Prom Dress update!

No photos yet, sorry!

I have the bodice and the skirt + lining completed for Hannah's Prom dress. I have the overskirt sewn together and hemmed.

I was madly sewing away on the gathering for the overskirt and ran my sewing machine needle through my finger. That ground the dress making to a screeching halt!

I have been sewing on a machine since I was 6 years old, I have never come close to ever doing that! Let me tell you, it hurts. It went completely through my finger once and then the needle snapped in half as it was going through the second time, I am assuming it was because it hit the bone in my fingertip.

I am hoping to get back to working on the gathering tonight after work!

Have a great day!
Donnelly

Beauty and the Beast

Well, Beauty and the Beast is over. I am grateful that it is over and sad at the same time.

Grateful, because my feet are killing me from being on them for so long each night.

Sad because I really loved the cast and crew.

I have worked on costume repairs and alterations for the last 3 plays my family has been in, as well as ushering. This year I not only worked on costumes, I worked on props with my husband and was part of the stage crew. What a rush! I had NO idea how hectic and crazy it is behind the curtain. It is unbelievable. One thing I know for sure is that I will be helping backstage again for the next one.

In this play, Hannah was the milkmaid and a dancing plate.

Hannah as the Milkmaid and Keith as the Bookseller

Hannah as a Dancing Plate and Keith as a Fork

I am so grateful that Spring Break is this week. It will take a week to recover, I am sure.

Hopefully my next post will be about Hannah's Prom dress.

Have a great day.

Donnelly

A Big Surprise for Hannah!

Today, Hannah and I met my mom in town to have lunch and hang out. We went to Chili's and had a delicious meal and then headed to Hancock Fabrics. My mom needed some thread and wanted to browse Hancock Fabrics fat quarters. Hannah and I were there to decide on fabrics for her dress and to get an idea on how much we were going to have to set aside on Wednesday to buy what we needed to make her dress.

Well, Hannah's surprise is that her Maga (my mom) bought the fabrics for her today, so Hannah wouldn't have to wait. What a lovely surprise for both of us!

Here are the fabrics Hannah decided on:

The Chartreuse green is the underskirt fabric, as well as the waist fabric and the pink is the over skirt fabric. Hannah saw this color combination at a Prom Dress shop in our capitol city of Boise while she was there on Friday for State Championships for boys basketball. She brought me a photo home on her phone to see what I thought. This is going to be one gorgeous dress.

Dress making will have to wait until after Beauty and the Beast, which is done next Sunday. Lucky me, I have Spring Break the following week, so I plan on doing some serious sewing that week!

Now we just need to help Amy, Hannah's best friend, choose her fabrics and I can hopefully start on Amy's dress too!

Have a great week!
Donnelly

Prom Dress Patterns!

I found Hannah's dress pattern at Hancock's!!! She doesn't know it yet, as she is at the first day of softball practice. Here it is! She is doing dress A (blue) but probably not actually blue. We have a date on Saturday or Sunday to go to Hancock's to look at color choices. There are so many more color choices at Hancock's than our local Joann's Fabrics! I can't wait to see what she chooses!

And this is Amy's choice. She is going with the blue dress, but not in blue. Her favorite color is purple. And not just any color of purple, a deep royal purple. Can't wait to see what fabrics she chooses! Bonus is that all specialty/formal dress fabrics are 30% off through the month of March!

I am so excited that I have Spring Break coming up the week of the 15th through the 19th of March. The weekend before we have Beauty and the Beast. Monday, the 15th, Rick and I are taking rented costumes back to Salt Lake City, Utah. The rest of Spring Break, including the weekend of the 20th and 21st is mine to make dresses.

Tomorrow, I hope to share how Hannah was asked to the Prom.

Have a great day!

Donnelly

Prom Dresses!

Hannah, Amy and I went dress pattern shopping today. While Amy is delighted in her choice, Hannah is not. Joann's did have the pattern she loved in her size, so to surprise her I am going to go to Hancock Fabrics tomorrow to see if they have it. I sure hope so. As soon as I am able to get the pattern Hannah loves, I will post a picture of both patterns.

I also have some great news, but I have to ask if I can share it first.

Have a great day!
Donnelly

Prom dresses...as in plural!

I have to say that these two have me wrapped around their little fingers...Hannah and her best friend Amy.

Monday afternoon, I was bombarded with a huge request.

Both Hannah and Amy want me to make their prom dresses!

Hello, it is their Senior Prom and they are trusting me with their dresses!

Holy Cow!

Two Prom dresses before the 10th of April!

Smack dab in the middle of this is "Beauty and the Beast". The play will take 10 days out of the calendar.

Prom is on April 10th, so I will have about 34 days to come up with two dresses.

Here is a sample of what they are thinking:

I have a date with Hannah and Amy on Sunday to take measurements and go pattern shopping. Both Joann's and Hancock Fabrics have sales this weekend on patterns from various pattern makers. Once we get the patterns, then we will decide what colors, fabrics, trims, etc.

I am looking forward to this challenge!

Have a great day!

Donnelly