Sew La Ti Embroidery:
thrifting

The past month or so I have been running around like a crazy person (who am I kidding, I am a crazy person) getting ready for all my shows, I am finally done, I still have one more show on the 10th and 11th, but I am pretty much done getting ready for it. After getting past this weekend doing two shows at the same time, I finally feel like I can breath again. I usually am ready for Christmas by now, but I haven't really done much yet. I now have time to work on things for our handmade Christmas, but is that what I worked on tonight? Nope. This awesome vintage coat that I thrifted for $8 is what I played around with, started out a really cool blue grey coat.

Ended up an even more awesome coat that I think looks like something that would cost $250 at Anthropologie, but everything was thrifted, and probably cost me less than $15 total, couldn't really say, all the lace and doilies came from my stash. (I have quite an impressive lace stash if I do say so myself, thanks to thrifting.)

Yes, I know it's Halloween tomorrow, but these ornaments are one of the projects I have been working on.

I had to share them because I think they are so stinking cute. They are super simple to make too, I just sandwiched two layers of felt in between fabric, sewed it all together with the hang string sandwiched in the middle and the bird I first fused it on then I hand stitched around it. Ta-da your finished!

I also had to share what the lace thrifting fairies guided me to. I love all of it. I had the idea when I was looking through all of it to make a lace skirt. I think I would just start by making a white skirt and then covering the entire thing with all different lace, I think it would be so pretty.
If I don't post tomorrow, Happy Halloween!

I continue to go thrifting on Mondays and I keep finding awesome things. Yesterday it was a never been used vintage towel and the cutest tablecloth. I got all excited when I saw the tablecloth, I love the big flowers and the colors.

Here are some recent fabric purchases. I snatched up some of Anna Maria Horner's innocent crush, I love, love, love the star burst print. Those bird cages are from JoAnn's.
I have been having a crush on gingham lately and found the grey and tangerine colors and had to have it.

The third and final Easter dress, yay I'm done! This one is for my youngest Sage. She tells me she doesn't like it, but she often changes her mind, we'll see. They all get to wear them tonight, my mother-in-law is having pictures taken of them, we even bought flip-flops to match yesterday, hooray for $2.50 flip flops at Old Navy!

This dress is for my oldest Kinsley. Again I started with a thrifted slip and added vintage lace and ribbons and colorful doilies. A ruffle at the bottom for extra length and another ruffle on the front, a little different from the first dress, but I tried to make as much the same as possible, so there's no "Mom, why is her dress cuter than mine?"
I am smitten with these slip dresses.

After I finished this slip dress I was too excited not to share it. This one is for Jade my middle daughter. I started with a thrifted slip and added more length with a ruffle at the bottom, then added vintage lace and ribbons and a couple brightly colored crocheted doilies that I purchased on Etsy awhile back with this in mind. And a ruffle down the front!

Now I'm thinking I want a new Easter slipdress for myself.