I am a member of Presser Foot. It is a blog which invites sewers from everywhere to unite on common projects. Anyone can join the club and sew along with us. If you get stuck on a pattern you can just ask the group for help and since everyone is working on the same project it is really helpful.

This month's project was from a tutorial on the brilliant craft blog DANA MADE IT and it was making a dress from a man's button down shirt. It was SO FUN!

My husband has had this shirt for years, but never wears it because the fit is weird. This made it perfect for the Shirt Dress. Because the print was so masculine I paired it with a femmy aqua polka dot fabric. This project probably took me 1&1/2 hours total and I promptly went to Goodwill on Saturday and purchased 2 more dress shirts for $3.00 each. For full instructions on Dana's blog click here.

I LOVE the outcome of this sewing project. I'm giving you two photo options....

Shirt Dress: Happy

and Shirt Dress: Cranky

Once in a while I create projects that just don't work.
You know, it seems brilliant, but along the way
something goes wrong and you stare and stare at it
and finally give up.
It happens to us all.
Remember this Dino Glasses post on the Martha Stewart blog?

But this past week I made something that I truly, deeply love.
All of the creative stars aligned and out came this simple, yet beautiful wall hanging.
It started with this mixed material feltie bird from Tessa Ann's Etsy Shop, a Turkish proverb and everything else fell into place.
And I adore it.
No apologies. No self deprecating side-notes.
I adore it.


Supplies: 6x6" papier mache canvas, felt bird from TessAnn's Etsy shop, wood grain paper by Cosmo Cricket (Mr. Campy), Green lined paper by GCD Studios, Yellow patterned paper by October Afternoon, alphabet stickers by Making Memories, Zooballoo Cricut cartridge & Cricut, pop dots, blue ribbon. Quote is a Turkish Proverb.