Palazzo pants for the girls...

Its long since I made something for my daughters. Something quick to make is palazzo pants  and I love them. I made with the same fabric for both the girls...

Both of them like it, so planned to make some more pants of this kind with variations. I also made one for me to match with my long kurti

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Her birthday dress

 

The dress I made for daughter to wear on her special day, her birthday. Some may remember this fabric. It is the same fabric I used to make her sister's dress. Actually this is another version with the same combo. Another matching dress for the sisters.

  I was busy with some personal work and started working on this dress very late, so I kept it very simple. As per my daughter's wish it was a long (floor length) dress with velvet shrug. 

 Some more views of the dress.  Back...

without shrug...

The dress is incomplete without the matching accessories. So, here they are, the matching hair band...

Necklace and earrings

Excuse the  quality of the pictures. The dress is wrinkled. Our iron box is repair and not yet fixed.There are some lines in the back ground. They are not  lines, I cannot just call the creativity of my daughters as lines. Either, the walls has the paintings by my daughters or there is no good light for the pictures.

Happy sisters...

Lunch mat

After a break, I am back... to share our crafty works...we enjoyed our summer holidays at my native. After a long time, I spent one full month at my mom's place. The kids were very happy, as they spend their holidays with their cousins.. they were super exited to see their newborn cousin. I made a small booties for him, will share it in the next post. Now back to routine and there will more updates here.

 This is what I made after holidays... Lunch mat for my daughter. It has two rooms for spoon and fork.

    We can roll and secure it using Velcro. Compact and fix well in the lunch bag keeping the spoon and fork safe. My daughter also loves this...

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Embroidered dress

 This dress is specially embroidered and stitched for my sister.She always loves my work and motivates me.

The material is cotton and hand embroidery done in multicolor thread. I did some patch work in neck and sleeve to enhance it.

Just another view of it...

Silk frocks for babies...

Just a quick post...

This is more comfortable for babies than pattu paavadi...

Fully lined with cotton, Back opening.

Specially made....

photo:uthaya

I couldn't believe this... one full year completed...how fast the days are moving... our little girl turned ONE last weekend.

 I made some special dresses for her and her sister. Traditional pattu pavadai and a cute red frock in net cloth.

At the back....

  she looks like a gift wrapped in red

 

photo:uthaya

I made anarkali tops for the elder one. she is learning classical dance and  very crazy with it...

 couldn't stand still for  a single minute without trying her steps...

    Happy together...

 

photo:uthaya

 

Back to sewing...

Hello friends, Started sewing after a long break.

 Its tough to find time for my hobbies but now I have planned to spend some time and somehow made it success and so there are some things to share with you. First comes the red frock.

 I made this for my sister to gift her friend's daughter. Hope this is lovely. 

As usual I love it since red is my favorite color.

I made some more dresses and soon I will share it here.

Girls top and pant

I made this top and pant to gift my neighbour's one year old daughter, for her first birthday.

The top is made from silk cotton fabric, the pant is plain pintuck cotton fabric. It is a sleeveless top with back open. I made some flowers using scrapes to embellish the top

Flower details...

The closer view of the top...

The back...



Hope you love this... Thank you very much for visiting my blog though I am not very active. Meet you soon with another creative work...

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A new dress

Little busy with some other work and couldn't concentrate much in sewing, blogging or other crafts, but I did some embroidery work. I made this dress for my daughter, after her birthday dress. Hope this suits for this hot summer... 

Sequin work with chain stitch and back stitch. The material is the blouse material which comes along with the saree. 

Details of the sequin work...

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I have made something...

Hello friends,

Wish you all a happy new year...

I was little busy, so a quite blogger for few weeks. There were some guests and I was sewing some dresses for my sister's new born daughter. We are going to our native to meet her this weekend and will celebrate pongal festival at my mother's home. very excited about it....  

I have to make some more dresses ...

Its long since I want to make a purse. I was looking for the tutorials and two days ago, I got an easy one.

Today I tried to make it and succeeded...

 I used the same fabric for outer and lining.

 Though it was not very perfect, I love it.

If you want to make one, then the tutorial is here. Thank you very much for  your comments and support. It means a lot for me.

Bridal blouse

As I said you earlier, here are the pictures of the bridal blouse I made for my sister's wedding. The wedding saree is traditional reddish maroon color silk saree .

The knots at the back are detachable.

  

The sleeves...

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Banded yoke top/frock tutorial

The draft contains two part, the yoke and the body. It is open at back for easy in and out. It is easy to make. Any one who knows how to finish a neck line can make this top/frock. Here I have made a frock, to see how the top looks click here.

Take a basic draft for top.

Measure the shoulder, here it is 2.5 inches.

Mark a band around the neck with the width 2.5 inches as shown in the picture.

  

Cut the band, this is the yoke and the other part is the body. Preserve the body part we need it later.

TO MAKE THE YOKE

FIGURE-A 

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1. Fold the yoke as shown in the picture. Keep the yoke on fold(4 layers, this will result 2 yoke pieces).
2. Mark it with 1/4 inch seam allowance.
3. Cut it.
4. This should result an oval as in the picture

  

FIGURE-B

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1. Keep the pieces such that right sides faces each other and stitch along the outer edge as in the picture.
2. After stitch the outer edge, the yoke band looks as in picture 2
3. Make  some  cuts along the outer edge.
4. Turn the band to the right side and press it. 

FIGURE - C

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Follow the figure C to fold the yoke and find the center part at the back side of the yoke. Cut it, it is the open at the back for button or zip. The yoke is now ready.

TO MAKE THE BODY

Breadth of the body=Chest+Extra inches for

                              pleats+ seam allowance

Height= as you wish

If you are going to make a top, 3 inches for pleats is enough, here I am making a frock so I have taken 6 inches (Note note the draft is placed on folded material so 6 inches means 12 inches)

Therefore the,
breadth= Chest+12 inches+seam allowance

Hope I am clear....Make the back in the same way.

Finish the armhole with bias strips.

I have used box pleats in the front(you can also use knife pleats) and knife pleats at the back. Cut the desired length at the center of the back piece for open

 The body is  ready.

 Now we have to attach the yoke with the body. Stich the yoke such that it overlaps the body.

I have  made some running stitches instead of using pins. 

Join both the front and back with the yoke.

FIGURE-D

1.  Attach the back and front with the yoke.
2.  Finish the back opening..
3.  Finish the neck with piping or as you wish.
4. Stitch the button holes and buttons.(sorry the numbers 3 and 4 should be interchanged in the figure)

The dress is almost ready. Join the sides and add ruffles if you wish.

 I have added some lace in the neck line and decorated the yoke with small crochet flowers and beads

NOTE:

• Material requirement( for 41/2 yrs old)

    yoke: less than 1/2 meter
      ( you may require more material if you making ruffles
       with the same material)

      body(skirt):1/2 meter

• You can decorate the edge using lace instead of ruffles.
• Instead a 'back open', you can make it at the shoulders.
• You can use an interface, if you want the yoke to be more stiff.

Hope I am clear and if you have any doubts feel free to ask me. Thank you for your wonderful support and comments, it drives me to create more. Meet you soon...

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