What I have been up to part 2

Oh My girls would die to see what I am going to show you! (because it's thier Christmas!) Again these turned out SO much better than I ever thought I am quite proud of myself

This is for Taylor, I got all of the shirts in the post from either Modbod Seconds racks (they have TINY holes under the armpit on one sleeve and I got them for $5!!) or Lexi's I got on clearance at Wmart for $2.25 (love it!)

So back to this picture the pleated skirts are all modified from this pattern I just modified the pleats (she discribed them funny and I couldn't figure them out so I made up my own way of doing it.) I also stiched down the back fold of each pleat. This makes them stay in better and easier to iron. I also added a button hole on the waistband for the tie that is wrapping around the body to come through so that it doesn't have to just come over the top.

The shirt embelishment is from here (I love her blog)

This is Taylors second outfit, I made all of these skirts up! So sorry there is no tutorial I wanted them to look similar to the Downeast ones but with an elastic waist (because I needed easy) so they all have a yoke with a slightly pleated skirt and you can't see it but there is ribbon trim around the bottom.

The T-shirt embelishment is just a ruffle that has been folded over and then topped with more of the ribbon roses like the one on her other shirt, just smaller.

This is the first of Lexi's outfits, same skirt as above and the t-shirt embelishment is just ribbon that I stiched with a gathering stitch on my machine and then wrapped around to create a rose and sewed it on. Its kindof like the embelishment here

This is Lexi's pleated skirt, its SO cute she is just going to love it. I made it the same as Taylors

This is Lexi's other shirt, that matches the skirt that I made for her for school. The flower is from a tutorial found here 

This is Mara's Downeast knockoff skirt (I just love this stripped fabric)

This is Mara's shirt that matches her school skirt I got the embelishment from here

Finally this is Mara's pleated skirt and I just took ribbon that I had that matched all of the colors in her skirt and put it into groups of 3 ribbons and then stiched them together so that they where all sticking up and then stitched all of the bunches together and onto her shirt. I just love the way that it turned out!

My girls are going to be so excited on Christmas morning!