Modest is Hottest

• Natalie thought up the post title. Hmmmm :)
• Caroline and Natalie are modeling the dresses I bought for 7 dollars on clearance at American Eagle. The only problem was that they were too short. Here is how I refashioned them. On Caroline's dress, I let out the hem and added some eyelet. For Natalie's, I added a 2 1/2 inch trim to the bottom. They both were happy with the results.
• Funny story about Natalie's dress. Natalie wore this to school the other day. While practicing in social dance she notice her partner had a funny look on his face. She followed where his eyes were staring and realized her dress had slipped down past her chest!! (good thing she had a shade t-shirt on). For the test, he told her he would hold it up. hahahaha---I guess I need add some ribbon or straps.

Homemade Aprons

Last Friday Natalie and I attended Al's sewing birthday party.  Al graduated in fashion design from BYU and is always coming up with creative projects.  She copied this pattern from one of her aprons.  I thought they turned out cute.  If I make another one I will double over the bias tape like on Natalie's Apron so it is thinner.  It was fun to do a project with all my sisters and sister-laws. 

More pants

Caroline wanted some t-shirt pants like Al's.  She took Jake's shirt he made last summer that was too small and turned them into some wild pants.  She says they are her dancing pants.  

T-SHIRT PANTS

Al cutting up t-shirt for future pants for Becca.

Al came down to Mapleton with her kids and as always was motivated to work on a project. The pants Natalie and I are wearing used to be t-shirts.  Natalie's blue tie dye was Johnny's shirt --hopefully he will not remember it when he gets home in a year.  Mine was a black t-shirt with the Swiss army logo centered on the front.  Al made some out of a more wild colored tie dye shirt but didn't want to be photographed.  We cut up the bottom of different older shirts for the foldover waist band.  It was a fun project that used otherwise unwanted shirts.  They are super comfortable.  We made a pair for Becca for transition post baby wear.  Al is making some for her little girls but using a pattern and laying it on the finished edge.  The idea is from Al's friend blogspot www.thismamamakesstuff.com.  It has a link on directions.  Great easy summer project.