Hi everyone,
It’s getting cool around here in Southern Illinois? How about where you are? Perfect weather for corduroy isn’t it? I just purchased some small print corduroy fabric pieces from Sissy, but forgot to take a picture of it… so I’ll have to show it another time. I got some real beauties and will have fun fashioning them into sweet dolly clothes!
The next order of business is my Morning Glories bush again. My hubby told me this morning the purple flowers had blossomed out and were very pretty… but by the time I got out there, they were somewhat closed up. They must be a different variety because they aren’t like the blue flowers. I would have to call the blue flowers MAGNIFICENT! Really, when you look at that bush from afar, it is just amazing and gorgeous. I read that sometimes in warmer climates the Morning Glories can actually act like Perennials and come up the next year instead of having to be planted again. However, most of the time they are Annuals and DO have to be replanted. You can bet I’m going to be hoping for a warm winter… :o)
If you click on any picture it will enlarge, so you can see it better.
Here are some shots from all 4 sides of the trellis. The bush is 7 feet tall…
I still can’t believe it blossomed out like this! We have NEVER seen more than maybe 20 Morning Glory blooms on the bush in all the years we’ve planted them on the trellis.
Next up is a wedding dress. The lady, Sherry, who gave me the patterns (next) said she had a wedding dress she was wanting to get rid of and asked if I might like it for the lace. I wasn’t sure, but I said I could see… so she brough it out in this box you could see into. I could see appliques on the front and thought, “hey, why not give it a try.” So I took it home…
I took a few pictures of it hanging up in my sitting room and you can see for yourself, there is lots of lace and even a hat!
It wasn’t satin, but a taffeta and was a very small size and pretty outdated. It may have been someone’s style, but I didn’t know ANYONE who would wear it, so I decided to just cut it up for the lace, possibly on slips or crinolines. (Don’t hate me for cutting it up, but it was taking up a lot of room…)
I cut the rows and rows of lace off the bottom of the dress, and then cut all around the appliques on the bodice… like this…
So it will be much easier to find a place for this lace, and one of these cold winter nights, I’ll take the stitched lace off the netting and roll it onto a spool… Don’t hate me for cutting it up… I did put the hat in my bag of things to take to the thrift shop…
Okay, so now to the patterns.. I think I counted 69. I had some of them already, but not as many as I thought there’d be. Here they are in a box… Some of them I’d never seen before.
Underneath the patterns were a few things cut out and pinned together and a few little trims.
Here they are all stacked up.
I grouped them sort of into categories. These were for Barbie and other 11 1/2″ dolls.
Here is a dog coat pattern, a craft project pattern and one for a little girl.
Here are a few patterns with grown up outfits, kids outfits and doll outfits all together.
These are a few baby doll clothes patterns.
The bulk of the patterns were American Girl doll patterns… so here they are…
I need to go through my patterns and see which ones I have duplicates of and look at them all a little better. I did see some I know I have…
Sorry, it’s taken me so long to show them. I had to put them up in the attic until I could find time to take pictures of them. Okay, I can check this off my list now!
I hope you wonderful weekend. I’ll be cleaning house most likely! :o)
See you Monday!
Blessings, Jeanne