Cheetah Skirt Costume - Trenna

My sister, Emerald made this adorable Cheetah Costume Skirt & Collar for the Halloween photo shoot for Trenna Travis Design Studio from the Michael Miller cheetah fabric.  She had no pattern.  It's a circle skirt and she mad a little collar and tail to go with it.

Kid Scrubs Costume - Trenna

At the end of September 2015, Emerald and I made several Halloween costumes in just a few days.  These are the Scrubs Costume I made from Michael Miller's Cotton Couture line of fabric.  I used Simplicity pattern #3650.  How cute is that!?

Zebra and Giraffe Costumes - Trenna

More little costumes that Emerald made in September for Trenna Travis Design Studio.  Using Michael Miller's "Tallest" and "Mozambique" fabrics to make the giraffe and zebra costumes respectively.  The pattern used was Simplicity 1351, both without the hood.

Princess Costume - Trenna

At the end of September 2015, Trenna asked me to make a bunch of costumes for a Michael Miller Halloween photo shoot.  This is a Princess Costume made in Michael Miller's Fairy Dream Land & Fairy Frost in both light and dark pinks.  I used the McCall's pattern #M4887.

Pieced Pillows and Duvet Cover - Trenna

Pillows I made from a selection of Michael Miller's Cotton Couture fabrics in September 2015 for Trenna Travis Design Studio.  Below, you see the instructions I had to make these (my notes/math are in pencil).

I also made a reversible duvet cover in blue and white with red piping.

Girls Button Down Dress - Trenna

A cute little button-down dress that my sister, Emerald, made in September 2015 from the Michael Miller fabric called "Lace Up" using view C from the Burda kids pattern #9417.  Made for Trenna Travis Design Studio.

Girl's Asymmetrical Ruffled Shirt - Trenna

A little girl's asymmetrical ruffled blouse I made for the September 2015 release.  Made with the Michael Miller fabric Heart Sparkles in a light pinky-peach with white and gold sparkly hearts.  I made it from the Burda kids pattern #9402, view C.

Enlarging Shannon's quilt top

When Fabric Nosherie closed its doors in April 2013, Shannon gave me a quilt top that had sat in the store room of her shop since not long after she opened the store.  She had made it years before and had set up on a quilt frame to let people try their hand at hand quilting during some special deal.  There was some quilting done on it, but not much and the shape was rather odd for a bed - rather long and narrow for a twin sized bed.

The original part (as I tried to show above - sorry the colors are not the best in the first and last photos) was the horizontal stripes with the circles at the top and bottom. Along the left hand side there was two vertical stripes and on the right hand side was only one vertical stripe.  The back was green with white polka-dots.

It sat for a while as I thought about what I wanted to do with it.  Finally I decided that I needed to take out the quilting that was in it and make it larger so as to fit on a bed.  I picked it apart and pulled it out from time to time to look at it.  I looked through my fabric stash to see what fabrics I had that would go well with her color choices and found a few, but not as much as I would need to enlarge it adequately.  Then one day it hit me.  I would use the back fabric she had chosen and frame her quilt on the angle.







Finally, in the Fall of 2015, I finished the top.  It now waits for me to get my long arm quilter that I'm saving up for, and be one of my practice quilts before I give it to charity.