Anagrassia Lace Leotards & Tulle Flower Girl Dresses

lace bodysuit flower girl dress

Best Selling Flower Girl Dresses Pub­lished May 19, 2014 Mary Grace God­frey is the design­er and seam­stress behind the Ana­gras­sia label. Ana­gras­sia launched in 2013 with the trend­set­ting adult bridal sep­a­rates and “Flower Girl” dress­es, which were lace (lined) body­suits with tulle skirts. Since then, the brand has expand­ed its spe­cial occa­sion out­fits and cus­tom orders to include bap­tismal, Com­mu­nion, Bat Mitz­vah, and Quinceañera gowns and dress­es. Recent­ly, Mary Grace has focused her atten­tion...

Yellow Baby Crib Bumpers

yellow crib pads

Pub­lished 06/01/2014 Phew! Just in time! After 8 hours of cut­ting, pin­ning, bast­ing, and sewing, I fin­ished the baby bumpers just before the birth of my first niece/nephew! (My sis­ter is keep­ing the gen­der and name a sur­prise. Hence the yel­low and gray baby room col­ors!) My sis­ter searched for crib bumpers online and in stores, but the bumpers she found and liked were around $200. So (of course), she...

Blue Bridesmaid Dress

Blue Bridesmaid Dress with bow

A cou­ple weeks ago, a lady asked me to (lit­er­al­ly) whip up a brides­maid dress for her! Pub­lished on Novem­ber 27, 2013 Blue Bridesmaid Dress with Bow and Sleeves On Sun­day, she approached me and asked if I could make her a blue brides­maid dress before her wed­ding on Sat­ur­day. Her orig­i­nal dress no longer fit her and the style/quality did­n’t suit the occasion. I told her if she bought the fab­ric and pat­tern before...

Retro Dress

Floral strapless beige bolero easter dress marusya

Buy Dress Pat­tern here Spaghet­ti Strap Par­ty Dress East­er Dress 2014: Mad Men, Retro & Babcha Inspired Pub­lished 03/16/2014  A Few Notes About the Video Before I begin shar­ing my project, I want say thank you to my old friend from Notre Dame friend, Pat McKillen. He gave me per­mis­sion to use his song Found for my video. Even though it’s one of his old­er songs, it’s still one of my favorites as...

Independence Day Shirt

Skill Lev­el: Easy Sup­plies: 1 yard red striped knit fab­ric, 1 yard of blue knit fabric Serg­er Scis­sors Card­board paper Sil­ver paint and paintbrush Male Body block pattern Step 1: Mak­ing the Sil­ver Stars -Lay­out the blue knit fab­ric over newspaper -Cre­ate a star sten­cil out of cardboard -Paint sil­ver stars on the blue fab­ric using the stencil  Step  2: Use a men’s knit body (bodice) block pat­tern and trace (using an...

Sewing Pillows with Cording

how to sew pillows

Pub­lished 1/13/2014 Recent­ly,  I fin­ished these col­or­ful dec­o­ra­tive pil­lows for a friend. The fab­rics I used were an embroi­dered polyester/cotton for the body and brown vel­veteen fab­ric for the out­er piping. Once I began cut­ting and sewing, I  was on a roll and thought I’d start and fin­ish the pil­lows in one night (maybe 2). But after fin­ish­ing one the pil­low cov­ers the first night & stuff­ing them with the...