Whirlwind In A Mama's Head

The end result I had some leftover fabric from the skirt I made for Miss Kiki, so I decided to try making a fabric rose.  The skirt The  skirt was cutout from an oversized shirt, and this fabric was cut from the sleeve hem so it's already finished at the ends and folded nicely for what I need it for. If you have just a piece of fabric, you want to cut a long and slim rectangle, fold the wrong sides together along the length in half and press. My inspiration was from the Cluck Cluck Sew Blog.  Allison there has a nice tutorial with detailed pictures. Have fun! The material Gathering process Rolling the Rose Sewing the bottom The only thing I did different was at the last step, I folded my rose out so it became fatter. My fabric was a knitted one so it worked really well.

On Friday I promised you a tutorial for the fabric flower that I made for Miss Kiki's Birthday outfit. It's actually quite simple. I followed a tutorial by Jen Renee , using her instruction for fabric flower No. 2. This is how I did mine: Cut fabric into circle shapes. I cut it close to the size that I want my flower to be. I used pink and blue tulle with glitters, 8 circles each. I take a pair of circles, one pink and one blue, and fold them in half with blue on the inside. I fold them again one more time to a quarter circle shape. I sew the bottom (the centre of the circle) together so they don't unfold Repeat steps 2 and 3, alternating the colour order. This means the second one I did had the blue on the outside and pink on the inside. Sew the first and second one together and keep adding until you get the desired fullness. I used 8 of each colour in my flower. This is what it looks like at this point. I separated the blue and pink fabric that was folder...

Miss Kiki is turning 4. I can't believe how fast it has been! She is one of the smallest kid in the class, even though she is one of the older ones. Oh well, maybe she will have a growth spurt one day. Just the girls Today we had a lot of fun celebrating her birthday at school. I was there to tell the story of her life, and she held a globe and went around round yellow table cloth that represented the sun 4 times. We sang happy birthday and blew the candle and cut the fancy cake that she designed herself! Her birthday outfit was one of the tutus that I made for her using this tutorial  but slightly modified, with a tank top she had embellished with a matching flower. I'll post the tutorial soon. Today, I would like to show you how I did her tutu skirt. I basically followed the instruction on how to make a fixed size tutu skirt  but instead of tying the tulle into knots around the elastic, this is what I did: take a tulle strip fold the lengt...

Let's just ignore the fact that the previous post was more than 8 months ago (!!!) and continue with what I should have finished then. The picking up of the passport was rather uneventful, except for the part that my friend got kicked out of the immigration office :P The day I was supposed to pick up my passport I called up my Lao friend (who lives in Jakarta) if she wanted to come with me to pick up my passport. I warned her that it would be a boring trip with heavy traffic and long waits at the immigration office, but I'd love company. Without hesitation she said yes (what a good friend!) and off we went to Mampang with Kiki on the back seat. So it happens that that day she was wearing a sack dress above her knees. We parked in the basement and took the elevator out. As soon as we got out of the elevator on the 2nd floor, the security guard stopped her and told her that she wasn't allowed inside because her dress was too short. Seriously! It wasn't even higher...