New Toys!

I finally got my new toy!  I'm so excited!  My hubby has been playing with his new bar-b-que's for the last few weeks I was starting to feel left out!  My new toy is finally here!  I love to sew, sewing is my stress outlet.  The more I sew the more it relieves!  Anyways my new toy is an embroidery machine!  Fabulous!  I love it!  The kids love to watch it!

This is the first try at it. Oops.  The green is supposed to be the stem & leaves.  And so I tried again after talking to my older sister who has an embroidery machine for many years!

Ta-da!!! It worked!  Sorry it's sideways!  And here's some more!

Now the machine is working on a pink sea horse!  Here it is finished!

And now a teal one.  I love this color!!

And here is the teal sea horse being worked on.

Here's a dolphin!  I flipped it too!

 

This is a fun new mommy toy!  Gives me something else to do while my buddy is at morning Kindergarten.  The sea life blocks are going to be turned into a quilt.  I'll share the final project once I get enough blocks and get it sewn up!

I hope all you readers are adjusting to kids being back in school and that life is good!

Teenagers!

Hi everyone!  Ever get one of those phone calls?  Sometimes I know my oldest just wants to hang out with his friends instead of coming home and doing the tremendous amount of homework his teachers have been assigning.  I got one of those calls.  I wasn't going to answer when the caller id showed the high school number. I just had one of those feelings. I picked it up. Talk about mother heart failure.  The school called 911 for my oldest.  One of the EMT's tried to get my buddy to take a sticker from him.  Absolutely no he would not!

As soon as they left he snagged the sticker from his hands.  He had an allergic reaction.  No biggie. No it wasn't peanuts, but I think he learned his lesson not to eat or drink from his friends.  Good thing it isn't the sunshine he's allergic to!  Okay on to other stuff.

I worked on a quilt this weekend. Here's a sneak peak!

It's going to be awesome!!  I got all the strips sewn. I just have to add a WOW factor to it and then sew all the strips and the wow together!

It might be Monday, but let's make the most of it!  After all here in my neck of the woods it's sunny!

Thanks for stopping by and reading! I need to get working!

What are your plans for the week?

Patterns

I went to JoAnn's because they are having their Daffodil Dash sale.  I'm not going to get into details of what is on sale, but I will tel you McCall brand patterns are a buck! Yes you read that right! A dollar!  How exciting!  I was in need of a skirt pattern till today.  I've been cruising Pintrest and have found nothing I would want to use.  I already have the fabric.  It was the rest of what was on the bolt, so I don't have much but want to make something fabulous other than the black skirts I wear every Sunday to church.

I haven't decided which one I am going to make yet. Probably the one on the far left.  Or maybe the other pattern on the far right on the top.  I haven't decided yet.  So many choices!!  I think the one on the right.  I have some fabric in mind for the one on the left.  I just am waiting for it to come on sale and to have the money at the same time!  Finances, UGH!

Okay what do you think; which one should I make?


PS the sale ends this Saturday!

Crafty Bag

Awesome!  I finished it!  Yay! I love how it turned out!  I love the fabric, the colors, the print, style. This was part of a Pintrest bag but as I said yesterday I got part way done and started to do my own thing on it.  It's kinda fancy and girly!  LOVE IT!  Now hopefully my daughter wont claim it as hers!  I hope my fellow craft swap group person loves it too!  I really hope so!

Here's a view from the inside!

I love how fancy it turned out!  A lot of work went into this. Here's another view of the bag.

I hope you like it.  Go here to find the link to the pattern. Go here for the Pintrest link to repin & like.  I think you will see the differences in the size, particularly the bottom.

Have you made anything from Pintrest lately? Successful projects or flops? Tell me about them.

Sewing Project - Bag/Purse

Hi There!  I've been working on one of my craft swap projects.  One of my ladies loves paisley. I fell in love with this remnant with a paisley pattern. Here's a sneak peak on how the project is turning out!  I hope she loves it!

I installed these grommets yesterday!  Never used them before!  I followed the directions, was kinda nervous!  It turned out awesome!  (Sorry no picture yet of them installed!)

The pattern I followed didn't have a pocket on the inside.  I made my own.

I have two of these handles to make.  It's quite time consuming. I have one left to finish.  Hopefully it will be done soon so I can sew the handles onto the bag! (The white fabric has paisley print too!)

Here's a peek at what the outside of the bag looks like!  This is about where I stopped following the pattern and did my own thing.  I really hope my craft receiver loves it!

I'm going to finish this up today and post pictures of it tomorrow!  I was just so excited to share it with you, I had to post!!

See you tomorrow with pictures of completion of the bag!!

Orange Bag

I've been busy crafting away and looking for some really good deals on fabric.  Here's something I sewed up recently with some fabric remnants I bought at Walmart.  The light orange with small white flowers and the quilted lining fleece I already had.  The big white flowers on the main body and the dark orange lining fabric cost me less than 3 bucks! Wahooo, I love a good deal!

This pattern came from online. The bag was fairly easy to make and didn't take a lot of time.  I did the handles a bit different than theirs and didn't round the corners as much as their pattern. I used a quilt lining fleece that I had instead of their regular interfacing.  Here's the site where you can find the tutorial of how to make it found here. I love their green colors!

Okay I hope you crafters out there have recovered from the big Super Bowl game and that your team won!  Let's craft up a storm this week!

What are you going to craft this week?