I've been reading along but lost some of my quotes due to a restart so I tried to go back, hope I didn't miss anyone.
"We" are about half way through the film shoot, so I'm beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel and think I
may survive. I had a number of projects leading up to the film shoot including my often CASEd plunger, tree stump (soon to be often CASEd), dragon puppet (which used up many brain cells that I will never get back), four costumes, meals, gophering, yadda yadda.
I've done a few disboutique drive bys, but haven't really lurked too much, so I'm way behind on "family" news and sewing creations.
I made 16 of them, and like any good sewing project, it took LONGER than I expected.
Gotta run and put lunch on for them.
I'll be back.
Thanks for the update on the film. You and your husband are great parents. Hope everything goes well with the rest of the movie.
So, I forgot to post pictures here - I finished the boys Mickey Decoupage Jeans (I did post about doing so, just not the pic
The jeans look great.
Anyhoo, any hiding ideas would be appreciated.
I saw you got lots of ideas but wanted to let you know that I use a child lock on the door of a closet where I hide the kids gifts. I usually just shove stuff in there as I buy it and then try to figure out what I still need to get about a week before Christmas.
When am I ever going to learn to keep a cash stash the same way I have a fabric stash!?!
We are redecorating the living areas of my house (after 8 years)...I want to redo the drapes in the living room and dining room...and I have my heart set on some dupioni silk. I got an email from Fabric.com. Dupioni silk is on sale!
I can imagine how perfect it would look for Thanksgiving....of course I have no idea when it would get done! LOL!
I'm going to have to start deleting those sale emails as soon as I get them!
Nini
I've just been deleting those fabic.com e-mails lately but sometimes I can't take it and have to check out their sales!
With all the talk about old Singers and ruffles, I thought I'd show off 2 dresses that my mother made for me with her 1942 Singer. Both of them are made of taffeta and net.
The red one has 3 tiers of ruffles and the bodice has chiffon over the taffeta and around the top. I wore it to Valentine's and Christmas dances.
The white one is 36 rows of ruffles all the way down the skirt. If anyone has ever tried to ruffle regular net, they know how difficult it was. The net was sewn to a net overskirt layered over taffeta. The bodice had tiny ruffles over the bust. My mother often made matching cummerbunds for me and my date (along with a bowtie for him) out of satin when he was wearing a tux. I had to wear 7 hoops with it--the short one that I wore under the red dress that had 2 hoops and the long one with 5 hoops! It had 1600 feet of ruffles on it!
She made all my clothes. I wish I had half her sewing ability!
Wow! Those dresses are beautiful and the description of your "little black dress" sounds amazing. You look so pretty in the pictures. You make some wonderful things too so obviously the sewing gene was passed down.
Oooh! It worked, but they're really big! Is that OK?
Here's one more:
Lori in East Podunk (again!)
Love the shirts. you girls look great!
Well, here are my fabric finds -
For appliqué shirts for
MVMCP:
For an outfit for DD and some gift bags...these have glitter on them:
For the boys...I love Maters tongue! Lol:
Now to wash it and start sewing!
Love your fabrics. Can't wait to see what you make.
I'm finally ready to start making some Eye Spy Bags!
I have searched and can't find the tutorial I remember seeing months ago. I think I remember how. The person folded over the fabric for the top so that the vinyl wouldn't stick.
What kind of fabric do you use for the Eye Spy Bags? I was going to use cotton but it seems like none of the tutorials use that.
I just made my first eye spy bag and I used Andrea's directions (thanks Andrea). Have the fabric wrapped around the vinyl really helped with the sewing.
Oops, forgot to catch your name--but when I make my eye shy bags I use a soft fleece. Tip regarding the plastic window--have 3 layers -- bottom layer of tissue paper (I use the tissue paper that the clear plastic is wrapped in); middle layer the window and the top will be your fleece. The plastic tends to stick if you don't have anything under it.
I finished my first Christmas skirt. I made a diaper cover to go with it, but I probably didn't need to do so. Wasn't thinking about granddaughter wearing tights with the skirt.
