From dress rehearsal today:
So cute!!I enjoyed seeing all the pictures you have shared with us. Love the one of you and Alexa!
Thank you for all the replies regarding hoop size and machine preference. I would have been here sooner but I was trying to catch up on the thread from the beginning of this one. Goodness you ladies are talented!
I believe that DH has resigned himself that I am going to go forward with this and while it is not totally in the budget right now, I have some time to do more research and save my pennies.
In the meantime I thought I would share a few pictures of my work just for a little more eye candy on this thread.
This is a table topper a friend and I redrafted from an antique block we saw at a quilt show.
Lastly
This is a baby quilt a friend and I designed around the fabric (the cream and the brown border). Her favorite color is brown and she was expecting a girl.
Happy sewing everyone!
Great Quilts!
I lost the other lot. I went to baseball and got distracted with the kids and forgot to bid higher before it ended.
Love that fabric. Greta job, I haven't attempted shorts yet. Should put that on my list.
great job on the quilts ! I don't know if I could do that, I'm having too much fun sewing little girl clothes right now.
Bog looks awesome ! I would love to make one of those. Is the embroidery all thread ? I can't imagine how much time that takes. Do you do it on another piece of fabric and then divide it onto your bag like that ?
So, since I fixed my Mother's machine I have been busy.
My Tiana dress
My circus dress, I saw this fabric and knew I had to do something completely crazy and out there with it for a dress. I got this pattern at a clearance center with the big bow and poufy sleeves.
front
back
I like the bow better in the back than in the front where the pattern says to put it.
Love my Planter's Peanuts fabric from my Aunt.
On to the next pattern, it had a shirt, pants, dress, and kerchief.... I went with Tangled for my theme.
These are all beautiful!
Oh man I was in the middle of a design when my machine screen just decided to freeze up! This is the same machine that I just spend $75 on replacing the motor. I'm afraid this decade old machine may not be doing too well in the computer board department. The service guy that fixed it in Jan said he'd look at it....but he didn't sound too hopeful of finding the cause....It does of course come when we aren't looking at spending a lot of extra money right now, my car also just decided to shut off yesterday in the 95 degree heat, so that's either going to be an expensive fix or a new (to me) car. GRRRR.
So today after DS kindergarten interview we are going to go to walmart and buy a gift since I can't finish my project.
Hopefully the car will make it.
On the up side my gender u/s is June 5th!
Can't wait to hear what you are having!!
My taggie blankets. grabbed both for the pic so you could see the front and back at the same time.
love these. So cute!
Wow! Everyone's been busy and looks great! I just finished up my big give items. A few weeks ago I posted a Star Wars car organizer, I finally finished the other. My youngest requested Lightning McQueen. I did change up one thing after I put them in the car. I initially used cord elastic on the top, I thought it would be pretty easy to be able to just slip it over the headrest. I didn't think it all the way through and once toys started getting put into the pockets the elastic started stretching quite a bit so I replaced the elastic with cording.
I was hoping to get more sewing done this week but that didn't happen. My soon to be sister in law called to see if I could be a bridesmaid in the wedding. I was initially planning on making my dress for the wedding so I guess that freed up some time but the wedding is next month and she only started planning the bridesmaid dresses this week. She picked a style and color out so I went to figure out what size and they said the color she chose it would be 12 weeks for the order to come in obviously that's not going to work. So she went to a different place and of course because it's last minute it's going to cost all of us an additional $45 to put a super rush on the order to get it on time. So now I have to go to another store tomorrow to get this darn dress ordered and hope it comes in time. This dress was so not in the budget but it's my brother's wedding so I'll go with it. No wonder why I keep getting this feeling the wedding is going to be alot of drama.
But anyway enough of the drama for now so here's the organizer all complete and then in the car along with the other one.
These are great!
I've been wanting to make re-useable rain ponchos. Does anyone know where I have find/ buy a pattern for this?
Thanks in advance!
Looking forward to see if anyone answers... Tho I do have to say I saw some really cute ones at Target the other day for 5 bucks.
Oh soooooooo cute!!!!!!!!!! Thank you sooooooooo much! Absolutely perfect Beth (as usual!!). You were very kind to help out with this
I thought SEU was supposed to be a pain. But all I'd like is something to merge designs. And free is good! I honestly don't think I'd use it often. It would have been nice for Amy's shirts though b/c with the names it all required two hoopings and it would have been much faster and easier to do it all in one. Maybe you should give us a workshop on using SEU at Marianne's house!
So glad you like them! Don't hesitate to ask again.
The pain about SEU is that it is SLOOOOOW. I primarily use my netbook and it's really! slow on here. I put it on my husband's laptop and it's a lot faster. I'm actually debating on getting a tower computer just for my embroidery stuff. I'll be glad to give a tutorial at Marianne's. He takes his laptop when he travels tho, and right now he's over in Cali for 2 weeks.
Can I ask how to make the flip flops? I want to try this, but am clueless wher to start.
Yes ma'am. I was inspired by someone else on the boards. I can't remember who, but theirs were awesome! Here's the webpage tutorial. Usually I put felt clippies in the middle but decided these looked cute without them.
http://ribbonspikes.wordpress.com/category/2-pinwheel-ribbon-spike-hair-bow-tutorial/
About the pillowcase dresses: I've made a couple. If I can sew them anyone can! I did buy a commercial pattern from Simplicity for 99cents when they were on sale. It gives you a couple versions and a cute pillowcase top/pant set.
Ack! I think I missed some. Love all the dresses I've seen. LOVED the Baby shower photos. We're about to do one for my cousin. She's doing the mustache/little man theme. So I'm going to make the cupcake toppers/bottle water holders/ and I think I'm going to embroider a couple of onsies with the mustache design.
I forgot to grab Sandi's pics of her boys... love the outfits!
Sorry if I missed anyone. I need to stay home so I can stay caught up.. haha.. We're going back to see Caroline this weekend. No internet up there except some spots on my phone so I get so behind. :/