Saturday, March 12, 2011

Yea! I got to sew today!

I finally got a chance to sew for a while today. I'm almost done with my jacket from the last post below. It's fully lined and all I have to do is hem the bottom & the sleeves add my buttons & buttonholes. I'm trying to decide on the buttons I'll use, these are my choices from my button stash, what do you all think? I'm leaning toward the middle one or the one to the right since it has some blue faded in. Your feedback would be very helpful. Also, last week I finished a lined skirt also from my last post, the fabric I used is on the left, Here's the skirt... Last post, I had posted about using this pattern, I thought I wanted to do the longer one, view C but didn't care for it at all on this current body so I'm sticking to the shorter lengths. I still plan to make the blue & black plaid check (in the picture) above but in a short version. That may have to wait for fall sewing now since spring is just around the corner I think since my sewing time is so limited lately I'd better get busy on sewing for spring & summer. More later...

Happy Sewing!!

Sunday, February 6, 2011

I'm getting there...

No sewing yet, but at least this weekend I did get to spend some time planning a few projects. First of all I went on a shopping spree without even leaving my house. I had a great time shopping my stash. I decided on a few pieces & pre-washed them and picked out the patterns I'm going to use. Note to self: (get back into the habit of pre-washing my fabric as I bring it home so it's ready to go when I'm ready to sew). Here's what I came up with...

This fabric is a blue/black crinkle type shark-skin poly. I'm making this jacket with the blue/black crinkle & the black piece of poly crepe fabric for the dress, Butterick 5147Then I re-discovered this OOP (out of print) pattern that I made quite a few years ago I always loved this pattern. I think I'll make three skirts, one long and the other two shorter out of these fabrics. Well that's what I'll be working on, after this I think I look toward Spring sewing.



Happy Sewing!!




Thursday, February 3, 2011

My Mojo is broken...

Help me!! I just can't seem to get my butt in gear. I'm wanting to sew, even recently bought more fabric but I'm stuck....I've had so many other distractions and work is a bit stressful lately. But I'm going to try to get something going this weekend. Maybe something easy and quick will do the trick. I want jackets & pants the most but heck, I'm in need of just about everything. It's always great to see what all of you are doing, I am always checking out my favorite blogs whether I'm sewing or not. So, keep up the great sewing and crafting you all are always an inspiration.

Happy Sewing!!

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Happy New Year!

I wish everyone a Very Happy New Year! I wish you all and your families a wonderfully blessed new year full of good health and happiness! I also wish for us all a year full of wonderful creativeness!

Happy Sewing!!

Sunday, December 19, 2010

A little Christmas Sewing

No garment sewing lately, just last week to decided to make some stocking stuffer & gifts to give to a couple co-workers. I found these of someone else' s blog and for the life of me I can't remember who it was. So, if someone else recognizes this and know the blog please let me know so I can give them the proper credit. These were a great last minute project and I was so glad they shared it. I had some Christmas fabric on so it was easy to get started. So these are napkins when folded form a Christmas tree These were quick and easy and fun to make.

First I made a cardboard 1/2 circle template, I made mine about 1 inch larger than the template in the instructions and I'm glad I did... then I folded the fabric in layers and traced the template with white chalk & cut several layers at once. I did mine with print fabric on one side and a solid on the otherThen I serged the edges...some in red, some green and some gold embroidery thread. There are several way to finish the edges but this was the quickestHere's a link to one set of instructions if you would like to add embroidery Christmas Tree Napkins, I also have another PDF of instructions that are a bit simpler (the one I used) without embroidery but I I don't know how to post the PDF. So, if you'd like that set of instructions send me an email. I'm going to make a few more this week and I'll be pretty much set for Christmas.

Have a very Merry Christmas everyone!

Happy Sewing!!
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