another playdate
quick post today....
i first saw this joel dewberry print at gather here a few years ago. it was beautiful but i wasn't sure how i would find coordinating fabric so i held off.
a few months later i saw it for sale on fabric.com when i was order something else and this time i couldn't help myself.
however my initial instincts were right...that pink and magenta proved difficult to match. my next choice, a crisp white, looked too bright and distracted from the print. i was at a loss. that is until i held it up to some periwinkle left over from maya's peacock costume.
perfect!
i settled on making maya another play date dress since the first one had been so well received. it turned out darling.
even in the dreary michigan weather!
love,
aunt maggie
within an hour of finding out that talia was going to be a girl i went to my fabric stash and starting planning her first dress.
after a decade of sewing for other people’s daughters i knew sewing for my own would be fun…but i had no idea how much fun.
more flower girl fabric leftovers!
i was smitten with the true bias mini southport dress from the moment i saw it and couldn’t wait to make my own. however as we all know being really excited about something often leads to building it up in your head and being let down by the reality.
so for over a year now I've had a several yards of white eyelet fabric left over from the flower girl dresses i made my nieces for our wedding.
a few years ago I came home from work to the best surprise: the good folks at oliver + s had sent me a package of goodies! (i’ve already shared the first things I made from this package here.)
another back to school post!
maya started kindergarten this year and is the third generation in our family to attend the ann arbor public schools. so naturally a new dress was in order.
lets talk fabric selection.
back in may we went up to heldsburg for a wedding. the wedding venue, our Airbnb, the rehearsal dinner venue, and a fabric store were all within 800 yards of one another. combine this with the fact that we referred to the groom as "sargent substance" back in college and what do you get? I'll give you a hint" it rhymes with 'funk maverick bopping'.
