Sewing Much

I have been wanting to make something for awhile now, but there has been no drive to do so. I love being able to create something out of just fabric, thread, and an idea! However, I am not very skilled, like sewing in a straight line is not one of my perfected concepts, yet! But I still want to try and learn. So I have pinned oh about 80 different lovelies on my board... I don't have extra cash so some of those ideas will have to wait, but this shirt looked easy enough for me to muster through. I had fabric that I could part with if it was a fail. So this is what I whipped up today! HERE is the tutorial. 

And here is Ashlyn new little shirt! I am pretty happy with the outcome. What do you think???

 Ashlyn's opinion is she let me take these few pictures and then wanted it OFF. However that is how she is. I found here the other day with her Valentine dress I made her, that she wanted nothing to do with, on! One day she will come out of her room wearing this, I just know it!!!

 Yeah that's right I got ATTITUDE!!!

 Oh finally a smile!

And as you can see, I didn't wash and press the fabric before I started, WHO HAS TIME FOR THAT!!!

I wanted to make my cousin's baby a gift who was born in December. My cousin and I are the same age, I just started marriage and kids earlier and so she just had her first baby, Violet. WHAT A CUTIE!!! I knew that they would be in FL for the wedding and so I wanted to take it with me and personally give them the gift. I made a little sweater-a-saurous like I made Ashlyn. I think it turned out great. I love the black thread contrasting with the pink scales. Of course after I was done I think I should have gone a dark pink than the light pink! Oh well, I hope they love it. I can't wait until little Violet is able to wear it. I got a 12 month sweater so she can be romping around like a dinosaur in it! The round part of the hood and when the hood and back of the sweater come together were such a struggle. The original seem there was a lot bigger than the one on Ashlyn's sweater, but I got through it and only had to take out stitches a few times ;)

Also I made the scales all the same size on this sweater which I also LOVED!!!!

All About the Assets

It's all about the assets!!! And by that I mean, my um well you know bum! :) A few weeks ago I was invited to a boutique from my friend from church and I came across some jeans that I sore I would NEVER wear, and found love. There are decked in bling and I loved em! However, I am a little person, okay not really but close! I bet I am just over five feet tall, and I never find jeans or any pants for that matter that fit me. I am constantly walking on the bottoms and they rip and tear at the hem because of this. Then I cut off the remaining ends and have a sheered pant bottom. Really attractive! So these new pants I wanted to have altered, I mean I spent $50 (OUCH!) so I got a number of a gal who would do it for $12. Pretty reasonable I thought so I gave her a call and there was no answer, so I left a message. The lady never called me back, don't you HATE that!!! So while on pinterest I found a pin where you can hem your own pants and keep the original seam. I was all over that, and today I was FINALLY brave enough to try it out on my new pants. Why didn't I practice on another pair first? Because all the other thread was that famous denim orangy/yellowish (<--yes both words in the sewing world) color. My thread in my new pants was a blueish white and since I had white and the new stitch would not show I went for it on my new pair of pants. I am pretty pleased with the results.

Here is the blog where the pin came from.

Here are the before pictures, courteous of Teagan.

Back look.

The bottom, LOT'S of extra fabric.

Front view of the pants, bet you couldn't tell huh?

After I hemmed the jeans. Still lots of fabric, but so much better!!!

Full view.

Thanks Teagan for helping me with the photos. Glad I was able to hem these jeans up!

Valentine Fashions

On Sunday while at church I noticed a little girl with a little sack dress on that was Valentine print. I thought to myself, self you have some cute print, why not make one up for Ashlyn! So I searched and found a tutorial on how to make up the dress. It was pretty easy and I loved how the dress turned out! Go here for the dress. After I was done, I realized why heck my boys need to look extra sweet for their Valentine's so I wanted to make ties for them with the fabric print too. I knew that one of my fav blogs had done a post about them. I did some searching and found a easy pessy bow tie tutorial. Now Rayle has been wanting a bow tie for awhile, and so it's was prefect. I was going to make just one for Rayle, and attempt a normal tie for Teagan, but when they got home from school Teagan decided he wanted one too. Okay that's cool, and DANG I can't wait for Sunday for them to wear their get-ups. I am pretty pleased with myself! This week I have done Ashlyn's sweatshirt, and now the dress and ties. AND IT'S ONLY TUESDAY!!!!! What more lays ahead of me???? Not sure if the boys will wear their ties to school, but if they want to, I will let them on the 14th!

Ashlyn's dress.

I got this ribbon today before I had just white but I wanted it to POP a little!

Tying a bow tie is HARD!!!!! I watched like 5 different You-tube videos on how to do it.

Here is the bow tie not tied.

Sist-a-sauras

Last month a blog that I read had this wonderful idea here for a sweatshirt. Thinking my boys were a little old for the idea I thought of making one for Ashlyn. I found a cute hooded sweatshirt at Target on clearance and knew it would perfect. I made mine a little different; I made the scales grow larger as they go down the back, also I used more than one color for the scales. I am pretty pleased, but sadly Ashlyn is not interested! :( My boys both want one, of course in different color scheme though!

Got Ashlyn to finally be willing to pose with the sweatshirt on.