That's what she always says when she's about to show off a new look, and this is a very new look for her: first the haircut, which is the result of her self-trimming. Her efforts were just subtle enough that you couldn't really tell quite what was wrong, and just obvious enough that her hair looked like a bird's nest. Off to the Supercuts for a bob, which she loves.
The New Molly is wearing jeans. Jeans! Trousers! It's a miracle! Peer pressure got to her finally: she came home one day and said "Vanessa says I always wear dresses". "Well, you do," I said. She seemed to think it wasn't a simple observation though, and now she wears pants once in a while. Unfortunately since I forced myself to stop buying pants for little girls who weren't ever going to wear them, all but two pairs are way too short for little Miss Longlegs here. I never thought I'd be making a mental note to buy more pants.
She is wearing this pair of jeans with my project from yesterday. I have hit a knitting wall, hard, and had to take advantage of a sudden urge to sew something. The result: a sweater that I shrunk in the wash a while back has been altered to become a tunic, with little sparkly crochet ruffles at the wrists, and a few vintage buttons scattered around.
No pattern was needed for this, just some measuring: I simply chopped the sleeves off to the right length, and then trimmed the sleeves a touch to make them narrower. I cut the body of the sweater into a slight a-line, turned it inside out, pinned it, and serged the raw edges. That part took about fifteen minutes. There was a tiny bit of puckering because of the stretchiness of the fabric and of how I was too excited to take the time to make the puckering not happen. Lesson learned.
I punched through the raw edge of the sleeves with a small crochet hook to make a row of single crochet with a fancy luxury yarn from my stash that had a touch of red in it, then switched to a bigger hook and made three double crochet stitches in each single crochet to create the ruffles. I dug out a few buttons that picked up the colors in the yarn, and handsewed them onto the tunic using pink Sulky Holoshimmer thread, a cool detail that mirrors the pinkish glitter in the yarn.
Tim Gunn would say it's a little bit happy-hands-at-home, which is pretty much right on the mark: I made it happily, at home, by hand.
Again, you are killing me with your sewing/knitting talent. That is adorable. Just adorable. And the haircut looks like it was made for her. I have got to start sewing more than just Halloween costumes.
Posted by: Michelle | January 29, 2008 at 10:16 PM
Awesome hair! Awesome top! Awesome jeans. I am so proud of Molly and you for making her such a little cutie. Tell her Grammy can't wait to see more pictures of the New Molly!!!
Posted by: Grammy | January 30, 2008 at 03:48 PM
She looks JUST. LIKE. YOU in the pic above left. Wow!
Posted by: Alisyn | January 31, 2008 at 11:51 AM