Look!!

My simple little tunics are ready. Yay! It will be available in the SHOP soon. 

I'm thinking of starting children clothes more seriously since I enjoy making them. I started end of last year with dirndl dress, but had to stop in between due to my MIL's illness. For me, family always comes first, no matter what. 

I've got few simple pattern ready and even picked up the fabrics. I just need to be more organized and  focus. Now, I'm working on a few custom orders for local customer and hoping to make a couple set for the shop too. Let's see....

Until then,

Happy Sewing

A busy month

Well, November is almost ended and I haven't written a single blog post. The last 2 months was quite a busy one for me. I'm trying to get my ETSY SHOP up and running again and starts taking custom orders. And also try my best to maintain my Facebook Page.

So, finally I started doing children umm..little girls dresses again and this time I put up a listing in my Etsy shop after a lot of encouragement from my dear friends Agnes and mbak Hany. All this time I'm making dresses for friends and relatives and I guess it's high time I take it a little further ^_^.

For the time being I'm offering a custom order for DIRNDLE dress. These ones I've made for Essy's daughter in Austria.

Second one is this birthday party dress. This one in the picture is my friend's cute daughter. I made the dress for her 1st birthday ^_^.

and of course this most versatile dress, peasant dress. Who doesn't love this dress. It's the most comfortable dress/top.

and also now I'm opening my new Etsy shop where I share my passion for fabrics. Do come and visit Chezvies' Supplies. I picked up fabric from everywhere I go, so you might get an interesting fabrics there which is perfect for your project. Here's the sneak peek of the shop :)

The Little Dresses

I've been busy making few dresses last week. These are for my DH's cousins DD. She's a chubby cute 2 years old (well, almost). It was lots of fun making this little dresses. I still have few more to make but that can wait until I come back from the holidays...I'm too excited to sew now that I have 3 suitcases to pack (worst part of going for a holiday)

Happy Sewing -__*

Midnite sewing

Lately I just couldnt sleep at nite. After dinner at about 10 pm (yup, Indian have late dinner) sleep is just avoiding me. So what to do? I started doing my sewing after dinner when the kids are already asleep. It was kind of peaceful..and I like it.
So here' s what I did today. I'm quite happy with the collar..it turned out well..:-D .

It's been a long time

It's been more than a month I haven't updated my blog. I've been quite busy in the past months. I've made few dresses for my friend's DD and making few pouches too.


I bought few back issues of craft magazines (handmade & country craft) from Australia and quite excited to make few items there...it's simply mind blowing ...

here's the pouches

and the dresses

and here's my WIP this week

Thanks for stopping by...Happy Crafting ^_^

Birthday Dress For Anisha

Just a quick post...My best friend, Wulan, last minute asked me to make a birthday dress for her little princess, Anisha. There was hardly any time. Until Saturday night we were still discussing what will suit her best and what fabric are available with  me right now. Sometimes back, on a wimp, I bought few yards of Dupioni Silks. I bought few colors and one of them in this maroonish wine color, which is go gorgeous and soft. It's polished dupiony silk. It shines beautifully.
And I had 1 yard left of crepe silk fabric in off white. I thought that'd be a good combo. Wulan is really easy to work with..and thanks alot for TRUSTING me, dearest. This is the first time I attemped making a party dress.
I had only 2 - 3 days to finish and as luck would have it, I have all the material ready, including the poly cotton lining fabric. Wulan wanted something that will be comfortable to wear on Anisha's birthday party. You know India is very hot during the summer, even with the AC on. So, we thought this will be great cos we don't want to make the little lady cranky cos the dress is uncomfotable.

We thought of adding a netty pettycoat to make it fuller, but it turn out okay without one. First, because there was nation-wide strike in India so going fabric shopping was out of the question, secondly, to find a matching coloir will be another hard task. Luckily, the silk fabric is 42" wide.

I sewn tiny faux pearls around the neck & sleeves, and added a bunch of small ribbon flowers in the sash.

and there's the little princess...isn't she cute???

Oh and I made one more dress for Anisha too..here it is

NOTE:  Dupioni Silk still available at my ETSY SHOP

So, that's all ...until then...happy crafting

Blue Knotted Dress and everything else

I've been a bit busy recently. Not so much of sewing though. I still have the Red zig zag runner to finish. However I was so excited with my new toy..Olfa rotary cutter which I finally bought from Yvette at Etsy. She's so nice to double wrap it without any additional charge.

I found this nice blog of Crafty Gemini where she gives video tutorial on sewing. Recently Vanessa started a Black & White Quilt A Long . I'm going to participate (yay!), since I've been wanting to make quilt for my sons. I hope I can finish it. It's going to be my first big quilt. So here what I've got:

And one more thing, I made this knotted dress for my friend's niece. Got the fabric from one of my regular shop. It's the last 1.5 yards fabric. I love the color, it's perfect for summer. I was thinking of yellow solid for the strap but I didn't have it in stock so I went ahead with the blue one instead.

 End of this week, my sons mid term assessment will start, so all the sewing craft related will be put on the back seat for awhile...until then...Happy Crafting

Lil Miss Sunshine

Still for dear Anisha...with the same style but this time I put puff sleeves and a little bit of lace on the collar and with a matching bloomers (diaper cover)

The collar & a bit of simple embroidery

The bloomers with ruffle laces

Thanks for looking & have a great crafty day ^_^

Little Dress for Little Missy

A dear friend of mine had a baby girl a few months back. She asked me to make one simple dress for her Darling Daughter...and I came up with this today...I will make matching bloomers tomorrow. I was just too anxious to post this one

The A monogram is hand embroidered by yours truly.

Now, she can show off in style ^_*

Thanks for looking & have a great week ahead..^_^

Done and Delivered

The last 2 weeks has been a hectic one...First, I got this "shoulder spasm" (what's the medical term for it??) which become very bad cos apparently I neglecting my body sign. I rest very little cos I got to finish few orders of both offline & online customers. The doc said got to slow down a bit and after few pain killers and "shoulder exercise" finally the headache gone. And since few days back I resume my exercise routine. I used to exercise regulary, but you know sometimes I get so lazy and lazier and lazier..and I thought I'll be okay without one...;)

These 2 frocks finally done and nothing's make me more happier than satisfied customer. When they rang me up and told me how happy they are and all my shoulder aches gone...(well, at least at that moment..;)

And few tunics that'd done and ready for delivery:






Then with Rizqi, we made cards for my friend's children. One is actually for her "virtual" b'day party on her BLOG . We had a great time. He literally likes the idea of playing with scissor, paper & glue ..oh and of course my ribbons..

(is there an easier way of uploading photos here?? I still do the "Upload & Drag" things, and it gets very tiring when I have to upload lots of photos..:D. Please share how you do yours..THANKS..BOHOT SUKRIYA ..TERIMA KASIH )

Yes...I was quite busy...

I was busy better-ing my self making all these small dresses....I had lots of fun making them..:). I got few pattern from Etsy and now few projects are on the way...I just wish I had more time..:D