Labels Labels I have Labels.

So I made my first labels.  I think they came out ok, I think I can make them better.  For now they will do.   Here is how I made them.  I bought ink jet printable freezer paper and ironed my fabric to the paper, then I opened up word and wrote my "logo", then I printed it directly onto the fabric (yes this works I simply put the freezer paper with the fabric in the printer.  You can only do it this way with an ink jet printer).  After which I cut them up and sew them into my garments.  I am so happy.........Well here it is

  this is an up close view..... I will add the size with a fabric pen.  I would like to make a tag that also includes washing instructions.  This will be good if I decide to sell clothes and even when I hand them down to others.

 Here you can see the fabric ironed on to the paper.  with this way there is no flipping of the words.  I also used a heavy font that I made bold......did this because I wanted the print to be dark.



You can also do this with regular freezer paper.  The problem is you have to glue the freezer paper to regular printing paper before you put it in the printer.  I avoided this step by buying printable freezer paper. 


Let me know if you give this a try. 


Bye

Miss J's Dress

I finished her dress awhile back but am only now able to post it.  Since this was my second time sewing this pattern it came out much better then the first.  I love this pattern and plan to make the girls a whole lot more.  I want to try and adjust the pattern to add long sleeves for the winter and lowering the gathering to about waist length.  I have 2 jackets and 2 more dresses (same pattern) cut out and ready to sew.  I am really behind on their summer swaps, I need to get sewing.

Ottobre

I got my magazine today. I am loving the patterns in this issue.  I love this mag, it gives me patterns for all my kids...much better then the top 3 pattern publishers in the US I have to say. I am loving that this issue has 3 hat patterns... here are some pictures...

Easter

Being the procrastinator that I am, I finished the girls dresses the Saturday before Easter.  I stayed up till 2 am sewing up the dresses. The first on came out better then the last on (sleep deprivation).  On the second dress I made the last button hole is a few inches lower then the button itself.  I don't like the way the collars came out.  I think they were a little to big, but all in all the dresses were nice. While I was making the dresses I realized "hey I can actually make time to sew", its just a matter of managing my time.  Well the dresses came out good.  They were from the Ottobre mag Summer 3/2009 # 5

Miss A can fit in a size 80.  The dress in this size fits her as a shirt.  So I plan on making more of these for her as tunic style tops.  Well enough with the writing here are Miss A in size 92(orange) and miss J in size 80(green).

I am still working on their spring/summer swaps.  Hopefully I'll get them done before fall/winter comes.