Per Carrie's request of what I've been sewing...
I've been eyeing this dress pattern for quite some time. It looked so cute and easy and, best of all, free. I finally had an excuse to sew a tiny girl dress for a friend of my mine who is having a baby girl in a few weeks. I dug through my pink fabric, came up with some fun polka dots and strips and was finished with the dress in about 1 1/2 hours. So easy, so cute and so fun.
I made the dress reversible. I love doing this for two reasons - two dress in one and all your seams are enclosed, no annoying thread hanging down past your hem. I made the stripped skirt section longer than the dots and then folded it up and over to create the border along the bottom of the dress. I added some ric rac at the waist seam and also on the border seam.
She also has a toddler version and I can't wait to try it out for Miss K. Although from the pictures on her Flikr group, I'd make the straps shorter for the toddler dress. They look a bit too floppy for my taste, not cute little ties like in the baby dress.
Try this out, it is so easy and cute!

Turn jeans into cuffed capris!!

So let's face it, I'm not a tall person. I am constantly hemming jeans and pants so I don't look like the Little Mermaid. Today I put on a pair of jeans I got for $10 on clearance at Kohls....and then I remembered why I haven't worn them since I bought them. Wayyyyyyy way way too long. I thought about hemming them, but then decided I needed another pair of capris instead. So TA DA, I had a flash of inspiration.

1) Fold up the bottom hem of the jeans. If you are me, fold them WAY up. You'll have to play with it to get the length you want. Sew a straight line all the way around.
2) Cut off the excess. Zig zag the raw edge (which I did later and didn't take a picture).
3) Shimmy the seam up inside the leg to hide it.
4) Line up the seam so it's right underneath the stitching visible in this picture. Sew a straight line with jeans-colored thread SUPER CLOSE just to the right of the light stitching you see in this picture. Just to the right of the fold.


Did that make sense? Stitch HERE. See? It's barely visible, and unless somebody's up close and personal with your leg, they'll NEVER notice. :)That's it! Ta DA!! :-)