Dutch Oven Carrying/Protective Case

I've been thinking for a while that I ought to make some sort of carrying/protective case for our Dutch ovens.  I have several pairs of old jeans down the basement and thought those would be the perfect fabric.

At first I thought I'd do a drawstring in the top, then I realized an old belt, tacked down, would be even better!

Maybe I can come up with a tutorial as I have to make another carrier for our 2nd Dutch oven.

Re-fitted Family Reunion T-Shirt

I took this large family reunion t-shirt and cut and sewed it down to fit!  I still want to adjust the sleeves a little, but I'm so glad it (mostly) worked!  Now I can do it to some other very large t-shirts!

A Girl Like Alice

After watching the new Alice movie recently, I was looking at one of my blue little Pioneer dresses.  I thought, that is the perfect little Alice dress! I just went with the Disney cartoon costume, though.

Here's the transformation:

Hemming Pants

Image from http://crafterhours.blogspot.com/

This is the awesomest thing ever!

http://crafterhours.blogspot.com/2010/08/scary-sewing.html

Only my pants are some Gap ones; that's expensive enough for me!

Dress Alteration

I bought this dress at Sears about 4 years ago.  It had a belt around the waist and little belt/buckle things on the rolled sleeves.  The sleeve things reminded me waaaay too much of the horrid '80s, but I still wore the dress that way for a couple years.

As I have gotten more confident in my sewing, and some of the dress seams needed some repairs, I thought I'd cut off the sleeve belt things, shorten the rolled sleeves, and convert the waist belt to ruffles on my sleeves.  It's a little hard to see details in the picture, but I definitely like the whole thing better.

Fabric for Sale!

http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=218&ad=11259499&cat=74

Gored Skirt

I've wanted to make a gored skirt for a while now.  Cotton skirts were out of fashion while I was growing up, it was all rayon and other smooth, slippery fabrics.  I've seen many, many cute cotton skirts around the last several years and have wanted one. I have so much fabric, I thought I'd try making one.  I didn't want to go buy a pattern, so I found this sew-along.

http://sewingmamas.com/b/downloads.php?do=file&id=96

I think I'll go back and read this more:  http://vintagesewing.info/1940s/42-mpd/mpd-08.html

These were also helpful: 
http://wkdesigner.wordpress.com/2007/09/29/gored-skirt/

http://patternsthatfityou.com/frskirtcl.htm

I mostly like how it turned out.  I had to take it in a bit (made some pleats), and I think I'll do a regular waist band next time.