First things First– Do you really want to do this?  I mean really?

 But if your anything like me you probably won’t listen to me and maybe it’ll be easier for you plus your just tempted by all that sweet fluffy goodness, admit it, you so want one, even for yourself.

 I                                          of course I have to give credit to the two sites that helped me a ton

Even with them I am such a visual learner that I literally had to draw up what in the world they were explaining– Dave of course had quite the laugh at me session, as for half an hour I sat and talked to myself as I tried to figure it out and explain it out loud to myself and then draw diagram after diagram– but I got it, I figured it out- it’s all good now

What you’ll need: 
*Nylon Chiffon - (do not use Poly Chiffon because if frays) I could not find any stores around me that carried it so I ordered mine from AFC- express (I do not really know how many yards you’ll need cuz’ it varies so much with the length you want, size, how fluffly ect. I ordered 10 yards for the two skirts I made and ya shipping sucks!)
*Some fabric for your waistband– satin charmuese is what most people use
*Definitely a rotary cutter and mat– unless you’re really insane
 *Elastic, thread, a knowledge of how to do a gather stitch, and if your so lucky also a ruffler foot

So Step #1 is figure out the measurements

The waist length is usually 3″ to 6″ long (– I went with 3 1/2″ on Brynleys {who’s 4} and Ellies {newborn} is only 3″ long–) also you need to measure around their waist.(Bryn’s waist was 21″ Ellies 14″)

Than you have to whip out all your super amazing math skills— since the waistband will be folded in half you need to double the waist length (3+3) and add a 1/4″ seam allowance on each edge (3+3+1/4″ +1/4″= 6 1/2″)
For the width you take the size of your waist and times it by 2 (14″+14″= 28″)
Congrats you now have the waistband measurements–sweet!

For the Two Tiers you figure out how long you want the skirt to be (Bryn’s was 14 1/2″ and Ellies was 9″)
Than you subtract the waist length and divide it by 2 for the two tiers and add 1/2″ for both seam allowances on each side (9″-3″=6″ / 2 = 3″ +1/2″ = 3 1/2″ tier pieces)
Walah– you now have your tier measurements!

As for the Ruffle fluff just cut 2″ or 2 1/2″ strips– I like that one, no stinkin math to do.

Step #2  Cut, Cut, Cut, Cut

-You need your waistband
-Than cut your tiers your width measurement (Ellies was 3 1/2″) and the length will be the length of your fabric selvage to selvage.  You need 6 top tiers and 12 bottom tiers so a total of 18.
-Than Cut your Ruffle fluff 2″ to 2 1/2″ wide by the length of fabric selvage to selvage— (I cut about 130 for the two skirts I made)

Step #3– Assemble the Skirt

  A- Sew the Ruffle Fluff and the Tiers end to end to end also if your waistband fabric frays sew a small hem on it to prevent it from fraying.

 C- Sew your Ruffle Fluff on to your bottom tier and than sew a gather stitch on the bottom tier

First off, I’m sorry dear blog that I’ve been naughty and neglected you– I have a lot of good excuses though.. oh you don’t want to hear those– fine than I won’t tell you– I’ll just be better,ok— Ohhkaaaay?

but really, I’ve been avoiding you a little cuz’ well, I’m a little bashful– you see I made a table and wrote a post just being my silly self, than decided I’d tell Ana at knock off wood thank you for the plans and show her a pic– and than I linked to just a fun party at Remodelaholic – but than crazy things started happening

 I was featured here and on the bragging board– I was so flattered but also a little embarrassed and nervous, but everyone was so sweet and nice in their comments, no one had yet said that they hated me, and than new cute little pictures started popping up on my followers link- wow a lot of new pictures– “oh wow do you see all those pictures honey, What do you think they want me to say? I’m feeling a little queasy, I think I’m just going to go hide in our closet for awhile.”
But well I’ve missed you dear blog– I like to be silly and post stuff that we do, I usually get a much nicer reaction from comments than just a glance over the shoulder from the hubby saying “hmm ya that’s nice” so I’m just going to keep being myself and keep posting whatever pops in my head and hope that I don’t make all my little pictures/followers go away. cuz’ I like them and they all seem really nice and have left some really sweet comments that have made my day- (thank you so much) so anyways on to the post

also to add insult to injury– I had no idea that there were flowers planted by our trees when we bought the home but nevertheless they are thriving and beautiful– most likely cuz’ I didn’t touch them Thank you whomever planted the flowers– I so love looking at them and enjoying them.

I woke up the other night at 3 am and the scripture D&C 109:8 “Organize yourselves; prepare every needful thing, and establish a house, even a house of prayer, a house of fasting, a house of faith, a house of learning, a house of glory, a house of order, a house of God;” was running though my head- particularly the Organize yourselves, prepare every needful thing part.  So slowly that has been what we’ve been working on– Sad to say with all the many projects and other demands our house has become slightly disorganized and I am not nearly as prepared for this baby as I’ve been for our others, and our poor food storage has dwindled.


So over Easter weekend, we finally built some storage shelves for the basement, which I’m excited to start filling up more– it will most likely be a slow process.

I’ve also started getting more prepared for the baby– diapers, wipes, blankets, going through Bryn’s old clothes and getting everything clean and organized and hung up–

The sewing bug has hit strong too,so my sewing machine has gotten lots of love as I’ve sewed booties and bloomers and a dress and two of these suckers……

Here’s the one they choose,

Now it’s on to deep cleaning the house– I love spring cleaning but let’s hope it doesn’t put me in labor yet– I’m still a little nervous and not quite ready yet for our new baby– but I’m getting there

First off– I finished Brynley’s Dress— yay! and this year not the day before easter (oh ya- oh ya)– course thinking ahead to next year and the fact that I’ll have to make two easter dresses– hmmm I’m not sure how well I thought out this tradition– I never thought of the fact that I could have more than one girl.

Anyways I didn’t realize that I had picked out the same pattern of fabric that I picked last year till I got it home and started cutting– you can see last years dress here

I used pretty much the same pattern that I used last year I just modified it to fit my needs– Simplicity 5695

I used my friends pattern last year and was going to just try to do it this year without one– but seeing as this is only the third dress I’ve ever sewn, and I really didn’t want to push my “forgetful pregnancy mind” I figured I’d just go buy the same pattern– I was so smart though I forgot that the pattern doesn’t have all sizes 0-4 in it and they split it up so I bought the 0-2 pattern and didn’t realize it till it was all cut out— so I still had to use my preggo brain and resize it.

I also changed the sleeves a little bit– and made it so it had a pretty ruffled tie to wrap around it

I plan on making some fabric rose/flowers for a headband to go with it– probably later this week I’ll post a mini tut on doing that– and after easter I’ll take some pics of Bryn in it– She’s not allowed to wear it till Easter of course

Really I’m happy he got it– I like to make him happy and it makes me happy cuz’ now my camera is bumped up to number one on the to get next list.