Monday, October 27, 2014

ANOTHER ELSA DRESS

I decided to try a different pattern and type of fabric for this Elsa dress.  It happens to be the same pattern that was used in the aqua skating dress that I finished making yesterday.  Not only the same pattern by Lee and Pearl was used, but also the same fabric.  The dress turned out great and I love it just as much as the one by Doll House Designs.  The two dresses are entirely different in style and fabric, but both depict the real Elsa dress really well.

This dress is made of four-way stretch fabric and most of the stitches were serged in order to maintain the elasticity of the fabric.  Sewing this extremely stretchy fabric was a great challenge, but it was well worth the extra time and careful attention that I had to put into this project.  Here are some pictures of the finished dress and two more that I am adding of the skating dress.






Saturday, October 25, 2014

LOOKING FORWARD TO THE WINTER OLYMPICS

I've been busy sewing today making American Girl doll skating dresses.   It won't be long before winter weather will be here--even in Mississippi--and we will be shut in watching lots of television. One of my favorite telecasts in the olympic competitions is the women's figure skating.  And the main reason I like them is because I love to see the gorgeous outfits that the skaters wear.

These little skating dresses that I just finished making were indeed a challenge.  They have to be made from extremely stretchy fabric--in fact fabric that will stretch in four ways like Lycra or spandex.   Because most of the dresses are made of different textures and sheer values, it is sometimes time consuming locating fabric that will work for this type of costume.  But I took the easy way out and bought a kit of fabric to make one of the outfits, and already had on hand some fabric from dance costumes that I had made in the past.  The pattern that I used was designed by Lee and Pearl.

Here are some pictures.







Psalm 4:8 A REQUEST TO BE HEARD BY GOD

It's been a while since I have posted on my blog; but today, the Spirit prompted me to post this commentary by Matthew Henry on Psalm 4:1 and 8.  In this passage David is making a request and plea to be heard by God.  "Answer me when I call to you, O my righteous God......"I will lie down and sleep in peace for you along, O Lord, make me dwell in safety."

"He (David) commits all his affairs to God, and contentedly leaves the issue of them with him.  It is said of the husbandman that, having cast his seed into the ground, he sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed springs and grows up, he know not how, Mark 4: 26-27.  So a good man, having by faith and prayer cast his care upon God, sleeps and rests night and day, and is very easy, leaving it to his God to perform all things for him and prepared to welcome his holy will.

In singing these verses, and praying over them, let us, with a holy contempt of the wealth and pleasure of this world, as insufficient to make up happy, earnestly seek the favour of God and pleasingly solace ourselves in that favour; and, with a holy indifferency about the issue of all our world concerns, let us commit ourselves and all our affairs to the guidance and custody of the divine Providence, and be satisfied that all shall be made to work for good to us if we keep ourselves in the love of God."  (Matthew Henry Commentary)

I hope all of you have a great Saturday, October 25, 2014.  Enjoy this beautiful day that the Lord has made and rejoice in his love, care, and guidance; for he is big enough to handle all of our cares, as we live in a world filled with chaos.