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Location: Body is in DE, but heart is in the Midwest where Diet Coke is called "pop"
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Shirring is so fun SnS *added modeling picture*
Crystal and I were IMing this evening about shirring which got me in the mood to try it. Miss A and I had been to JAs earlier in the day to get some elastic thread.
I cut the fabric 24" long by the width of the fabric. The top is finished with a 1/4" double hem and I stitched 12 rows of shirring using the edge of my pressure foot as a guide. Then I serged up the back and hemmed it using a 1" double hem. The straps are elastisized and just pinned on until Miss A can try it on tomorrow morning. The bow is also just pinned on -- not sure if I like it. I might add a row of the same ribbon around the bottom.
This is the prettiest and easiest sewing project I have ever done -- I am in with shirring! Instant gratification! I am seeing GOBS of these in Abigail's wardrobe for the next few years. I think I will make summer nightgowns for my nieces with the same technique.
Thanks for looking and I am off to bed as a satisfied sewing mama.
Erin
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Erin
~ Happily married to Michael (5/18/96)
~ "Just" a SAHM to Abigail (4/22/04)
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Location: Body is in DE, but heart is in the Midwest where Diet Coke is called "pop"
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I was scared to try shirring but it was amazingly easy. At first I didn't think it would work, but the more rows you sew, the stretchier it gets. I made this dress from cutting out to hemming in 1 1/2 hours.
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Shecki
mom of Zachary, Annaliese, Josiah, Samuel, Brianna, Eli, and Furby
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(not pictured are my two school boys)
great job Erin!!!!! Did you have to steam yours? I had to steam mine to get it to scrunch all up more. I need to add straps to Hannah's and then it's all done.
I am seeing GOBS of these in Abigail's wardrobe for the next few years.
I'm so used to internet acronyms that when I read GOBS, I first wondered if there was a new acronym that I didn't know! ROFL! I realized that it was actually the word, as in gobs=a lot.
LOL!
Cute dress too!
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Mount Washington in New Hampshire (summer vacation), and my kitty, up in a tree.
with shirring! Instant gratification! 
I am seeing GOBS of these in Abigail's wardrobe for the next few years. I think I will make summer nightgowns for my nieces with the same technique.
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