That's hilarious. I don't think mine understand about twins yet. It's just so normal for them since nearly all their playmates are twins they just sort of think all kids come in pairs... so far they haven't tried to un-twin themselves, but I am sure that's not too far off!
Mr. Smee is feeling better today, amazing what 24 hours of antibiotics and some advil can do for the mood... So I got them to pose, together even!
Mr. Smee's shirt I made with some super cheap knit fabric I got from fabric.com and it is really rough, but hey, he's a pirate. The shorts and sandals we had, the hat, also cheap knit sewn in a cone and attached a pompom from the craft box. The glasses are from the $1 store, they were those 3x reading magnifier glasses, I popped out the lenses as not to blind my poor child. His outfit total cost was about $7. If it is cool the eve of
MNSSHP I will put a long sleeve shirt and navy pants on him, so he's not shivering while Hook is cozy.
Oh gosh! They are so darn cute together! I LOVE the style of Smee's shirt! In fact, I think it looks even more authentic being a little "off", especially with the collar! GREAT GREAT GREAT JOB!!!
So my new Hobby Lobby opened today. It is a huge store but I thought there would be more fabric. But they did have some pretty fabric though. I hope they run more smoothly though. The poor girl at the table was young and new and having a hard time cutting the fabric. Plus they have to write everything done.
I love how Joanne's just scans everything. But overall I am glad they are so close
I agree with everyone else that it's so backwards that they still write everything up. And it's worse than Joann's about being hit-or-miss on whether or not they'll even know anything about sewing.
BUT they do have some really pretty/unique fabrics so I can never swear them off entirely.
I love Halloween! I've made a pact with myself to try really hard to make DD's costume every year as long as it's feasible. This year she wants to be a pink cat and I have the faux fur already. I think I'll try to just find a vest pattern/make one up and add a hood with ears. No zippered jumpsuits over here (I wouldn't want to attempt it)!
What a great thing to commit to! I can't wait to see the kitty cat you come up with this year.
Thank you all for the compliments on my macaw. This costume was soooo much easier to do than the Sgt Pepper ones I did last year. And ds wants to be a cowboy so that will be easy, though he was a cowboy at age 4 and hated it so I'm trying to get him to do something else. I really want him to be a snake and it would fit with the
Amazon theme, but sadly he's not buying it.
I winged it
in drawing my own feathers -- I needed mine more elongated like a real macaw. I also overlapped my feathers off the edge of my base fabric because I liked that look too -- but in hindsight I should have made my base fabric a little smaller as my wings ended up then being a bit too big. I also had to add elastic straps to help hold them because they are heavy. You could use cotton which would be lighter in weight and it would naturally fray like bird feather edges, but I liked the more polished look so I ended up using the felt (and it was on sale!).
For the feet I used plastic canvas and covered them in felt. I sewed them on old sock cuffs b/c I did them while dd was sleeping and wanted to make sure they were OK -- I am going to attach them to her leggings though for Halloween. And the leggings are a pair of red that I cut (they were a 4T so way too short but dd is thin so still fits in them fine) and I attached black bottoms from another pair that she got holes in.
I think I am also going to add more feathers to the headband on streamers down the back of her hair -- I think that will look prettier than coloring her hair.
They don't do grades at our school. The only things that get marked are spelling quizzes and they just get the number correct -- no letter grades.
Good luck getting the birthday outfit finished. Faces are definitely harder to hand applique but you do really well with all your appliques that I think you'll do fine. And Happy Birthday to your dd!
I am still in super AWE of the Macaw costume. I know you keep claiming it "wasn't that hard" but it's just so impressive looking.
I chickened out on Mulan, at least for today. Well, that and I totally just ran out of time. I sewed the skirt up this morning before we left for church and just let her wear the shirt plain. I still want to add Mulan (DD was so happy when she heard that's who's supposed to be on the shirt), but after thinking about it more, I think I'm going to try appliqueing it on felt, that way if I ruin the applique, I don't ruin the shirt totally. And thank you for the birthday wishes. She had a GREAT day!
