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Happy New Year! I canāt believe it is already 2012. 2011 went by so quickly. Weāre en route back to New York today, but I have one more Christmas revealāan eyeglasses case that I made for Mom (to go with reading glasses I purchased), who claimed she only wanted to see us for Christmas, but constantly comments on Facebook that she doesnāt have her reading glasses, so she couldnāt really see everything well. Now she has glasses to see the small-scale of this glasses case!
I initially wrote up a tutorial, but then when I tried to follow my own tutorial, it just didnāt make a lot of sense, so Iāll simply have to leave you with a few photos. I promise to fix up the tutorial sometime this month! (more…)
Welcome back to another Vacation Christmas reveal. I was far busier over the past two months than you might have guessed based on the frequency of my posts here. Now that weāre traveling to Missouri and delivering gifts, I can show you what Iāve been working on. These were the last of three types of gifts I made for the 10 nieces and nephews Carl and I have between our two families.
The two youngest nieces were a bit of a challenge for me. I made a bag for the older one (four) for her birthday a few months ago, so didnāt want to duplicate it, and the youngest isnāt yet two, so I wanted something else appropriate for them. (more…)
Welcome back to another Vacation Christmas reveal. I was far busier over the past two months than you might have guessed based on the frequency of my posts here. Now that weāre traveling to Missouri and delivering gifts, I can show you what Iāve been working on. These were the second of three types of gifts I made for the 10 nieces and nephews Carl and I have between our two families.
Boys are hard to sew for. I never know what to make. It seems like 90% of the projects out there that are age appropriate (6ā10y.o.) are also very girly. But, when I came across Chez Beeper Bebeās Nature Explorer Bag, I knew Iād found my project. In the right colors and fabrics, itās perfectly boyish, but still useful. Itās also relatively quick and painless, which was awesome, because at Thanksgiving, Carlās sister announced that sheās engaged and he has two boys of his own, so that upped the number of these bags to five! (more…)
Welcome back to another Vacation Christmas reveal. I was far busier over the past two months than you might have guessed based on the frequency of my posts here. Now that weāre traveling to Missouri and delivering gifts, I can show you what Iāve been working on. These were one of three types of gifts I made for the 10 nieces and nephews Carl and I have between our two families.
Over the summer, I saw the Summer Reading Bag posted on Sew Mama Sew and knew it would be a great gift. It was quick to make, simple to put together and overall seems to be a great hit. I made these bags for the five oldest nieces, who range from 4ā13. (more…)
Itās Christmas week and weāre on vacation, but itās time to unveil the finished Strip-pieced Lone Star/Star of Bethlehem quilt. You got a sneak preview last month, when I reviewed Natureās Touch batting, so without further ado, here is the full quilt.
Iāve been waiting for snow to photograph it outside, but here we are Christmas Eve (well, when I wrote this), and Uticaās had no snow stick yet this season. So, these photos I took inside will have to do.
I hope you are having a wonderful holiday season, whatever you celebrate! Here in my world, weāre gearing up to celebrate our first Christmas in our new home tomorrow, and after trying to weasel out of spending most of the day at his parentsā house, ended up volunteered to host Christmas dinner (sans oven!). Weāre off on our annual end-of-the-year trip to Missouri (both Kansas City and the Lake of the Ozarks) to visit my family starting Monday. Once we get to MO, I have a full five daysā worth of present reveals scheduled to show you.
Last Sunday, Carl asked me how long it took to make a quick quilt, and Iāclearly out of my mindātold him I could make his Grandma one by Christmas. So I did. She wonāt receive it by Christmas, seeing as we just mailed it yesterday, but it is finished. (more…)
(ā¦yesterday, not now) ā¦ and Carl, while frazzled shopping for Grandma at the third store and finding nothing, asked ādear, how long does it take to make a quiltā? And, I, clearly drunk from shopping all day, said āit can be shipped off by Christmas, if we shop for fabric now, donāt delay!ā
Uhh, so that is how I got myself into making a quilt this week, on top of the other projects Iām working on.
This has been a pretty big year for changesāwe adopted Moof back in March and now we have our new house, complete with an actual mantle in the living room! So, of course, Moof needs his own stocking to hang.
I donāt know which of us actually came up with the idea, but Carl and I were joking a few weeks ago about how Moof chews on pretty much anything, so if we got him a stocking, itād probably be chewed up. We thought it would be funny if he had a pre-āchewedā stocking with child-like lettering. (more…)
Most of my gifts are going into basic paper gift bags (yes, Iām too lazy to gift wrap soft stuff or box, then wrap, it all), especially since I already made the gifts themselves, but there is one present Iām excited about that I decided to whip up a quick gift bag for.
The gift
A young friend is getting her first sewing machine for Christmas, so in addition to advising the giver on basic sewing tool kit stuff, I thought it would be great to give a quick first project for her to work on (she does have a bit of experience from whatever they call home ec class these days).
So, I bought a pajama pants pattern (which also comes with the pattern to make a dog sweatshirtāhow cute!), two spools of thread (hey, it was bogo, why not?), the elastic for the waistband, and the fabric for the pants. In other words, everything she needs to make the pattern, that isnāt in her sewing kit. (more…)
First off, it is Sew Mama Sew giveaway day but I didnāt get my act together, so I have nothing to give away here. But you should check out all the great blogs and their giveaways!
What I did get started working on this weekend is organizing my sewing room a bit. I need more shelves. Hereās a start:
