Paige's First Quilt Design

When I am sewing and Paige is around, she always asks if I have any scraps that she can have. I wanted to try to do something constructive with all the little pieces, so I had her design a quilt. She told me where she wanted things and I sewed them on the quilt for her.



I love it that she did not want everything perfect and she did wanted to use all of the little pieces that were around. The one quilt square is left over from a quilt that I made her when she was about six months old. She found the extra square and had been playing with it for about a week before we started this quilt. I think she has a better eye for design than me...

Wee Wonderfuls -The first of many I hope...

I am ready to put my little quilt on the wall. This is the first tied quilt I have done but I am sure to do more. It was a very quick embroidery. I did the quilt in six threads, but this seems a lot. I changed the color of the girls hair, mine all have shads of brown. The girl with the yellow shirt on has the eyes different than the other two, so she looks like she is giggling. I added a bit of pink to each of the girls. The first one has pink stripes in her scarf, the second one has a pink beret, and the third one has a pink heart. The small quilt was not my idea it came from here.

Sugar City Village Frock

The pattern is from a blog Sugar City. I started it before the holidays and then put it away to become a UFO. I got it out about a week ago and did not read through the instructions again. I ended up sewing the sleeves on for the neck gathering and then had to take them off of course, and that was a days sewing wasted. I added a hem facing instead of just turning up the corduroy and I really like the way that it turned out.

Directions for "18 Doll Headband

I hate using hair ties in the dolls hair, so here is a easy head band to make.

Australian Smocking and Embroidery #85 What Went Wrong

These are my photos of "What Went Wrong" with the AS&E #85 Tea for Two Dresses. The doll dress that I made has a ribbon hem that was not part of the original pattern. When I was making the dress the night before the party... It was about 11:00 when I got to the hem on the dress... and there was not enough fabric... first I panicked... and then I remembered making the Lazy Days Skirt and the dress was saved.

Tea for Three Dresses

These are my dresses for the Birthday party at the American Girl doll store. We had a great time. I just love that place. The Dresses are from AS&E #85, but there is a mistake in the directions for the doll pattern, so my doll dress has a ribbon hem.

Grayson's PJ's

This is my first try at making a doll pattern. Paige was just thrilled with the matching PJ's for her doll. Send me an email at smeegool@yahoo.com with doll pattern in the subject and I will send the pdf to you.

Almost Oliver + S pajama pants

This is my first try at major pattern alteration. The Bedtime Story Pajamas have a nice fit which the big pattern companies can't seem to deliver. I wanted to make a similar style for my son but the Oliver + S pattern does not have a big enough size.

Using a Sew easy pattern, I took at least 5 inches off the vertical waist of the pants for these. The leg opening is a bit big on this first pair, so the next pair will have a smaller leg opening.

Oliver + S Pajamas

The top and pants for the PJ's are done. This is my first oliver+s pattern Bedtime Story Pajamas that I have finished, although I purchased a couple of other patterns.

After measuring my daughter carefully I made a size 6, the pattern runs a little small for my taste, so next time I will make it bigger. I had to cut at least three inches from the pant legs for my stubby little one, and about the same amount for the sleeves.

Here is a picture of the top open. The pajamas have a Kimono top which meas that thy tie in two places. I was not sure how my daughter would like the tie on the inside, but the first thing she said was that she could not feel it. I hope it stays that way.



I do not have a serger, so the 1/2 inch seams are finished with a three-step zigzag overcasting.



The pattern has a great tip, to put a bit of ribbon in the back to help when putting them on.

I also put a satin binding around the hem of the pants, instead of just folding them up.

Tea Towels

I just love these trees, they are such a happy tree family. The design is from Nini Makes

Purple Ponies Season Finally

I have been coaching my kids soccer teams and making the banner for a few years now.

I really do try to keep things simple, but it is very difficult when it involves fabric and such. At the end of the season it seems like such a waste to fold up the banner and put it in the garage to be tossed at a latter date. A few years ago I started to "wonder under" the part of the banner with the players name on it, and I would make a iron on of the team picture to put on a pillow case for each player.

This year I just wanted to try something a bit different. I made pillow cases and machine appliqued the name part of the banner on each.

Twilight the Bag

About a week ago I got it in my head to read the Twilight book that will be a movie coming out November 21. My middle school students had been trying to get me to read it for years now but I was just not interested.

I read it and I really liked it. So while I was waiting for the rest of the books to come from amazon, I decided to design and embroider a bag. The embroidery designs, and the bag design are my first!

So here is the result. This is truly my guilty pleasure.

AS&E Babycakes

The marathon bishop dress is over. I just did not plan the start to must be done by well. I ended up doing most of the work in about three or four days. By the time the dress was done I was sick of it!

Gaara Costume

The best Gaara costume ever (OK so I made it, but still it is cool).

Caramel Apples- No sewing needed!

These are my caramel apples that I made! It was my first try ever making candy, They are not perfect but the kids are eating them without complaint! The recipe is from a wonderful blog:

http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/caramel-apples-recipe.html