Hmm, well here I am.

I'm excited to show you my finishes this week! This lovely young lady from my church asked me to make her a homecoming dress. We found a pattern on Burda and it was a great fit :) I decided to make a trial dress, just in case.  I used up the rest of this black and white fabric I had.  I did have to do a section of plain black on the back.  And here is the final product in the colors and fabrics she requested!  I found an invisible zipper foot in with one of my more recently acquired sewing machines and put it to work for this one.  There is also boning which was a new skill for me.  I actually pulled it out of my first prom dress to use :) She looks lovely!!  I also finished up a quilting finish. A friend and classmate asked me to do the quilting on this one for her.  It is so cute and it just begged to have flowers quilted in, so I got brave.  I've only free-motion quilted one other quilt. I'm glad I went with that for this one.  Normally I have to