Wanted: Toptoberfest Guest Bloggers and Contributors

Day One: Pleated Dress Shirt

Some of you will remember that last year in October I ran a series on this blog that I called Toptoberfest.  It was a week of tutorials based on tops and tees.  It was nice to challenge myself to come up with some new styles and projects.

 Day Two: Night Owl Expedition Shirt

I'm hoping to run the series again, I am just going to need a bit of help this time.  With my baby due at the end of this month I'd originally thought that hosting the series was out of the question, but then I thought that maybe some of my wonderful readers would like to help me out. 

Day Three: Bands and Buttons

Contributors could share tops made from ready made patterns, self drafted patterns, refashioned tops, embellished tops, or even appliqued tops.

I'd also love to have a variety of projects.  I know that I'll have at least a couple of boy themed projects, but if any of you are interested in contributing tops for girls, or even older kids.  

Day Four: Cowl Neck Tee

If you would like to participate, but don't want to be a guest blogger, I'm hoping to host another link party to showcase all of the great tops that you've been making.

Toptoberfest Day Five: Robot Applique

I don't have any firm dates set, but I'm thinking of having the series start mid October.  If you are interested in participating, please shoot me an email and let me know what type of a project you think you'd like to contribute.

Hope to hear from some of you soon.  If you have any special requests for projects that you'd like to see please let me know.

Hip for The Holidays: Day Two with Guest Blogger Terra from Mama Says Sew

It's day two of Hip for the Holidays, and I am so excited to introduce you to Terra from Mama Says Sew.  She has some mad sewing skills and is always coming up with fantastic projects. Today she is going to show us how to go beyond the onesies, and dress our our little ladies up with this fantastic holiday dress.  I am in love with the black and white with red accents-great color choice for the holidays.

Hi, I'm Terra from mama says sew.  I am so excited to be guest posting here today! I love reading Tricia's blog. Aren't these baby booties amazing?  And she's got some great Quiet Book Pages. Her blog was actually the one that inspired me to start my own blog.  I usually blog about things I sew for my kids, especially my girls (my son gets the short end of the stick when it comes to me making things), but a few other things I make get thrown into the mix as well. Stop by sometime and see!

This is me with the super short haircut that I love, and my husband...well, he loves me, anyway.

For Hip for the Holidays, I'm going to show you a holiday dress I made for my baby.  I used Simplicity pattern 5695, but instead of making it out of one piece of fabric, I used several in different prints of black and white.

I also changed the way of doing the sleeves slightly. Instead of using elastic at the bottom, I added a cuff and button.  You can find a tutorial for doing this at this post on my blog.  The only difference is that I had to make the cuff rather than use an existing cuff.

Here is the whole dress.  I like the way the black and white looks with a few splashes of red from the buttons and the flower headband.

You may think she likes the look too, but really, she's just helping Mommy out by giving Daddy a hint that a serger would be a really nice Christmas present.

She's wearing one of these flowers.  The tutorial is here.

And that's my holiday dress for a baby girl.  Thanks for letting me guest post today!

Thanks Terra.  I think that we are all inspired.  I love the cuffs on the sleeves, a very nice touch. Be sure to stop by her blog and show her some love.  She is quite talented, just check out these fantastic projects (here, here, or here).  I hope that Santa leaves a serger under your tree, and drops one by my house while he's at it.

Link up your holiday apparel projects at our Hip for the Holidays link party.