I'm getting started on my first lot of custom one-of-a-kind little girls clothing. My husband and I had a nice (long needed) weekend away last weekend and I got to go fabric shopping. We were in the Montery Bay area and I found a quilt store in Pacific Grove, Back Porch Fabric, (http://www.backporchfabrics.com/). The ladies there where very friendly and they had a wonderful selection of fabrics.
After coming home I went shoping for the things that I would need for the finishing work of the garmets, like zippers and trim and the like. I love this part of what I do, it is so much fun for me to choose the things I like and imagine what they will turn out like. I have learned to be flexable when I was making quilts about design ideas changing, because I woud often have to adjust my ideas as I go. This works the same with making clothing, my ideas will often morph as I go alone and the garmet will look very different than what I origionally saw in my head. This is fun, it's like the fabric and embelishments have a life of their own!
I'm starting this blog to give people an ide of who I am, and how I create my pieces. I will blog soon about what the name d.d.Mariedee means and how I chose it for my work.
