Hi,

        I had done some wool works with crochet long ago.... One among them being a sweater for my daughter... that was many years back. She had grown out of it and I too forgot about it. Just a few days back,  I found the sweater in the stash of many more of the little girlie's old dresses.

          My brother had bought this soft wool in beautiful, soft pastel shades (Red Heart Soft Baby Steps multicoloured yarn) and this was the first woollen piece I made for my daughter. She could wear it for a few years as it was adjustable at the neck and at the waist, where there were ties. It is somewhere between a poncho and a proper sweater..
          I don't even remember where I got the idea for this dress from... 

 We spent some time to search for her photo in this dress, and luckily, found it...
The little lady was very excited to see her old dresses and photographs. Me  too :-)  It was like revisiting her chilhood... How fast time flies !!

Will be back soon.
 Bye.

-Chitra.
         

Hi,

    Last year was a good one, as I could do a lot of different works that I had planned. Among these, what I loved the most was the long skirt and matching blouse I stitched for my girlie ... that she wore for the wedding of a friend's son... Enjoyed the trip as well.. got to spend some good time with family and friends...

   Clock wise, here, are the steps in cutting for the long skirt or lehenga... The skirt initially was planned with 8 parts, but I had to add 4 parts more to give it the flare I wanted it to have. So the finished skirt has 12 parts.. Instead of a lining skirt, I added lining to each of the 12 pieces before I attached them together. I was satisfied with the result... Attached a cord with some beads and a tassle to the lehenga.

   And, for the blouse, thought of trying a different yoke.. And attached a short sleeve. I wasn't very happy with the finishing, specially the neck; had to attach a piece at the neck as I had cut it too deep.

    And when the dress was ready, my princess started looking at me for a matching jewellery set as well.. I didn't get time to make a set then, but had saved a design in my mind.

   Later, made a set with air dry clay.. a cute set with golden and maroon beads, and a pretty pendant.. there is a pair of simple earrings to match..

    My pretty lady was very happy to get a special dress complete with its jewel set in matching colours... and I was happy too...

More next time..
- Chitra.

Hi ,

It is a long long time since my last post...

Life has been busy... with job and kids, and work at home, how else can life be ??!
As kids grow up, you realise their childhood will be gone soon, and you wish time was slower...
I have been away from the blog for nearly a whole year, but I have never been away from my work...only thing is, I didn't take time to post those here...
So, here I am, with a few of my works...

I have been designing and stitching dresses for my darling daughter since she was little...
It doesn't require much to make a mom happy... you derive so much happiness from dressing one's princess...

This dress was my mom-in-law's saree.. a pure silk material in bright colours.... 

There were so many more dresses that I had stitched, but didn't photograph.. Now I feel I could have taken some shots.. Especially those that my daughter wore when she was not not even an year old.

These dresses were designed from my hubby's shirts, t- shirts and some dupattas... The third one in the first row ( the orange frock) and, the yellow tops in the second row were stitched by hand (didn't have the sewing machine with me then) 

This one was a dupatta my sister had, but never used... This pavada- blouse set was fully hand- stitched when my little prince was born.. The happy 'didi' was very excited with this outfit... The skirt has box pleats and there is a small applique work in the blouse.

The one on the left is upcycled from a shirt ( made into the shorts) and a t-shirt. The one on the right is a medium sized shirt re-sized to fit my girlie..

This is how re-sized the shirt...

Thats it for now... will be back later with more posts..

Bye,

- Chitra.