Christmas Skirt & Diaper Cover by
Sheila Grammy, on Flickr
Now I need to think about what I should do for my next project...DH says my next project should be baking him an apple pie
Sheila
Sheila
The christmas skirt is too cute and I love the diaper cover, she can wear that over the tights if she wants because it is so cute (and it will probably help hold up the tights - they always fall down anyway).
Apple pie does sound good.
Love this. I am waiting for some grinch fabric to go with a T-shirt Miss C has.
I am seriously hoping today is a better day than yesterday with the boy. Yesterday was a bit rough
I have a bunch I want to accomplish and it has been slow going since by the time I put J to bed I am exhausted. Honestly I was in bed at 8:30 last night.
Hope you were able to get some rest and that little J had a better day.
Here is the outfit I finished for Barbara's auction. Size 7/8 and the top will be custom made with initial of choice
Gorgeous!!!!
so here is the dress i made my daughter she refuses to wear because she doesn't want ribbon for sleeves guess it is going to her best friend
That dress came out really nice. Kids are so funny. Maybe you can ask her what she wants for sleeves and see if you can make her happy. She might want a t-shirt under it.
Ok, I have been MIA since my last "live" TR. I got home safely Monday night. I had a very busy week(worked Tuesday to Thursday, plus unpacking, laundry, etc.). I then locked myself up in the sewing room the last couple of days to crank stuff out for the latest BG. They are done now so I can let myself on here again! Unfortunately I think my sewing machine has finally bid this world goodbye. It had a timing problem for a couple of years now and it was limping along. Now the timing issue is so bad that it is skipping stitches even when I am doing straight stitches with one needle. Thankfully my 270D can be used as a sewing machine so I used that machine to finish off my BG project. Sigh, I really can't afford a new machine right now, especailly since I bought a bunch of fabric at Fabricland today. They had a number of Disney prints at 70% off - that's $4.20 per metre of cotton fabric! I stocked up for future BG's and I left the pile in "Santa's workshop" so hopefully the fabric will magically appear at Christmas.
Too bad about your machine. Maybe Santa will be able to save up and send one along after Christmas. Good score on the fabric and I hope you are sewing again soon. Loved all your live reports from DL.
BUT, I did get some sewing done. It took me WAAAAAY too long (around 4 hrs), but I know from experience that I will get faster the more I sew. So here's my very first dolly sized simply sweet:
and on the model:
Oh and I just noticed that you can totally see the movie my kids were watching today! They BEGGED to start watching Christmas movies already. Goofy kids!
I don't think I got a chance to say Welcome yet. You did a great job on the dress. I, too, think the smaller sizes are harder to do. Now when I make a dress for my DD I cut out and sew the doll size as I do the big dress.
Well after months of sewing and planning, we've finally found ourselves back at WDW. But I'm sitting up in bed watching my two youngest snore while my hubby waits in the ER with my precious Tyler... He bumped his head on the night stand and has a gash in his pretty little forehead. I know others have things so much worse than this and I'm feeling guilty for the pitty party I'm throwing myself right now, but I'm heartbroken for my sweet little boy right now. The first place DH took him to said it would be at least a 2 hour wait at 11:30pm, so at midnight DH decided to take him somewhere else. What a way to get this vacation going
Oh no, I hope your DS is doing OK. Not a great way to start a vacation but I'm sure you will have a great time when everyone is ready to go to the parks.
Here are photos of the taggie and burp cloths I made for ds's teacher. She is having a girl (due Thanksgiving). I really wanted to put minky on one side of the taggie, but I also really wanted to do it with fabrics I had on had since I had to buy most of the flannel for the burpies and am really trying hard to budget.
