Table Runner

Here is the table runner I did last month. It's just straight with a ruffle at each end.

Felt Cases

Jeremy helped me design these and I sewed them together. They were pretty easy to make and very inexpensive. We made zune/ipod cases and a business card holder.

Fall Table Square

I have big Island in my kitchen that needed fall decorations. Here is what I came up with. Mom had a pattern for a fall table runner. I made it square, changed the rows into blocks, added boarders....I guess the only thing I used from the pattern was the appliquéd pieces, but I love how it turned out. I appliquéd leaves and pumpkins with a raw edge and machine quilted it.

I don't know if anyone besides the four of us with the eight crafting hands actually read what we post, but I decided post my first tutorial. I'm starting with an easy one!

For Halloween, I couldn't decide what to have Trevin be. I thought it would be fun if his costume went along with Dillan's costume. Dillan decided to be a vampire, so Trevin is going to be a bat!

I bought a pair of black fleece pants and this cute black and white onsie:


I wanted something he could wear after too. We'll call it being frugal!

To make the wings, get a sheet of paper, scissors and the onsie. Lay the onsie on top of the paper.

Making sure the sleeve is out to the side as shown in the above picture, trace the side of the onsie and the arm. Trace a reverse scallop shape going between the two end points from you previous tracing. (hope this all makes sense. Keep in mind this is the first time I have done this!)

Cut our your shape which will now be the pattern piece. Put this on your fleece. NOTE: I choose fleece because of the fact that it doesn't fray. It is easy to use and thick enough to hold the shape well. Cut out the fleece using the pattern.

Now you have bat wings! Obviously they don't need to be perfect!

Get a needle and thread. Sew the wing onto the seam of you onsie. I started on the side working up towards the arm. I just did a big whipstitch so that I can easily remove it after. It doesn't have to be permanent, just enough to stay on for the few times he will wear it.

Now, repeat for the other side and then you are finished! Easy right?!?


I hope I did okay for my first tutorial! You've got to start somewhere right? I still need to make a cute little batty hat for him. I will post a tutorial for that as well as soon as I can!


-Andrea

Witch Hat

I made a witch hat for a Halloween decoration. I had seen a few different ones at stores/boutiques and made one. It took me a few tries to get it right, but I finally did it :)

Pumpkin Pillow

I saw a pumpkin pillow made out of felt at JoAnn's and liked it, so I decided to make one. I did it more simple then the one I saw, but I like it. What do you think?

Trevin's Quilt

I finished Trevin's quilt a week or so ago but haven't gotten around to posting it until now!

I wanted something different for his quilt so I decided to do raw edge applique instead of normal pieced squares. I wanted to leave spaces between the squares so that I could tie in the dinosaur theme. This is what I (with the help of mom of course!) came up with:



Here is a close up of the stitching. I was going to applique the stars and dinos but didn't want to take all that time cutting things out. I thought it would be fun to just stitch the shapes on.



I was proud of this quilt because I had seen something similar and really wanted to do the raw edge concept but the one I had seen would have been a big pain to do. I (once again with mom's help) came up with this idea so it wasn't so intense for a beginner like me. I hadn't ever designed a quilt really before so I am more proud of this quilt than the others I have done!

Fabric Pumpkins

I like my fabric pumpkins. We changed them a bit from what we saw on u create. Adding a few more darts made them more pumpkin shaped.

Little Girl Dress

Here is something else I made for the upcoming birthday. I hope she likes it!

Pants into Skirt

I made these skirts for part of Lexi's birthday present. I just got pants from Savers and cut the legs of and added fabric that I already had. I think they turned out pretty cute, and they were super easy. I'm excited to see her wear them!

Crazy Outfit

The leggings are from my Ottobre Design magazine. They have pin tucks from the knee down. The shirt is wild colors, but it matched the pants. I love how the bottoms turned out!!

Girls Skirt

I am finally posting a picture of the skirt I made for Lexi! She loves it, and it wasn't too hard to make. I wanted to add something to it, so I made flowers out of scraps of fabric and sewed them on. I'm excited about how it turned out.

Girl Shorts

I'm not very good at sewing clothes, as we all know, but I am determined to get better at it. So I started with an easy project. With a little help from mom I sewed these shorts for Lexi. I made them a few days ago, but I decided to add a little decoration to them. So today I used pink thread and a decorative stitch on my machine and sewed along the bottom of each leg.,then added a bow to the outside of each leg.

Raw Edged Flannel Blanket

I bought some flannel for a blanket for Andrea's baby. I decided to try changing a pattern I had to make it raw edged. I don't think I'll do another this way- it took quite a bit of time. I hope you like it, Andrea.

T-Shirt Dress

She loves it! It ended up being pretty easy to do. Now I need to start on one for big sister.

Mandarine Capri

They are hard to see, but they turned out pretty well. The shirring behind the knees finally worked.

$2 T-shirt

I bought a t-shirt at Wal-mart for $2 and then found a coloring page of a train on the internet. I raided mom's fabric closet (hehe) and found some tan fabric, and I cut the outline of the train out of that fabric and wonder under stuff and appliqued it on to the shirt. It turned out pretty cute and Brecken loves it!