Wow!! really great job for just your second project.As a long-time lurker on this thread, I finally have something to show.
I will preface this by saying that the only thing I had made before
this skirt is a pillow in Home-Ec. So, I'm pretty pleased. Thank you
all for the wonderful inspiration and encouragement that each of
you show.
I bought the Cinderella shirt at K-mart in case anyone is interested.
Lori
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Ohhh... NOW you've hit upon MY obsession. ( which at the moment is being shared with sewing, and my cake decorating business has taken a back seat.You know...there are some of those 13x15 padded envies that fit 12x12 pages! hahaha I know for a fact since I use to sell premade and custom scrapbook pages. The package store LOVED me. hahah
I love that! Soo cute. I have yet to get a cricut because well, I can't balance my sewing and scrappy habit either. I used to make cards for everything now I am lazy and buy the dang things. I have a whole craft room sitting with LOADS of supplies for paper crafts and knitting. oh and fabric too but that is getting used right now. hehe
That is adorable! I really like this one!Ok - here it is - DD's Easter/Spring dress. I still need to do the buttons/buttonholes and hem but am waiting on DD to come home from school.
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I am sorry you guys have to go through this right now, i hope it all turns out ok for you.Hi Guys. I am sorry for the drive-by, but things here are really stressful. DH works for Bear Stearns, and we still don't know whether he's going to have a job or not after the takeover. AND all of our retirement was in Bear (It's practically impossible if you work on Wall street for your stock holdings NOT to be in your company, since they give you stock as a bonus, then make it next to impossible to sell it while you still work for the company)
As a long-time lurker on this thread, I finally have something to show.
I will preface this by saying that the only thing I had made before
this skirt is a pillow in Home-Ec. So, I'm pretty pleased. Thank you
all for the wonderful inspiration and encouragement that each of
you show.
I bought the Cinderella shirt at K-mart in case anyone is interested.
Lori
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Ohhh... NOW you've hit upon MY obsession. ( which at the moment is being shared with sewing, and my cake decorating business has taken a back seat.)
I'll just share the last card I made for my dad's b-day tomorrow:
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I have tons more, I make them to sell on a WAHM site, plus I make all my kids invitations and birth announcements and whatnot.
As a long-time lurker on this thread, I finally have something to show.
I will preface this by saying that the only thing I had made before
this skirt is a pillow in Home-Ec. So, I'm pretty pleased. Thank you
all for the wonderful inspiration and encouragement that each of
you show.
I bought the Cinderella shirt at K-mart in case anyone is interested.
Lori
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Okay, here's a bigger pic of my Mulan applique (work in progress). In case you didn't see my first post, I was reprimanded for posting tiny pictures.I had already changed the size on photobucket, so when I enlarged the pic it looks a little blurry, but at least you can see it better.
I still have lots of work to do on this (satin-stitching, hair decorations, parasol handle and splines, facial features, etc.) but you can still get the basic idea. This will eventually be placed on the front of a tank top for a fellow dis'ers DD to wear with a red pettiskirt.
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I think this skirt is great and you did an amazing job. Can I have a closeup of that shirt? It looks cute tooAs a long-time lurker on this thread, I finally have something to show.
I will preface this by saying that the only thing I had made before
this skirt is a pillow in Home-Ec. So, I'm pretty pleased. Thank you
all for the wonderful inspiration and encouragement that each of
you show.
I bought the Cinderella shirt at K-mart in case anyone is interested.
Lori
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How cute! I was determined that I did not need a Cricut, afterall I have a Sizzix and love the Girls Are Weird die cut font. Well, while home on maternity leave I caught an informercial for the Cricut and now I really want one. I spent the rest of the day day-dreaming of all the great projects I could "whip up" with the machine. Of course the next question is the basic or the newer one?
I was engaged to my "best boy" by the time I was two. (He called me his "best girl"...)Our mom's were best friends and we were born 6 months apart! We were deeply in love...he told his parents when we were four that he and I would be living in their home so mom and dad would have to move down the street.
We held hands everywhere we went, he opened car doors for me, helped me buckle my car seat and tied my shoes for me! He got VERY upset one day when he saw my sister HIT me! He told his mother to talk to my mother about it before he had to "step in"...we were about five then.
Alas...we hit 7 and everything changed. We were on the teeter totter at my house and he broke it to me that we couldn't get married. He said he couldn't marry me b/c he was going to be Magnum PI...
*sniffle*
I cried my heart out. Went in and told my sister and his older brother. They made him say he'd marry me...and he did. Reluctantly!
I would just like to point out that even though he and I did not ever marry, he DID name his first daughter for me! He DID! We have the same middle name...even though his wife doesn't know where he got it, I sure do!
The boy carries a flame!
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You know...there are some of those 13x15 padded envies that fit 12x12 pages! hahaha I know for a fact since I use to sell premade and custom scrapbook pages. The package store LOVED me. hahah
I love that! Soo cute. I have yet to get a cricut because well, I can't balance my sewing and scrappy habit either. I used to make cards for everything now I am lazy and buy the dang things. I have a whole craft room sitting with LOADS of supplies for paper crafts and knitting. oh and fabric too but that is getting used right now. hehe
Oh how cute is that!
Georgia has one of these boys...
