No Sew Doll Dress

Happy Friday!!!  I hope you all get to enjoy the long weekend. But before you go off to start your exciting plans heres an easy DIY Doll Dress Tutorial modeled by my Journey Doll Chavonne. 

These dresses were made using two sleeves from a long sleeved thermal type shirt from Old Navy (Medium Size). I loved the pattern but hated the fabric which felt itchy on my sensitive skin. As you can or can not see, the shirt was snagged in the middle probably from washing or regular wear. I figured it would be of better use if worn by Chavonne instead of being discarded. 

All you will need for this project is a long sleeved shirt made from a stretchy fabric, and a pair of scissors. For the second dress I used some already embellished tulle type material on elastic that I purchased from the fabric store months ago with no project in mind, however you can use ribbon, a piece of edging from the shirt, or any material that you may have to make a belt.

1. Begin by cutting off one sleeve as shown below. The cuff on my shirt was pretty long so I folded it over after sliding the dress on my doll. I then cut off the bottom the dress right above Chavonne's knees.

2. Cut off the end of the cuff on the other shirt sleeve. On my shirt there was no stitching on the end so when I opened up the fabric it was pretty wide. I just tucked the raw edges inside. 

And you are all done! Yes that easy. 

For Dress two. You will be using the top side of the sleeve that was cut off of Dress 1. When you open up the dress and put the seem in the middle and flip the fabric upside down you will have a dress like in the 3rd pic with a cute fish tail. Simply add a belt and you are all done.

I hope you try this super easy, cost efficent project this weekend. As I go through my winter clothing that will not be worn next year I will be coming up with little porojects to share with you all.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend.

If you do happen to make your own dress be sure to post it or tag me on your Instagram!

~Darley

Mothers DayCards

Hello there. Hope all the moms enjoyed Mother's Day and are still getting the awesome treatment from their children and loved ones. For Mother's Day I held a kids class where we created cards and decorated tiny pots which held Cilantro seeds that my little helper planted me. I originally asked the moms to provide me with pictures of the kids but later thought the cards would be even more personal if they included pictures of the mom and their child. Since most of us do not have great pics on hand and definitely don't have them printed, I took pics of the moms and their daughters when they dropped them off for the class and printed them out on my home printer directly from my phone (thank you blue tooth/wifi). The kids cards were so beautiful and filled with love! I also created a couple cards using some of the materials from my kids class. Someone keep me from spending even more money at Michael's LOL. Here are some cards that I made and managed to sell (Yeah Me!) and a picture of the super cute plant holder. 

 Both of these cards are designed to have a pic added to the top.

   

I've already decided that our Fathers Day card will be more like a booklet... Hope the moms aren't too offended but we always have to one up ourselves on every craft right? I know you share the same sentiment. LOLThanks again for stopping by.Darley~

Ladies Night class- Wall Art

Hi there.

So happy to announce that my second ladies night class was a success! I had a completely different group of ladies from the first class but they were just as hilarious. Trust me there's nothing like crafting and laughing and having wine. The idea for this class started with Margo wanting to do wall art on canvas. She wanted to stencil the words live, laugh, love. You should already have that phrase drilled into your head by now. Michael's had canvases on sale so I said lets do it. I've done stenciling before and tried steciling with acrylic paint for my first demo and decided that it would be too messy and time consuming. I may have also had a mishap where I didn't pay attention to my spacing and didn't have enough room for the last letter of the word that I was creating but I'm not going to admit to that lol. Since the steciling was out I had to come up with plan B which is where I came up with the felt flower. I couldn't actually find a tutorial with a template so I had to come up with my own plan, and all of the ones I saw used hot glue guns on the petals which wouldn't work if I had 9 women trying to do it all at once and the risk of burning fingers....so I came up with a mostly basic sewing and minimal glue gun method.

The ladies definitely had a lot of fun and so did I!

Can't wait to see you at my next Ladies Night Class.

Darley~