.

I'm mostly selling items that I've given as gifts and people just love them. Those are the wet bags and twirly skirts. I'm also selling the duplicate items. Sometimes, I make two or more of something and give the best one as a gift and save the others to give as gifts later. This way, if I screw up a project, I have a backup. A good example of this is the Charlie Brown dress. I was asked to make one for a little girl who loves the Peanuts gang, but the mom wanted it sleeveless and I really thought it would look better with puff sleeves. I made both and they both looked good. I made four fox scarves too. In fact, I like those so much that I'm going to make more!

My daughters are outgrowing their deep desire for princess dresses. They used to beg for every dress from every movie and now they just don't want to play dress-up like they used to. I haven't outgrown it though! I still love to sew princess dresses and costumes, and so I will!  Someone out there will enjoy them if my girls won't.  I'm also going to sew more for boys.

Anyway, I'm happy to have my little shop open. My serger needs to go in for its annual servicing soon and I need more thread and supplies, so I'm hoping my sales will help support my hobby. I don't expect to get rich or anything, but why not make a buck?

In progress right now are child sized aprons, alligator scarves and reusable baby wipes (eww!).

I'm already looking forward to making a bunch of Christmas things. I think some stockings with names embroidered will be perfect!

Go check out my little shop and stop back periodically to see what's new. Thanks!