They are totally alike its crazy. They are both High Functioning Autistic, they both have the same obsessions Elvis, and Disneyland! They have the same color hair same color eyes, same height, They have the same spinning speed. (hahaha I Know sounds funny, but when they spin on the black top or around the poles they do it at the exact same time and the exact same speed)
Anyway, Dean's mom told me today, that yesterday Dean's aide was watching the two of them play at recess and they were holding hands skipping. When she asked how they were doing Georgia replied Dean was her Prince and they were going to take their Elvis dolls (yes, they even have the same Elvis dolls) to Disneyland and ride on the rides off into the sunset. Bwahahahaha isn't that just the sweetest thing?!
Dean's mom and I joke about how we are going to have Spectrum grandbabies and we should just start having family trips to Disney together now.
As a long-time lurker on this thread, I finally have something to show.
I will preface this by saying that the only thing I had made before
this skirt is a pillow in Home-Ec. So, I'm pretty pleased. Thank you
all for the wonderful inspiration and encouragement that each of
you show.
I bought the Cinderella shirt at K-mart in case anyone is interested.
Lori
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Ohhh... NOW you've hit upon MY obsession. ( which at the moment is being shared with sewing, and my cake decorating business has taken a back seat.)
I'll just share the last card I made for my dad's b-day tomorrow:
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I have tons more, I make them to sell on a WAHM site, plus I make all my kids invitations and birth announcements and whatnot.
Ok my sewing buddies. I have a very newbie question here. I belong to a Creative Sew Club where I bought my machine from (the classes are free because I bought the machine there but of course you pay for your supplies) anyway, we are making a quilt organizer. First of all they said in the "getting to know your machine" classes that these projects were good for beginners (not me I know nothing). I had some help yesterday reading the pattern,: we have some stuff to do before tonight for the class so last night I cut all my pieces out, fabric, shirt tailor, fleece. I had a problem last night ironing on my shirt tailor but called today to find out that you don't have to use a damp cloth (I should have come here last night) so I did that, then I sprayed adhered my fleece. Now I have to do a cross hatching decorative stitching to the top piece and then I have to cut out those two pieces for tonight from the pattern which kind of looks like a U. I hope I not losing anybody here. This is my question: how do you cut out from the pattern piece (it's paper). Do you pin it on the fabric and cut with scissors? The edges where there is a straight edge is not exactly straight, but that does not bother me because we are sewing on a binder tonight so that will be fixed. My problem is the actual cutting I'm
. Please help. This is my FIRST project and I will post a picture when it's done tonight but I'm so scared I'll screw it up and the class is tonight and I have no time to redo it so I want your opinion on how you cut the pattern out using the template. Thank you so much. Don't laugh at this post.
Laura
What pattern numbe3r is this?? It looks great I'd like to try that!
I wish I was there to help, I would run right over to help you!
Do you pin it on the fabric and cut with scissors? - yes
you can do it. the first project you do is the ahrdest - don't give up you can do it. just remember measure twice cut once.
Lori
Hi ladies and gents....I would like to join,I just am about to book our first WDW trip and NEED to make a few cute things for the kids to wear, maybe a few blakies for them to take in the car. I'm not great with my machine I do a lot of hand quiling and have made some "baby leggs" on the machine also have made some cloth diapers and womens menstral items by machine. Other than that I'm not sure about clothing...eek! I love all the things you all have made, great pics!
Here you go. Not the best picture. The little detail dots
are like shiny, plasticy, little nub things. Not sure how
to describe them. I can take another picture tonight if you
want. Just let me know.
Lori
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Okay, here's a bigger pic of my Mulan applique (work in progress). In case you didn't see my first post, I was reprimanded for posting tiny pictures.I had already changed the size on photobucket, so when I enlarged the pic it looks a little blurry, but at least you can see it better.
I still have lots of work to do on this (satin-stitching, hair decorations, parasol handle and splines, facial features, etc.) but you can still get the basic idea. This will eventually be placed on the front of a tank top for a fellow dis'ers DD to wear with a red pettiskirt.
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Ok my sewing buddies. I have a very newbie question here. I belong to a Creative Sew Club where I bought my machine from (the classes are free because I bought the machine there but of course you pay for your supplies) anyway, we are making a quilt organizer. First of all they said in the "getting to know your machine" classes that these projects were good for beginners (not me I know nothing). I had some help yesterday reading the pattern,: we have some stuff to do before tonight for the class so last night I cut all my pieces out, fabric, shirt tailor, fleece. I had a problem last night ironing on my shirt tailor but called today to find out that you don't have to use a damp cloth (I should have come here last night) so I did that, then I sprayed adhered my fleece. Now I have to do a cross hatching decorative stitching to the top piece and then I have to cut out those two pieces for tonight from the pattern which kind of looks like a U. I hope I not losing anybody here. This is my question: how do you cut out from the pattern piece (it's paper). Do you pin it on the fabric and cut with scissors? The edges where there is a straight edge is not exactly straight, but that does not bother me because we are sewing on a binder tonight so that will be fixed. My problem is the actual cutting I'm
. Please help. This is my FIRST project and I will post a picture when it's done tonight but I'm so scared I'll screw it up and the class is tonight and I have no time to redo it so I want your opinion on how you cut the pattern out using the template. Thank you so much. Don't laugh at this post.
Laura