Sunday, January 29, 2012

Dressapalooza - Dress 2 - Silk-O-Fun dress



Here is the second dress of the Dressapalooza series. 
I call it the Silk-O-Fun dress. 



It is actually a variant of traditional Indian garb - "Pattu Pavada" which looks like this below. 

Source: indiamart.com

I was sure my daughter wouldn't be able to successfully pull off the traditional look because:

a) She is 3 years old and has a protruding tummy (so typical of very young girls) which causes either a slipping skirt  or a rolled up shirt with running around
b) Sewing a tailored top like the above means you wont be able to use it more than 6 months, especially with very young girl
c) Too lazy to do the top and skirt separately


So I came up with this idea of making a classic gathered dress variation of Indian Pattu Pavadi. 

But the coolest part is, I have never ever seen this variation, ever! So if you see one, please let me know. But I think I nailed it :-) Seems like I did something on this kind of silky fabric that nobody tried before. Man, I feel like I need to copyright this thing. Something like this? :-) 


Oh, well. Go ahead, make it. 

After all imitation is the biggest form of flattery. So if you make it, please ...please send a link so I can just, you know, look at your version and feel good. :-)

Anyhow BN rocked in it. Unfortunately I don't have a decent picture of her in it. 

Alrighty. Recently I have something in my mind, like quilts!!

Monday, January 23, 2012

AN's jokes

AN makes up jokes every so often. Really good jokes for an 8 year old. Yeah sure, he is no Jay Leno or Chris Rock. But he makes me laugh. Fair enough. 

I wanted to document his jokes. So here goes a couple. 

JOKE:1
Why was the Missile sad? 
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Because he was "fired"


JOKE:2
How come the library is probably the tallest building in the world?
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Because it has countless "STORIES".

Did that lighten you up? I'd come back whenever he has more and post them here. 

Have fun. 

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Dressapalooza - Dress 1 - Polka dots in Sunshine

This is my Polka dots in Sunshine dress for BN. 






So after moving to India things got even more hectic. In the midst of all fiasco with settling in a new place, I took a drafting lesson :-) Of all the things I could do in India, this is what I picked. Man, I am so happy I did. Now everything is so clear to me and I am like DUH! Not that I think just a couple of lessons is enough to learn everything about sewing or you'd become an expert seamstress right after the lesson. But I am so confident that next time you trace around those patterns you are gonna know why the heck they have it the way they do.

A few weeks from the lessons and some trials, I jumped in and  drafted this dress for BN to wear at a wedding reception on Saturday. 

I love the back so much. I had this idea about pleats in the back and I didn't want to do anything over the top, so I added like 2 inverted pleats in the back in yellow. 

I love the way it turned out. It inspired me to make another one. That story, another day.