First of all, I just sort of started commenting on this thread without really introducing myself. I've been lurking for some time thanks to D. I read her pre-trip report and when she mentioned this thread, I came over and got hooked! I have been sewing since I was a child, but it has been sporadic since my kids are grown. Now I have grandchildren to sew for and I'm back to it and loving it.
What I really love about your thread is how helpful everyone is and how much encouragement and advice is given, whether it's sewing or personal. This thread exudes friendliness, thoughtfulness and just enough orneriness to be simply wonderful. Thanks for letting me hang out!
Welcome! Hope you stick around and post any goodies you make!
My local quilt shop writes it down too. But the ladies who work there are all long-time quilters who retired from other careers and work there for fun (and let's be honest, free fabrics to make "sample" projects) so I feel like they have an idea what they're selling. At hobby lobby who knows. I don't even feel like I could ask a question about what such-n-such I need.
I printed a countdown chain for the boys. Maybe I'll actually assemble it before we go. It's on my epic to-do list. And somehow I totally spaced on the fact we are taking another mini vacation before Disney, going away all weekend to in-laws place in Wisconsin. Tempted to just send my husband with the kids and have myself a real vacation at home in the quiet!
HA HA HA about sending your DH with the boys and taking a "real vacation"! I always tease my DH that I don't get vacation. I just work at a different location! HA!
I never understood why Hobby Lobby does everything by hand. I am constantly checking their math and it is never right and frequently in my favor. I don't even know how they manage inventory control that way. There is no way in stores that large they know how much to order and when.
I finished up the littlest one's Minnie Dress last night. She will wear it for CM and maybe another day at the park. It is also the littlest ones halloween costume (I am making one for the 6 year old too but I haven't finished it yet and she won't be wearing it for Halloween). I am in love with this dress. I think it is my favorite of everything I've made so far. I can see me using this pattern a lot in the future.
Alice my 2 year old actually let me take her picture modeling her new dress after I sewed the buttons on it. I almost thought I destroyed the dress as I ripped through the button hole when I opened it up. I was able to fix it (as long as you don't look too close at the button hole).
I LOVE this dress! It is so cute! You must share the name of the pattern (pretty please!). I think she looks positively adorable in it! WONDERFUL JOB!
I have been wanting to make a bag out of my dh's stained uniform shirt for a while. Last night I finally did it!
I ran out of navy thread so I haven't been able to top stitch it yet. Hopefully I will get that done this week.
This is great! What about doing the top stitching in RED so it matches the red lining? would add a nice contrasting pop to the rest of the bag and tie it all in together.
Here is what I worked on this week. It is a dress made out of various scraps that I've wanted to use up. I am quite happy with how it turned out. I used two different methods to make the pointed hem. The top skirt I cut the rectangles, brought the edges together and sewed them to make the points. On the underskirt, I used the rolled hem on the serger because I wanted the little pop of red color on the bottom.
Then I used the halter style Simply Sweet but I shirred the back. I made the straps, which are supposed to tie at the neck, extra long. I put buttonholes in the back after I did the shirring. Then I crisscrossed the straps and put them through the buttonholes. I love how the back turned out!
I was so happy that I used up a whole bunch of fabric pieces I had left from other projects!
Oh Diane, this turned out LOVELY. The halter neckstraps through buttonholes in a shirred back has quickly become one of my favorite styles too. I love that it allows the dress to really grow with the child. I think all the fabrics you used pair wonderfully together and GO YOU for using up all those scraps in your stash!
See my above post to Andrea for why Mulan isn't on the shirt (yet)
DD's birthday outfit. Fabrics and shirt from
Walmart (top is in the little girls section and has a really cute bow on it).
Close up so you can see the fabrics better. It was love at first sight when I saw these and as luck would have it, DD's favorite color is purple!
Sunshine
