Sew Grateful

I just have to say Blogging is more work than I know how to handle! I am trying to get in a routine of getting this done but I am just way behind!

I have been working on ALOT of projects lately and I am LOVING it!

My first project since I have gotten done with the Drill Team was Halloween Costumes for the kids! First I made a Cute dress fro my Daughter. The cloth was Hello Kitty and I used a Thick orange ribbon to line the bottom! Out of the left over cloth I made her a little purse and used the ribbon as the handle. She loved it!


After that I thought I was going to get off easy with Halloween costumes and boy was I wrong. Dylan saw the pattern for and Alien costume...and all I have to say is they turned out pretty well considering I did not even think I would be able to make them! I do not have a great picture of them both together, so here is the best one I got. I can replace it once I get some better ones from my sister-in-law...but you get the idea. They did not have the head pieces on!


After that I had an old friend of mine ask me if I could recover some cushions on a little couch of hers...this is something I have never done before so I said Sure...why not? I tore the cushions apart to make the pattern and sure enough, we now have cushions. I learned a lot about order of sewing...in other words, which pieces to sew together first. They turned out good, maybe not as perfect as I would have liked them but I think I am just being too hard on myself. No one else can really see what I see! HeHe!


So now I am starting work on 2 outfits for 2 girls and we will see those later...they are Christmas presents and I do not want to spoil any surprise in case they look at my blog!

See ya next time!
Angie

Posted by That Guy at 10:58 AM 1 comments    

Labels: costumes, cushions, dresses, halloween, hello kitty

I have truly slipped up this summer keeping up with this blog. For good reason, I have been "sew" busy with orders and such that I have not had much time getting on to blog!

Well, lets get down to what I have been doing! First is the Drill team I coach...our uniform order got messed up so we chose to make some...which of course left me to make them. I also had another lady help with half the work because it was too much for me to handle!


We decided to do a simple circle skirt, easy enough right? NO...then we decided we wanted to use Lame! Can I just say Lame has to be the most difficult material to work with in my experience! The Blue Lame was actually ok, but the Silver was a nightmare. It snags horribly! So my battle was that if I interfaced it, it would either be too stiff or too heavy. If I did not then of course we were going to have a snagged mess. BTW, these skirts are two-sided and reversible! SO...What I realized I was going to have to do, is outline the skirts with 1/2 inch strips of interfacing. I used a fusible interfacing which of course I had to iron on through a cloth because lame will melt with any contact with an iron. But after all was said and done...They are beautiful!

Posted by That Guy at 6:52 PM 0 comments    

We went shopping this weekend and got the kids some new shoes. Little did I know that the shoes I got for my daughter would be such an inspiration!

We found the cutest pair of Vans Cherry slip-ons. I knew she really did not have much to go with them since she does not wear alot of black or white. So I went to work on a new outfit.

The cherry material was actually a part of a dress I already had that she has grown out of. So I cut off the bottom section and luckily it fit to the pattern of the new shirt. So we have recycled our old clothes to make new!

As for the pattern, it looked so simple to me until I tried it, and all of a sudden I realized I underestimated it's simplicity.

Posted by That Guy at 11:55 AM 0 comments    

Labels: alternative clothing, Cherry outfit, Cherry Vans, recycle matierial