Back to my Heirloom Project

I had to take a break from working on my Summer Garden heirloom dress to do some embroidery work for a customer.  I need to learn more about digitizing designs and just recently found out I have a wonderful training DVD by Trevor Conquerwood with Sunset Stitches in Canada.  So I reviewed a few of the lessons on lettering.  There is about ten hours of lessons for me to watch someday!  I finished the lettering and embroidered the shirts and a jacket for my customer.  She was happy, so I'm happy! :)

While I'm talking about lessons, I just got a DVD set by Kenneth King on fitting called Smart Fitting.  So some more videos to watch in my spare time.

But right now, I hope to get back to work on my little dress.  I finished the smocking and embroidery and also the embroidery on the collar pieces.  Below is a picture of the embroidery for one of the collar pieces.  Now that the embroidery is done I'm ready to cut out the collar pieces.

I also cut some bias pieces out of royal blue baby check gingham that will be used for some trim on the dress.  I'll post pictures later showing the trim.

Thanks for reading along!

Marla