Taggie (both sides -- Nini do not look -- I have no idea how to quilt so just did my best but not everything lines up right):
Rag flannel burpies (one I lined with an extra piece of flannel but I put a light flannelish batting in between the others):
And then I finally finished this outfit for dd. I made the jeans a couple of months ago, which you can't see well in the photos because of the stupid boots dd chose to wear with the outfit -- the jeans have mostly ribbon and trim on them that I got at a yard sale and all the fabrics were scraps.h_ They're very cute -- just bad photos. But I finally took the time to make her the shirt and then when I finished she had the nerve to ask if I could do a Westie for her!
The baby stuff looks great, love the taggie and the burp cloths will be very useful. Your DD's set is really cute. The jeans are so cool! Love those boots too.
Purple-ears: Thanks for all your replies and offer for help..who knows i will probably have to take you up on the question-asking offer lol. I looked at the "you can make this" website and found a few things that i thought would be good to try for my oldest dd. The insa skirt i could def. try for my youngest dd though!! I can't afford a sewing machine, or and embroidery machine right now, but my mom has offered to let me use hers I havent sewn anything since high school lol so i don't know how all this will turn out , but i am def. looking forward to trying anyway!
Lisa
Good luck with all your sewing. I'm sure you will be great. Everyone here is very helpful so be sure to ask if you have any questions.
I haven't had time to get a lot of project done in the last couple of weeks. My mom fell about two weeks ago and broke her shoulder and pelvis. She came home from rehab on Tuesday. Then on Friday my dad had a heart attack. It has been a rough couple of weeks for our family. Luckily my dad was already in the ER for something else when he had the heart attack so they were able to minimize what happened. I have finished the latest BG. I was working on the last thing for it on Friday when I got the phone call about my dad.
So sorry to hear about your Dad and Mom. This can't be easy for you.
as some of you may remember my old camry bit the dust on the 17th of oct.
I am truely blessed to introduce my new babygirl...Charlotte...so named for the itsey bitsey spider that dropped down to greet me as i drove it home yesterday...we gae her a vac and scrub at the carwash and cleaned the inside and put my junk in it so she is now resting quietly in the carport
Your new car looks great with lots of bells and whistles. It will be nice not to have to wait on someone to get you where you need to go. Congrats.
also, love the picture of your DD with her baby bump. How fun.
Hi
The kids had a good time. I will post a few pics in action later after I get my pics touched up....DD had red eye big time in most.
Everything looks great!
Welcome back, can't wait to see pictures.
Been crazy busy, but I have some items I can share!
A thanksgiving outfit for my dd:
A Christmas dress
Another one using the Grace ruffle dress pattern
And the shirts I made for Owen's big give:
Love the shirts for Owen's give. The Turkey applique is perfect for that fabric and the skirt looks great. The Christmas dresses are beautiful.
I usually make quilts for all new babies around here. In fact, if I give something less...well, let's just say they expect a quilt! In fact, one girl that works at the local Starbuck's my hubby frequents (he is a police officer), she heard about my quilts and was asking everyone if they thought I would make her a quilt...hubby had already asked and it was already in the works.
Good luck and I am sure they will be perfect!
Nini
I'm not surprised that everyone wants one of your quilts. I bet the girls at Starbucks will be fighting over who gets to serve your DH his coffee after that quilt arrives!
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...manspeak to me...lol she then called a offered us the car!!!! a 2000 ford escort se...150,000 miles
We r back!
those are all things the camry couldn't do for me anymore...we also discovered the back seats fold down to make the trunk bigger for when i get a good haul at the thrift store/yardsales! 
I havent sewn anything since high school lol so i don't know how all this will turn out , but i am def. looking forward to trying anyway!
Well last night I was picking up sandwiches for DH and BIL and backing out and I backed right into a parked car.
Of course it wasn't any car but a high end Lexus
I had to track the lady down as she was walking to her car. She was actually nice about it but I felt so bad as her whole fender is crushed in.
Today Billy and I are practicing brownie recipes for our brownie bake off at church on Saturday as part of our missions conference. We will also give our report on how and what our team did while we were at Camp Promise. Billy wants to make a german chocolate brownie pinwheel, and Im thinking brownie balls??? Any tips on either of these recipes?????
