My break ended last week with the arrival of almost 40 yards of crushed velvet to be turned into 10 panels for window coverings. That really got me in gear and I whipped those out in a day and a half. Then came the announcement of the Cub Scout craft sale on December 8. Whaa? Did somebody say craft sale? That really got me going...
So I made some key chains!
Super easy, the brown is bias tape, and the rest is ribbon. I still need to make about 50 more!
While I was at the Cub Scout meeting, one of the leaders mentioned aprons. Ohh Ohh mee mee, I make aprons! Challenge accepted. I went home and started rummaging through my fabric closet. I got out all of my remnants and started making little girl aprons. They are great for remnants because they only need half a yard or so of the main fabric, and very little of the contrast. This was so much fun for me. I have a 6yr old boy. I never get to sew girl stuff. After I made the apron I asked him to try it on (to check the fit) NO WAY MOM!
Here is the first one I made.
After this one came out soo darn cute, I got super excited, (you know, the kind where you are dreaming about coordinating fabrics). I woke up the next morning and whipped out 2 more aprons.
This is what I put together in my sleep!
I think I need to dream sew more often.
After digging through all of my fabric, I found this great cherry fabric I had ordered months ago. I didn't really forget about it, it had just temporarily slipped my mind. When I ordered it, it just screamed MAKE AN APRON OUT OF ME! But I had only ordered 1 yard of the main fabric and 1/2 yard of the contrast. I finally found a pattern that only needed 1 yard!!
Here it is!
Remember, this sew-a-thon started on Monday with 40 yards of curtains? Well, now its Friday, and I start my day with a trip to JoAnn's. I told myself all week that I was not going to buy anything for this donation, I really needed to purge my fabric closet. But then I got the greatest idea to make stockings. I needed red fabric, so I HAD to go, right????
I found my red fabric, and here are the stockings I came up with.
I used old denim for the patchwork.
I have a pic of all 4 that I made, but I am currently having technical difficulties with that picture.
I will post it later ;)
And who would have guessed that while I was at JoAnn's, I found some really great Christmas fabric to make mother-daughter aprons? I ran out of time to make them on Friday. I was so disappointed, I have to work on Saturday and Sunday. (I can't play all of the time, gotta make some $$ to buy more fabric!) The Christmas aprons will have to wait until next week :(
I apologize for the picture quality. I will come back with some better pics on Monday.
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