Happy Birthday Princesses

Something inexplicable happened a few days ago.  My “baby” girls turned five!  How did this happen?  I keep telling them to stop growing but they just laugh and keep right on growing. 

We had a lovely family party on their actual birthday and they are looking forward to their friend party this weekend.  I made them these cute twirl skirts from Growing Up With Rosie.  I know they are a bit frilly but I figure that they won’t let me get away with it for much longer.  The pattern was very simple and easy to follow.  They only thing I would say about it is that it runs a bit big.  Fortunately, I measured and sewed the one for my smaller girl first and ended up using it for my bigger girl.  I was then able to scale it down a bit more for the smaller one.  Of course you want it big and full and “twirly”.  I think that I would just take a few inches off the length. 

It also gave me a chance to try appliqué again.  I have been wanting to do appliqué for ages but have always been afraid of getting a nice zigzag stitch all the way around.  Recently I have found a lot of examples of just straight stitching around the appliqué.  Of course with knit appliqué like the dinosaur I did for the boys, it doesn’t matter because knit doesn’t fray.  Even using a straight stitch with cotton fabric is O.K. as long as you know that it will have that frayed look over time.  Guess what, I’m O.K. with that if it means I can finally try my hand at appliqué. 

I appliquéd a cute little cupcake on the peek-a-boo part of the skirt and on a store purchased t-shirt.  I think that they came out really cute and I like the button cherry on top.

 

I also was able to sew this cute little art tote for the girls.  I used a free tutorial from my favorite blog, From and Igloo.  My apologies to Christine for using the exact same fabric.  Lame, I know.  I had been eyeing it and trying to think of something fun to make for the girls with it and then I came across the art tote  tutorial and just had to do it. 

They totally love them!

Happy Birthday little girls!  Mommy loves you very much!