Birthdays are coming! Birthdays are coming!

Having a birthday party soon?

"Can you match these pants?"

I was sent a picture message of these pants with a request to make a shirt to match them. I couldn't get it perfect, but I still like how it turned out. I hope my happy little niece likes it!!!



It was so much fun to make! Challenging, but fun. It was hard not to make it too busy. I didn't want the shirt to out-do those awesome pants!



Of course I had to add some bows! (Thanks again Late Aunt Margie for the material)



I figured out how to make embroidery knots to help accent the fruit.

In honor of Earth Day

I found this tank top at a yard sale for a quarter and spruced it up for Earth Day. It is so fun now that people are cleaning out their closets because I can find some really great deals on blank shirts! Yay!



Sorry for the blog hiatus. The sun came out this spring and we ran out the door and have been outside ever since. It felt good to sew again. I have a few things I am working on and should put them up shortly. Hope everybody is enjoying the sunshine!!

Fun With Sleeves

Now that I know how to bunch the sleeves, I wanted to see how they would look with little bows on them. The material I used to make the bows is actually meant to accent a dress hem, but its all I had and it worked! I am really getting the improvising thing down.

Bunching Sleeves

Thanks to my very talented sister-in-law Marie, I learned to how to bunch the sleeves of the shirts to make them a little more girly.

It is actually quite easy to do. If you have a sewing machine and some shirts then all you need is some elastic. First measure the circumference of the sleeve and take off 1.5 inches. That is how long you want your elastic to be.


Turn the shirt inside out and start your stitch at the bottom (where the armpit is) so that most of the stitching will be hidden under the arm. You have to go back and forth a few times with the machine to get the stitch started and to make it strong enough to stretch as you sew. Pull the elastic pretty tight as you sew.



That's it. Your done! Takes about 4 minutes to do. Not bad.



You could even add some buttons or bows on the sleeves to complete the look.



Again, many thanks to Marie for taking time off from decorating 3 cakes, baking two more and getting ready for a yard sale to help me with this!

The T-Shirt Quilt is Finished!

All Done!

Yet Another Bag

I really like making bags. They are nothing to write home about, but they are simple and who doesn't love a bag? I had made this applique for a cape for Lyla, but it turned out that somebody else had the same idea and beat me to it. I decided to put it on a bag that Lyla and her mom can use for the library. I met Ashley at the library so it seemed fitting.


I always try to learn something new with everything I make. With this bag I figured out how to square the edges of the bag. I have been sewing a whole piece of material in my bags to do the same thing, thus making it much much harder than it needed to be. Thank goodness for online tutorials!!!


Check out the super awesome, vintage lining. :) All of the material I used for this bag was handed down to me by Jeff's late Aunt Margie. I am so grateful for the family to let me have some of her sewing stuff. I have already had a lot of fun with it.