Black Friday Sale: Enjoy and Thank You!

Our family had a wonderful Thanksgiving time with family. We hope you (US friends) did also.
Thank you everyone for shopping our "Black Friday" Sale. I hope you all enjoy the patterns as much as we do.
In fact, we have a fluffy petticoat, like the very popular boutique ones, planned for Curly's Christmas skirt to wear to Grandma's house. We'll be using the Three-Tiered Skirt e-Pattern.
As always, please send comments and post photos of your creations in the Flickr group. Each of us are always looking for inspiration from other mamas and grandmas!
Keep watching....we have many patterns in process. I'm not sure if they'll make it up before Christmas or not. This writing mama has a huge amount of sewing to do.... lol. I'll keep watching for great tutes to share with you while you wait for more patterns.
Happy Sewing!

Black Friday Now!!!!: Free Patterns and 50% off

Since I won't be at the computer Thursday or Friday, our Black Friday special starts now!

Our two most versatile and loved patterns, the Three-Tiered Skirt and the Pretty Peasant Dress/Shirt are FREE! Just click add to cart, for the pattern, go through the checkout process, and you'll receive your free download link.

All other patterns are 50% off with the code Christmas .

These specials will end Saturday 9:00 am ET.

Tell your friends!!! It's a great way to try us out, without any expense.

And, if anyone from the AR group is reading this, would you post it on Friday for me for GS, HB day.

As always we love to help you with our patterns if you want it, and we LOVE to see your creations in the SquigglyTwigs in Action flickr group.

Have a wonderful time with your families!

Happy Sewing,

Debbie

Happy Thanksgiving: Great tute to remember our history!

A tute for a skirt refashion and a gathered pocket just came in my Craft Gossip newsletter. What a wonderful way to remember those in our history and be Thankful for them, than to reuse their things. In fact, while at Grandma's this week ask to hunt through her things. She may really enjoy the time looking through them with you and the idea of you using them for your family.

If you happen to have any of Grandma's embroidered tray cloths, you've got gold. These pockets could make any skirt/dress simply sweet.

The tutorial is at Beccy's blog, Wipster, just follow the link (for some reason I couldn't get to copy here)...there's much more to learn there as well.

SquigglyTwigs is featured!

Our ruffle tutorial has been featured at Craft Gossip. Yeah! See it here. Craft Gossip is an amazing site for learning new things about any craft. It's definitely worth a visit and a favorite place of our's.

Dickey's by Reggie: My mom's new business

My mom is making mock turtleneck dickies. She's using high quality interlock knit and has them available in many colors. If you happen to be one of those warmer people who find wearing a turtleneck under a sweater way too hot, this is what you need.
She's selling them at only $4 + shipping.
Leave a comment below, and I'll get her contact info to you right away.

New Skirt coming! My Daughter's Design

My little girl loves her patchwork dresses so much that she drew up this skirt, complete with many colors, and asked me to make it. So, the other day a designing friend pitched a scrap contest. The idea is to use only what's on hand and mostly scaps to create something. I decided that it was time to get this skirt going.

So I sat my little girl down with the scrap box and asked her to choose the fabrics and trims she'd like to use for her skirt. Was she ever excited! She (and I) happens to be a SisBoom fan and all of the fabrics she picked are SisBoom fabrics. We have others in the bin, but this is what she asked for. She also picked some ribbon and ric rac, and of course she finally got to put pom poms on something. She's been waiting months for that opportunity.

While she did that, I went to work on calculations. Your big girls will be happy to know that, when completed, this pattern will go up to size 8 (misses). It will take a lot of 5" squares to make a misses size 8, but with a cutting mat and a rotary cutter, the stack and wack method makes cutting quite quick.

We worked together, I cut and did the pinning. She did most of the sewing, from my lap. We're both quite proud of our work together and she LOVES her skirt. Oh...it twirls very well.

Christmas Dress: Now you can make one, too and more!

We have a new e-Pattern for you. With the encouragement of a friend, thanks Lori, I've written up the Fun and Easy Knit Top/Dress e-pattern. You really can create tops and dresses to your liking with ease. You can see a 3rd version (shirt and seperate skirt) at Lori's blog.

This top pattern is designed to be easy to fit and quick to assemble, yet stylish.
You have the opportunity to use a knit shirt that fits well to create a variety of shirts/dresses for yourself or anyone in your family.
Using the well fitting shirt as a template, this pattern will teach you to draft a shirt pattern of your own. It's really very easy and only involves creating 3 pattern pieces; front, back, sleeve. We've made many of these shirts already. In fact, it's easy to make a new one than to wash a dirty one...lol.
From this pattern you can lengthen or shorten sleeves, or shirt length, add ruffles, bands, or even a skirt to create a dress.
The techniques within this pattern are not meant to teach sewing in the “traditional” sense, but to help you create garments in a quick, yet stylish way.

Happy Sewing!
Debbie @ SquigglyTwigs Designs