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Written by Kimberly Eddy
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Saturday, 26 June 2010 19:47 |
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This week's freebie is a short ebook about how to make a coulottes pattern out of a normal shorts pattern.
Coulottes I made for Esther this week.
This past week, we had a coulottes making workshop at our church. The reason being, as our girls go to camp, one of the rules at the Bill Rice Ranch, where they attend teen camp each year, is for the young ladies to wear coulottes or shorts that are loose fitting in the legs and come down to the knee during sporting events, horseback riding, and so forth. The main problem with that rule is the lack of availablity of shorts that match this description which don't have advertising labels all over them (another rule for both boys and girls). Most such shorts have Nike or something else adoring them. But, they are easy enough to sew if you have a machine, though there are rarely any patterns available either.
Here's the coulottes I sewed for Esther that night. She picked out this fabric from some we found on sale at Jo Anns. It's a somewhat stretchy lightweight fabric, which felt almost like t-shirt material, and which allowed me to sew a lettuce leaf ruffle on the bottom. you do this by stretching your fabric as you sew a rolled hem along the bottom -- it ruffles up nicely on it's own, and has a cute finished edge. Well, these shorts actually weren't perfectly finished as the material slipped a few times while I was doing it (probably because I was showing someone else how to do it...you know how things seem to not easily or perfectly work when you are trying to show someone how to do something you've done a thousand times before?). They lay really nice, look cute, and you can ride a bike, a horse, or play volleyball in them.
Are you looking for the kind of coulottes with pleats and a little more fullness? These aren't for the sort of coulottes which have pleats and are super full (as they are not conducive to playing softball in), but rather the kind that meet the standards of most Christian campgrounds. I did find another free pattern online for making the kind with pleats in them, if you are interested. You can find those instructions here. I've made her coulottes pattern several times for myself, and her instructions are super-easy once you get the hang of it. I suggest making a pair first out of cheap material, so you can see how they fit on you, and adjust as needed. I made a pair per her instructions with lightweight denim, and I love them.
I made this ebooklet to help out some friends in making these, and I thought I'd share it with you too.
To download my pattern/instructions, click here.
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Last Updated on Saturday, 26 June 2010 20:40 |
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Written by Kimberly Eddy
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Thursday, 03 June 2010 00:00 |
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Coming up here really soon, I'll be judging a local art contest, and as such,
I get to have one piece of my artwork hanging up(Find out more about this contest here!. The kids are bummed out, because I told them that if I'm a judge this is one art show they can't enter. Here I think a couple of them thought they were shoe-in's for sure!
The idea of finding something to hang up was a little strange
for me because most of my art nowadays is digital or nature sketching, not
"gallery stuff". ;) But I do still have a passion for photography, and I took
(and manipulated) the following photos just for my own personal home decor, which the family all loves very much. My kids also love taking photos and using PhotoShop too.
This particular series of photos really started when wee little Esther came to me holding a chamomile flower in her
hand, and I took a photo of it. Originally I was thinking...okay, I'll just edit the dirty fingers of my garden worker out of the photo of the otherwise pristine chamomile. I feel like most of the photos of my kids are taken when they are dirty in some way...mud on faces, dirty shirt on, etc. But somehow the dirty fingers really add to the picture, and after photoshopping you really can't tell too much. I loved the shot so much, that it became part
of the button banner for this site (grab one off the side there----->)
Then Ruth came to me with a rose in her hands, and I took a photo of that.
The only problem is, a few people pointed out that this looks like the photo
on the cover of some book that seems to be popular right now but which I didn't
read because I'm not into vampires.
I did it in antique shading too.
There's also a photo of my clematis with a monochromatic background.
and some weed that Isobel found, which is actually rather pretty, with dirty fingers as the background again.
Of course violas are also nice too, aren't they?
Which do you like best? Leave a comment below and let me know, please!
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 02 June 2010 22:44 |
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Written by Kimberly Eddy
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Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:26 |
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Too nice outside to be indoors...how about you?
Just dropping in briefly from another productive day (this time catching up on Laundry),
to let you know about the publication of two of my articles.
The first is at At
the Well, titled "A Heart To Serve". This article looks
at the ways we can help our children grow up with a heart to serve.
The other article is at Boundless.org. Boundless is the web-zine for singles
published by Focus on the Family. This article is entitled "Asking
Why" and
is about those times when we wonder why God is allowing certain things to go
on in our lives and the lives of others.
I'd love to know what you think about either of these articles!
My cat, Ginger, was spotted up in the wisteria archway, looking down at me this morning.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:41 |
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Written by Kimberly Eddy
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Monday, 03 May 2010 12:31 |
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Just wanted to give you a heads up: There's a super giveaway at MonthlyDrawingLessons.com
to win the new DVD plus ebook, Super Simple Nature Sketching for Early Spring.
The giveaway ends on Wednesday.
Click here for more information
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Written by Kimberly Eddy
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Friday, 16 April 2010 12:41 |
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I have a new article over at Focus on the Family's Boundless.org Webzine for Singles. The article is called Expanding Boundaries, and you can read it here. Let me know what you think by leaving a comment here.
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