I clearly am the worst blogger...

Hey there friends.

So new house new sewing cave, for those keeping count this is sewing cave 4.0. (Stafford, Quantico, Fairview, Ridgefield) I know this won't be the last one but it's finally pretty fully functional (just need to clean out the closet) and hang some curtains & blinds. 

Here's a little peak. I'm hoping it will double as a play room, maybe I can sew more when my lovely daughter is playing.

Inspired by a huge fall clean up I decided to make a really quick potholder. I also wanted to check out my embroider and make sure I still knew what I was doing. I made a cute Halloween potholder that's definitely not perfect I'm pretty rusty after not sewing for quite some time (almost a year!...gasp). 

I did not center it! Whops. That will drive me crazy, but not to bad for a first project with no pattern after almost a year. I have to say I'm still pretty impressed with the embroidery function on my machine. I just need to figure out how to upload more designs. It's a lot of fun even just with the preloaded designs. 

Hopefully having a neat and organized area will help me better get back into the sewing groove. I really do miss it a lot and I feel like I stopped right when I was turning the corner from beginer to Novice. I would like to make a dress from this Craftsy class I enrolled in, and I would really love to become proficient only serger. Maybe for Christmas I should ask for more lessons (and babysitting) once a week to advance my skills a bit. 

Anyway, clearly I'm the worst blogger since I haven't been on here since January. Let's hope I get better at this , since I know you miss me ;)

Oh and here's the hair bow I made.

Maybe now with a more normal schedule for a while I can start doing more projects....we will see!

Have a great week :)

Share

Day of the Dead rehash

So i bought this awesome fabric from superbuzzy.com  and I had some left, also some extra brown velvet from my cape adventure.  I made two things that actually cameout somewhat respectable.

Day of the Dead Bag

and


Day of the Dead Tea Cozy

The tea cozy was extremely easy to make and I am so pleased with the results.  I am sending it to my cousin Mary to be a beta tester.  I don't have a porcelian tea pot, and when I drink tea its usually from our Keurig, so I thought the beta testing should be done by an avid tea drinker.

I was thinking, prompted by a quite a few people telling me to open an Etsy store, that maybe I should.  Maybe one day it will bring in so much income I wouldn't have to work full time haha.  Since I don't think my skills are up to par just yet, like I still think my purse came out sloppy---Billy tells me I'm just overly critical---I thought tea cozy's would be a great way to make really easy, very neat looking projects that can fetch a few bucks....if there is actually a market.  Stay tuned.



 Oh and since the wedding is over is a photo of what I made the girls to go with their dresses.  I hope they liked them I had lots of fun making them :)

On another note...I am so excited my christmas present this year is to go take a clothes making private sewing lessing at The Sewing Studio in NYC.  I am just as giddy as a school girl to get to go do this!

Anyway that's all the sewing I have done these past few days.  ACTUALLY that's a lie!  I made pine filled sachets as the favor for my sister's cookie party I can't attend.  They were a lot more work than I anticipated but they came out so friggin cute.  I hope all the guests enjoy them---they smell so good I didn't want to give them to her!  I will ask her to take some photos for the blog.  They were really easy to make.  Perhaps I will make a tutorial on them, its a 4-5 step process and you can make each for less than 2 bucks how awesome is that?

Happy Tuesday!

Share