Toddler Renaissance Costume

After finishing a little outfit for lady genevieve for our trip to the Renaissance Festival, I decided she needed a hat to top off her costume.  After a little google image research, I decided to make a simple muffin cap.

This Muffin Cap Pattern worked quite well for me, as I simply adjusted for a toddler size head.  I found a great cream flower embellishment in the ribbon section of the craft store, and beautiful white feather.  I sewed the hat & embellishment with a sewing machine, and attached the feather by hand.  I added a band of elastic inside the hat brim for a snug fit.

I wish I could share a pattern for the dress, however I simply made it up as I went.  It is made out of a bunch of rectangle pieces of fabric, sewn together. Even the straps are separate and attached at the end.  I did not have much luck with grommets on my costume, so I used a rope-like embellishment and sewed loops on the inner- upper dress, to be able to lace the dress in the front.

We happened to get a perfect Carters Onsie shirt handed down to us, and just had to make a ruffled skirt.  I used this Elastic waist skirt tutorial to create a skirt.  I added a wider ruffle to the bottom of skirt to add length and make it show beneath the outer dress, and sewed a sash onto the front of the skirt (that ties in the back) to hide elastic waste band.

The beautiful thing about this costume is that it was made out of the left over scraps from the costume I made for myself 4 years ago.  So we now have matching costumes!  She was quite a hit at the festival!

In the Midst... of many projects

It's been a bit since my last post, and the reason is that I am busy working on a number of projects.  All of them are on the brink of completion, so there will be a handful of posts coming very soon.

Double Dutch Barn Doors for our laundry closet.  Building, sanding, staining, polyurethane-ing.  The hardware is ordered.  Had a little sanding mishap between poly coats, and had to sand down to raw wood and start over.  The other 3 doors are done.  Waiting for 2nd coat stain to dry, and then application of 2 coats of polyurethane.  Then when the Laird and I have time to hang them, we'll be posting!

Crown Moulding in for kitchen.  Waiting for 2nd coat of paint to dry.  This will be one of the final projects for the kitchen, for a while.

Sliding Barn Door for lady genevieve's bedroom.  Found some aluminum track and trolley rollers online.  2nd coat of Rustoleum Oil Rubbed Bronze spray paint is drying.  When we have some time, we'll work on hanging the track and door.  

The making of our littlest lady.  Tomorrow is lady genevieve's first trip to the Sterling Renaissance Festival.  We started a costume for her many months ago, that I was making up a

s I went.  When I tried it on her for size, it seemed like it was going to be too small.  Discouraged I put that project away, until this past week knowing that we'd be going to the festival.  The Laird and I both have costumes, so it would have been sad to not have something fun for lady genevieve to wear.  I started working on it again.   My sister graciously hands down all of my niece's clothes to genevieve- we are so lucky.  There happened to be just the perfect shirt to go under the dress.  I found a simple tutorial to make a ruffled skirt and a simple muffin cap- and now we have a real little lady on our hands!  So excited about how it turned out.  

Keeping very busy, but chipping away at the project list.  Enjoying every minute of it, and getting closer to wrapping up a few big projects.