I’ve been in a sewing mood lately. Last week I posted my ruffled dish towels and my little pleated purse and I just couldn’t stop there. I found this shirring tutorial over at Portobello Pixie and could not believe how easy it looked. And it was!!
First let me back up. For those of you who don’t know what shirring is, here’s a picture (image from Craft Gossip). I’m saying that because I had NO IDEA what in the world shirring was until I ran across a post about it (I wish I could remember where so Icould link up to it. They linked up to Portobello Pixie’s tutorial and that’s how I found it). Sigh. Anyhow……here’s the picture.
Loving to try something new, I decided to go for it. I picked up my handy dandy supplies from Hobby Lobby: fabric, elastic thread and regular thread. To my delight, I banged out one little dress in about an hour or so. Having 2 very competive daughters, of course I had to make another. I did take some progress pics but my camera battery pooped out on me so I took a few pics with my cell phone and all I got was the finished products.
Not too bad for my first attempt at a dress. I think I’ll make myself a shirt next. 🙂
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Diana
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NIce job…and that fabric is so cute!
Aaw that’s so cute!! Great job!
How very cute they both are. I wish I had a sewing machine so bad.
Wow! Those are great, so cute- good job!
I’ve seen some shirring tutorials online but have been too scared to try it. If you say it’s easy, then I believe you!! Great job on the dresses!
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Go D! Gooooood Job on these!! I should warn Emerson…. I might have to try this out on him! 😉
-M
Wow it turned out great, how did you find time for it when you were being bothered to death by me? LOL Love it.
Great job! I wish I knew how to sew!!!
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Cute and love that springy fabric!!
That is great fabric! Very cute.
Now I am going to have to try shirring sometime. Looks great!
The little dress is darling! I am just starting to try my hand at sewing…thanks for the inspiration!
I’m just gaining confidence sewing too. It seems at though you and I have tried our hands at very similar projects. I started ruffling with a dishtowel too! 😉 Anyway, I enjoy your blog and just joined up. Very cute dress, can’t wait to see more!