Where Have I Been???

I know at least a few of you have been wondering where I have been the last couple of months. I really didn't drop off the face of the earth. I just had some stuff I had to deal with. Life has been kind of out of control since the first of November and I admit I am still very stressed and battling some depression but I do see the light at the end of tunnel.

I will be back to making tutorials soon so don't worry. I have some things planned I just haven't had it in me to do them.

Last week however my friend Craig (the very talented designer behind the label Sharp Dressed Dolls) had a dress pattern to be tested. For those that don't know I am one of the lucky people to be on his pattern testing team. I had been putting off sewing for a while, not sure why because it is one of the things that makes me very happy. But anyway I bit the bullet and got out my sewing stuff and created the green dress in these photos. As normal sewing had a miraculous effect on me. I started to feel so much better emotionally and better able to deal with the stuff that is going on.

I love this dress and really do recommend that you pick up the pattern. You can find it here, it is really a fun sew. And the thing that I really like about this particular pattern was how everyone on the testing team came up with very different dresses from the same pattern.

As soon as I got the Marlene dress finished I decided to tackle the Sew Along project for my doll sewing group. The theme this month was shopping. We had 3 choices with the theme:

1. a cute outfit for shopping at the mall
2. shopping for clothes- winter clothes/ shopping bags, boxes for the clothes to go into
3. Spa visit (robe/wrap towel, facial mask, etc

I decided to create a fun outfit for Molly to wear to the mall. I made the shirt from Simplicity 5733, a tank top and leggings from Liberty Jane (Pixie Faire) patterns. She is also wearing a pair of boots from my stash I think I picked them up at the craft store and she is carrying a purse that I made a long time ago and I have no idea what pattern I used.

Thanks for reading the blog and I do promise I will be back with some tutorials soon. I am also hoping to get back to posting some more Allison's Journal posts too.