pj's

My niece's birthday is a few days after Christmas. I knew she'd get a ton of toys for both, so I figured I'd make something that my SIL would appreciate a wee bit more than toys she had to find room for! On Black Friday, I found some awesome flannel (you can't beat $1.49/yard!) and picked it up. I also grabbed a plain white shirt to go with it.

I used basically the same process as I do when making Lexi's pants...use her old ones as a pattern and make them longer or shorter. Since Brooke is two, she went shorter, but the rest of the pants are the same as Lexi is super skinny and could fit into a 24 month pant if she didn't have such long legs!

I love the final product. Unfortunately, the ribbon is just for looks (although it can be untied, it's stitched to the pants). One of these days, I'll learn how to use it as a draw string.

I cut out one of the smaller flowers to use on her shirt to tie it in to the pants. Pinned it to the shirt and sewed around it twice to make sure it would stay. I wish I could have these for myself, I love them so much!!

trick or treat bag

My little Rapunzel needed a new trick or treat bag that was a bit bigger. I had some cute Halloween fabric and figured I'd try a tutorial I had pinned. It was really easy to follow and didn't take too terribly long (maybe 2.5 hours, but I'm slow at cutting and that darn computer drags me towards it a lot!). Rapunzel LOVED it and it was perfect for going to Trunk Or Treat on Sunday :)

camera bag take 2

I made another camera bag for a friend. This one I made twice...I screwed up the first one!

Her favorite color is orange, so I found this in my stash of fabric and was able to put the plain orange as the liner. I was even able to use some Raspberry Fizz ribbon as a strap/holder.

Unlike my last bag, this one has a velcro closure. Not what I wanted, but it worked :)

apple towels

I found some towels on clearance at Target oh, about 9 months ago! Two for only $1.50. I've been wanting to sew something on them, but couldn't figure out what. I decided I'd do something for my mom's birthday. She has her kitchen in red and green apples.

I pulled out my Cricut and used the Plantin Schoolbook cartridge (I never use those anymore!) and cut out an apple on cardstock. I then took squares of fabric and adhered heat n bond to the backs, traced the apple and cut it out.

I had one heck of a time getting the back of the heat n bond off so it could adhere to the towels, but I did it. And then I sewed them to it. My mom absolutely loved them. And, bonus, the green fabric matches the cushions on her kitchen chairs exactly :)

I had also seen a cool decoration on pinterest using Mason jars. While we were at Brandon's grandma's, I noticed she had a bunch and she told me to go ahead and take as many as I wanted. Score! So, I made one up for my mom. I didn't put any epsom salt in the bottom since it was only August and I thought she might want to do something else with it before Christmas.

I made a few up for myself. One of the parties we threw, I cut a bunch of wild flowers from our yard and put in them. Right now, I have small decorative pumpkins and gourds filling one for fall. I'll try and take a picture :)

taggie

I've had several babies come into the family this fall (my SIL (brother's wife), sister and other SIL (husband's sister)) have all been pregnant! I love the influx of babies, but it's meant that I've needed some good baby gifts. I've always loved the little taggie blankets and wanted to make one myself. I found a good tutorial and followed that.

It was so simple!! I think it took me longer to pick out the fabric and ribbon than it did to make it! I added two lines of stitching around the outside just to make it a little more finished than in the tutorial.

Camera bag

For my birthday, my awesome husband got me a new point and shoot camera. The one I had was 6 or 7 years old and wasn't even ours...used to by my FIL's. I wanted something I could easily tuck in my purse and have with me all the time. The only problem? I didn't have a case. For a month or two, I kept it in the bag it came packaged in, but I knew it wouldn't last. So I pulled out some fun fabrics and attempted to make a bag myself!

This was my first time using interfacing. It was pretty easy to use. The black fabric I had picked up on a whim one day at Jo Ann's....before I was really even sewing anything!

It rolls up so there's a little more padding on the camera. Unfortunately, I forgot I wanted to put a strap on it. Thankfully, my camera has one on it, so if I'm just carrying that, I can keep the strap hanging out and it works perfectly! Of course I had to finish it off using a PTI Spring Moss Button! :)

PJ Pants

Wow...guess the summer got the best of me and my blogging, huh? Thankfully, I have been busy doing some crafting....more with my sewing machine than anything else, though. I've got some stuff that needs blogged about, so hopefully you'll come back again!

After I made my daughter a pair of ruffle pants, I figured they were pretty easy and I could handle making her some pj pants.

Pretty nice for the first attempt, huh? I'm pretty happy! I love them and so does she, so that makes me a really happy camper! On her ruffle pants, she's always asking which is the front and which is the back, so this time, I made a little bow and sewed it on.

It's a light pink, so it looks great with the black and white. I hope you're having a great summer....I just can't believe it's almost over already! :(