Kenzie's Party Dress Blog Tour

BLOG TOUR DATES:

2/14 The 3 Little Kiwi's

2/15 Calm & Carrion

2/16 Confessions of a Barefoot Housewife

2/17 PiePie Designs

2/18 bebelambs

2/19 Crafty Biggers

2/20 The Berry Bunch

2/21 Sunflower Circle

Kenzie's Party Dress

I was so excited when Kymy asked for participants to be part of the Kenzie's Party Dress Pattern Tour. I Love Kymy's patterns and had been hoarding this one in my Craftsy cart. The sky is the limit with the options on this dress! 

It is available in two size groups NB-4t and 5-18.  

There is also an 18" doll dress add-on available

Or you can purchase it all in one bundle at an awesome discount.

It can be made as the "Signature style" with all the flounces

Or as a simple dress, which makes a perfect fancy party dress.

It has cap sleeves or the sleeveless option.

Kymy's challenge was to think spring, I made the dress for my youngest daughter in her signature color.  I have a large family so each child gets their own color and Kinley's is purple. I love this pattern and all the options it comes with. You can pick it up at Everything Your Mama Made & More!

 For my dress, I chose the simple dress with the cap sleeves.  

I loved how easy this pattern was to follow!  Kymy makes great easy-to-follow patterns with great pictures.  (The pictures are my favorite part, since I actually don't like to read the patterns.)  I chose a nice spring chevron for the bodice and this great Peacock fabric for the skirt.

As soon as Kinley saw the dress, she said "Oh Mom, so pretty dress; is that for me?" She loves girly dresses. 

Kinley is small for her age and could probably wear the 2 but I wanted to make a 3 so we could make it last a little longer.  I believe the dress ran really true to size. 

I love the scoop back detail in the back and the nice full bow.  

Another thing I love about this pattern are the French seams and the top stitching; it makes for such a nice quality dress.  From cutting the pattern to finish, this dress took me about 2 hours.  I see many of Kenzie's Party Dresses in Kinley's future. Thanks so much Kymy for letting me be a part of this tour and for making such a great and easy to follow pattern. 

Want to get your own copy of Kenzie’s Party Dress & Skirt?  Now until 2/24 use the code “kpdblogtour” on a Kenzie’s Party Dress order of $8.95 or more from www.eymm.com & get $1.95 off.  This makes individual patterns just $7 & the bundle with both size ranges AND the bonus doll add on just $12.47.  Limit 1 coupon per person.

Make sure you check out the next stop on the tour tomorrow  at Crafty Biggers

Welcome Shalom

I am so excited to introduce the newest member of my bebelambs family!!! Meet Shalom.

I name most of my machines both household and craft wise! Shalom is a beautiful Brother PR-660  6 needle embroidery machine. (Isn't she magnificent) Usually, I can look at the machine one time and I know the name. With Shalom it was different.  I actually thought I would name her Isabella because to me, she is beautiful. But, as I started working with her, she just wasn't an Isabella, I pictured Isabella as somewhat dainty. My mom kept suggesting Shalom but I wanted something with an a or e at the end. The more I worked with her the more I realized she was very sturdy and maybe she need a German name, like Liesel.  But, nothing was sticking. The more I thought about it the more My mom's suggestion kept coming back to me. Shalom.

Most people think of the word Shalom and just think of peace but it's more. Shalom: Hebrew word meaning peace, completeness, prosperity, and welfare.

Hebrew words convey feeling, emotion and intent. Shalom means not just peace but complete peace, contentment, harmony, wholeness and well being. 

I am hoping for lots of peace and harmony and also prosperity with Shalom!  She will make my projects quicker and more peaceful as when I have to turn my attention to a little she won't eat my one piece body suits. Yeah, not allowed to use the term "ones.." anymore, Thank you Gerber! 

My first 4 projects stitched out beautifully…..until I flipped them to do the backside. Then, 4 times..in a row, I stitched the back to the front. I told my dad the machine was flawless, the user was an idiot!  It just takes me a few times to catch on but I finally got it. 

So, welcome Shalom….oh the places we shall go! Well, we won't actually be going but our bebelambs creations will be!!!