Making it Real Creatively

  Some donated fabric to the sewing lab prompted some new sewing for student samples.  After using this fabric for that, I took some of the ...

I have always wanted to learn how to smock.  A few years ago I used the pleating machine at BYU-Idaho to pleat some scrap fabric to practice...

 Is 'Aproned' a word?  I mean that I added aprons onto some of my dresses.  So they are now 'aproned.'  Okay, it may not be ...

 I had some really fun lace that I wanted to use.  With some ideas from 1940's dresses, I got started designing.  Some of these turned o...

Once I got going with these combinations, I started looking for matching buttons.  It was so fun to find buttons that would complement the f...

 I love using ribbon in these designs.  Sometimes I want to use a really wide ribbon.  How do you do that on a miniature dress for a doll?  ...

I had so much fun pairing my scraps of rickrack with cute small fabric designs.  Here are some of the dresses I made using rickrack to trim ...