NESTING!! I'm going crazy with nesting! So many things to do and so little time. Seriously, who knows if she'll make her debut in a week, or in 3?!? AH! OH well, if stuff just doesn't get done, it doesn't get done! We move on, right? Maybe you could say I'm just going a little crazy. Chris will agree with that, I know. He's just been so patient with me during the whole pregnancy, he should get an award or something. Well, I've got a few projects stewing in our basement (aka garage). Only a few of which have had the privilege to see completion. A couple of months ago, my friend Carrie sent me a link to a really awesome tutorial. I've been meaning to try out Brooklyn Bean's smocked dress tutorial for ages now, and finally I got around to doing it!! YAY! So, I didn't know what the term smocking was until 5 or 6 months ago (embarrassing? yes) and I didn't know until just a couple of months ago that you can do it on a standard sewing machine. Hand sewing can be a little tedious sometimes. The totally cute dress you see below, took me a total of 40 minutes, thank goodness for electric sewing machines. I think it would've taken me less time if my sewing machine didn't keep breaking the thread.

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Now that I am comfortable with machine smocking, I've been daydreaming non-stop about the different ways I could incorporate machine smocking. All of my ideas involve some sort of outfit where I'd have to have a waist instead of a large belly. It might be a few months before any of those projects happen. here are a couple of dress drawings...