Arpon--Wedding Gift

A few months ago I wrote a post about bridesmaids gifts, well the wedding is this weekend! Nope not my wedding! I have been married almost 5 years now! My cousin, Kyle, is getting married to a very wonderful lady named Danae!

Even though we aren't going to be able to attend the wedding, I really wanted to send a gift! I have been sitting around for months trying to decide what to make for them. At first, I was going to make both of them aprons, but I wasn't sure if Kyle would like one. So, last night I finally figured out what I wanted to do. A cafe style apron, with a pleated pocket, and ruffles!

I used the same fabric that I used in for the bridesmaids purses! Danae didn't get one for herself, so I figured I would make her a little something with the left overs. I decided to do the same type of strip work as I used for the purses. The pocket is one of my favorite parts! It is just a cute pleated pocket. There is an awesome tutorial over on the Made By Rae blog! Very Easy! Then I added the ruffle. That was probably the worst part to do! My thread broke while I was gathering one side. So I did the rest by just pining where I thought it needed to be gathered!



I love how it turned out and I think I will be making several more in the future!

This was featured on Women Who Do It All!
http://womenwhodoitall.blogspot.com/2010/04/more-mothers-day-gift-ideas.html

Make Life.....Beautiful!

I am in love with Moda, Moda Bake Shop, and the Make Life line of fabric! So beautiful!

If you have never been to the Moda Bake Shop, you don't know what you are missing! This is an awesome place to find super cute tutorials for all of the cute Moda fabrics! I was browsing the Bake Shop last week and found the Charm Pack Reversible Purse! I knew I had the perfect fabric for this and the perfect person to make it for!

My Mom had a birthday back on the 22nd of Febuary and I still needed a present! I also had a charm pack handy! Make Life by Sweetwater for Moda! Need I say more! The colors in this fabric line are beautiful! They are very springy and very bright!

Everything was going awesome until I got to sewing and the straps....didn't go so well! I was so frustrated when I tried 3 times and still couldn't get them lined up just perfectly! I was getting very tired of my seam ripper. I finally went upstairs to tell my husband how frustrated I was and of course he told me exactly what to do! Undo the top stiching and open the seam stick the straps in and sew it all back together! Not quite the same look for the straps but it still looks super cute!

I don't fault the author of the tutorial for my troubles with the straps! I think I just am not quite at the right skill level for making it work out right! I can't wait to make this bag again! I think I may make another one with more Make Life.. Fabric! I will do blue and yellow together and red and green together! I also have some Nicey Jane fabric picked out to make a 3rd! I can see many of these bags in my future!

Here is the link for the tutorial!
http://www.modabakeshop.com/2010/02/botany-charm-pack-reversible-purse.html#more

Baby Projects!

With the baby arriving at the beginning of March, I have been very busy making all sorts of baby items!

One of the first items I made was a quilt for Our baby! It came out really cute. A little background info first! My husband was born and raised in the south. He is always wearing a shirt that says something about the south. He has also been in the army for almost 10 years. The quilt is composed of 9 squares. Four of the squares are made out of his old army uniforms. All I did was cut the back away and used random sized strips. It is made out of ACUs, BDUs, and DCUs. The other 5 squares are from my husband's t-shirt stash. I think it came out to be a good size. At first I think it will just be something for the baby to lay on while we play!

The second item was a baby rag quilt! I had gone to TARGET over Christmas time and was wondering around the baby section. They had several different receiving blankets on clearance. I picked out a cute 3 pack and knew right away that I was going to use them for a rag quilt! The blankets were each a 1 yard square. So the blanket is composed of 6 yards of fabric. The top is the receiving blankets and the back is just a brown flannel. I used 99, 6 inch squares.

The third thing I made is the Wee Wee Wigwam from Make it and love it! I will post a link at the bottom of the page! These are super cute and super easy. They went together in about 3 minutes for each one! I used the left over squares I had from the rag quilt!

The next items weren't for me to keep but for my brother to give as a gift to one of his friends who just recently had a baby. He wanted a few bibs and burpcloths. He really thought that I should make one pair in Camouflage and the others really didn't matter. Just boy prints. And we also made a tag blanket and it came out really cute too!

I have made even more baby stuff but that will have to be in a different post. We are in the middle of getting ready to move and I still need to finish the rest of our baby bedding. It is camoflauge, with touches of orange! Very boyish! I still have the bumper pad to go and a pad for the back of my glider.

http://makeitandloveit.blogspot.com/2009/08/wee-wee-wigwam.html

Another Art Tote

I love this Art Tote pattern! I wrote a review of it in a previous post!


I ended up keeping the first one that I made. I keep my sewing stuff in it! Scissors fit great in the side pockets, and my patterns fit nicely inside. Seam rippers, small scissors, and seam gauges don't get lost when they are in the small outside pockets.

I made a second one for my mom! She teaches 3rd grade and aways has a ton of pens and highlighters on her desk. So I thought maybe this would help keep her desk more organized.

She says she loves it because it is so sturdy and that now she knows where to find all of her stuff. She keeps glue sticks and scissors on the inside so that her students can just come up and know where to find the stuff!

I bought this pattern from an ETSY shop but I am pretty sure they don't sell it there anymore. It is now on You Can Make This Dot com! The awesome thing about this pattern is that it is only $6 and you can make them and sell them!

http://youcanmakethis.com/info/handbags/The-Art-Caddy-.htm

Bridesmaids Gifts

I have been working on custom orders! I have a family member getting married in a couple of months and his bride-to-be wanted handmade gifts!

She wanted their wedding colors to be involved. Lime green, black, and purple are really hard to find all in one print. I personally think purple is hard to find period. Alice Kennedy has a great line of Black and Lime green prints! I bought 6 half-yards and cute 2 1/2 inch strips and sewed them together used those for the tops of the bag and then used IKEA solids for the bottom!

They came together very quick and I think they are adorable! The bags went out in the mail today and I hope that when the bridesmaids receive them they love them just as much as I do!

Jewelry Rolls!

I just finished making 4 Jewelry rolls and I love each and everyone of them! The pattern I use is my own and I really want to write a tutorial for it! I don't know when I will ever find time to do that though!

I seem to always forget to take pictures during the sewing process! I also would have to type out directions and I am not sure if they would make sence to anyone but me!

These are for bridesmaids gifts! This is the second set of jewerly rolls that I have made for bridesmaids! I hope everyone loves them!

Acu Custom Orders!

These are pictures of the 2 most recent custom orders I have finished!

I have made several ACU purses in the past and I always love the turn out! I like using solid lining! It seems to give the most contrast to the ACU print!