Creating through Loss

For those few of you who are waiting to see my Lover's Knot quilt finished it is being quilted!!  Yea!!

Last week I had the opportunity to visit with some extended family when I went to stay with my aunt while my Mom was down for her cousins funeral.  It is always a sad thing to go to a funeral and at the same time happy.  You mourn the loss of a loved one and reaquaint yourselves with family you haven't seen for a while.  I loved seeing my Mom, Aunts and Uncles and of course my cousins and my nephew who came so that my Mom who doesn't like to travel alone could come.  Sunday night we had a family dinner at my Aunt Midge's house.  Uncle Bob barbequed hamburgers (beef and elk) and hotdogs.  My Uncle Clair, my Mom and my nephew Nathan, and my cousin Dayna and her family were there.  We had a great time talking and eating and just enjoying each others company.  I being (what I like to call myself) a seamstress, couldn't help but notice the cute skirt that Dayna's daughter Jessica was wearing.  Dayna told me they had bought it at a garage sale for $2!  It was a cute little skirt that was made from jeans on the top and had a gauzy fabric on the bottom.  Very cute so I decide that I need to make my own version of this cute skirt and here you have it!  I took an old pair of Kimmy's jeans and my new quilting fabric and made her a new skirt!  Not a very good picture but you can get the just of it.  Jean top and classic pillow case dress for the bottom.  What a good way to use those scraps of fabric laying around!  I can't wait to play around and do the next one!  Let's see...maybe we will go the other direction with the strips!  A little more rufflly!!!

Inspiration

I went to the best movie tonight with my friend Katherina. We went a saw Julie/Julia. It was really inspiring. What does a seamstress do when she is inspired? She sews of course!! I have been working for other people making some wonderful things but tonight I did something for myself. This is just a sample of the Lover's Knot quilt that I have been making. I finally got far enough along to show you what I love to do! I have 5 blocks done to this point with only 13 more to go!! then I can put together the rest of the quilt!! I can't wait to show you the finished product!! Stay tuned for more later!!

What else I do!

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Our county held it's final horse show for this year yesterday. It was a good show and the kids had fun!
McLane and Sugar Cat and Kimmy and Rainy doing Barrels!!

This is my other love and what I do when I'm not sewing!

A day in the life of a seamstress

A day in the life of a seamstress. How do you do just one day? This last week I finshed two dresses and two shirts and went to two Rodeo Queen Contests to watch the girls that were wearing my dresses. Two of them won and the other one did not. I also made a pair of chaps. put sequins on some vests, taught 4-H, practiced with the Dinosaur Roundup Rodeo Riders, spent time with my husband and kids. Wow! Life never slows down! It is now July 1st and I started this post on June 5th! Let me share with you my Monday! I woke up around 5 and started working I finished putting sequins on the 24 saddle pad covers that I had made for the Dinosaur roundup Rodeo Riders(I had already finished the 26 vests!) Took Kimmy to quilting class(no I don't teach her myself!) Then I finished a zipper in a skirt, made a shirt for the 4th of July with fringe and sequins, altered two more shirts which ment putting a zipper in one shirt so it wouldn't pop open while the young lady was riding her horse and taking in the sides of the other one. All this was done before 5 p.m. when I left to go practice with the riders again! When I have more time to post I'll give a more detailed accounting of what I do all day!

Hi Everyone My name is Donette!

I am married to a wonderful man named Martin! We have 5 children of our own, Amanda, Levi, Melissa, Ian, Marty, and we are raising our granddaughter Kimberly. We also claim 1 more person as our own, his name is Anthony!

I have a small home based business called DB Creations thus the name of this blog spot!

I make custom Western Show Clothing, and I love it! I love seeing the faces of the girls that I make clothing for when they see them for the first time! Most of my customers are my 4-H kids. I have been a 4-H leader for 13 years and I'm sure I will still be doing it at least for another 10 years!

I love sewing and creating new and exciting new patterns and clothing!

I probably won't say anything profound or world changing on this blog, but I hope to be able to share with you what I do and why. This will be it for my first post. Hopefully the next one will be better!