Cool beach gear...

Dillon left this morning for the beach with my parents, and I made him a beach bag and muscle tee to take along. :)


The blue on the front is a scrapbook patch from me&my BIG ideas. I love using sb materials in my sewing.


And the elastic on the neck and arm holes is a cute stripe that matches perfectly, here's a closeup, and a sneak peak at Lucas's almost-matching shirt:

Sewing for Svea: modelled

She's such a cutie, here she is modelling the hoodie, pants, and sweets top that I made for her 5th birthday:

For Hannah, part two

This was supposed to be gifted to Hannah this past Friday, but their plans changed and we weren't able to meet up with them before they left for WI. However, I'll be shipping this out to her as soon as they arrive at their new house.

The bag:


The contents:


All packed up:


Dillon really liked the colored pencil roll, so much that I'm going to make one for him, for his trip to NC with my parents next week. Hmm, maybe I should get started on that soon. :)

Sewing for Svea...

Svea, my friend Amber's DD, will be 5 on Friday. My fave little girl to sew for :heart: I should really do it more often.

KS hoodie from fabric.com pink FT:


Sweatpants and bell-sleeved swing top from Ottobre, pink FT and sweets knit:


I had Lucas try the pants on, so I could see if I could mod the pattern to make them for him, and see if they were "boy" enough for him (the pattern was meant for girls, and the smallest size is 2 up from his current pant size), and they are too big and too long, so I really hope they fit Svea, who isn't that much bigger than Luke. But the good news is that I can mod the pattern for him, and he thinks he neesd pink pants to match his friend. I said "how about orange?"

Cute little things...

Ever since he made little Halloween gift bags last fall, Dillon has been after me to find neat little things that he can make. After seeing the snugbug tissue holder that I made for Hannah (the one that holds bubblegum, lol), he decided that would be good. We cut 3 out in various sizes, one is just as the sewalong specifies, one is a bit narrower (leftover strip after cutting out quilt sqaures, just used what we had), and one is 2 inches wider, and I added 1" of length to each section to make it bigger. The black (motorcycles) and blue (ocean life, from the ocean/beach quilt swap at AW) worked out great, so we put snaps on them. He refused to sew the pink one (although he did iron and fold it with me), but when I sewed it up and flipped it, I realized that I didn't add enough length in one section, so the flap didn't fold all the way down, it only cam halfway. Wracked my brain on how to make it useable as it was, and decided to put eyelets in the top corners and string thin ribbon thorugh it. I tied it around the headrest of the passenger seat in my car, and it works great for holding CDs, and the smaller pocket has my Rita's card in it, lol.







TFL!!

Productive

After I got the moaning and groaning out of my system, I made a sweets shirt and pink FT hoodies for a very *sweet* little girl who has a 5th birthday coming up. Made the matching FT pants a few days ago. Haven't gotten pics yet, will try to get them up tomorrow, we'll see. But hey, see, whining can be productive, LOL!

Where I whine and ramble

I need to get some sewing done, but I'm just not feeling motivated...and you'd think that the mounds of fabric taking up space in my tiny house would be a motivator...but no, I like to look at them. What I need to do is stop buying more fabric, and stop trading for fabric. It's bad, I tell you. Hello, my name is Jessica, and I'm a certified fabric collecting junkie. Stash Game is coming up, starts next Saturday. That's when the girls on the sewing board sew as much as they can during a 4 week time period, making everything from fabric/notions that they already have. You get positive points for sewing "from stash", and negative points for buying, i.e. adding to the stash. It's been a really great motivator for me in the past, and I'm looking forward to it again (we do it 2x a year, usually Feb and Aug), but I feel like I just have no time anymore, as much as I want to, I am just too beat when we get home in the evening to do anything, and I have to get to bed, so I can get up at 5:30 and start the whole thing over again.

OK, enough moaning, time to shower and get dressed and maybe sew.