New Knit Skirts

Some knit skirts I made on "skirt day"
My daughter and I were supposed to do "skirt day" together... but all she did was watch me... and ask for skirts.

This one is a maternity skirt that I made for Megan who is due in March. I've got two more of these half made. I made these same skirts for my daughter Nicole and both daughter in laws when they were preggers. They loved them and wore them afterwards when they were in between sizes. It's Simplicity 4704. It's a winner.

and these two are for my daughter in law Sharon.

I also made one for my daughter, Nicole, but I can't seem to find the picture. It's out of the same fabric as the maternity one... she calls it her Disco Barbie skirt. What can I say if there is such a thing as a Peter Pan girl- it's Nicole. It's New Look 6901
still need to make Sharon one more and Liz one. It's not that Sharon is my favorite but she goes to church every Sunday and wears skirts.
and... since it's cats and calico
here's a picture of my little baby Huckleberry shoving his grown up kitty body in a little box. I guess the $45.00 heated cat bed was a complete waste of money. ha ha

Maxi Dress and Police kick door in

Judy loves it. Such a quick project and she's totally in love with it. Enjoyed the fireworks and a great Texas Ranger baseball game last night. My oldest daughter drove in from Arkansas yesterday so we took her son to the game with us. She stayed home with her two daughters and another granddaughter. The two year old falls asleep and she decides to take the two older ones out in the backyard to watch the fireworks. They enjoy the fireworks and when it's all over go to go back in the house and one of the girls had turned the lock and they were locked out. So she is outside in her pj's with two little girls in thier pj's (no bra- and for Nicole that is a big.... problem)and her baby in the house asleep. She goes to all the neighbors houses and can't find anyone at home because it's July 4th. Finally finds a man down the street and uses his phone to call everyone at the Rangers game. Of course it's loud and no one can hear thier phones. She calls 911 and a very nice police officer comes out and tries to get in the house. I lock everything and nothing is unlocked. So he says sorry I can stay here with you until someone comes home or I can kick the door in for you. So she tells him not to kick the door in because her Dad is a cheapskate then Hailey says I gotta go poop and Ella says Mommy I really gotta go pee-pee. So Nicole has the policeman break the door in so the girls can go potty. He was so nice he told her to shove the couch in front of the door until her Dad could fix it and said he would check the alley every twenty minutes until the morning to make sure they would be safe. Which in our city is real funny because nothing ever happens here. How sweet is that. So alls well that ends well - a few nails and some paint and everything will be fine. Is she a mess or what. So hope you all had a happy July 4th. Love my country.

PS- If you think Judy was blond last week she was. One of her best friends is a wonderful hairdresser and she is always doing Judy's hair for her.

Nicole's last minute dress for the Wedding

Nicole couldn't find anything to fit for the wedding. So thursday night before the saturday wedding we cut out this dress from a old OOP pattern by New Look for a woven crossover dress. Went down a size since we used knit fabric. Got up early and finished before I went to work on friday. This is a black and white poly knit from Joann fabrics and the yellow cotton lycra knit from fabric.com. I used a light weight tricot netting to line it with. Removed the zipper. Did a full bust adjustment and added about 5/8" to the front edges for coverage. We added a lot of ease to the skirt so it would be comfortalble and easy to walk down the steps in. Used yellow knit to bind edges and decided to add a small band of the yellow under the bust. This added an additional pop of color and helped pull the dress in tight under the chest. As an added measure I also zig zagged some clear elastic under the bust to make sure it didn't stretch out as she was wearing the dress. It fit her wonderfully but she wasn't in love with it. After she wore it she liked it better. She kept telling me she wanted a dress that would make her look like her little sister. Whom is 2 1/2" taller and many pounds thinner. I told her if I could make that dress I'd be a very wealthy woman and I'd be busy making myself one first.