Key Chain Project

I have completed another sewing project..... finally!!

In ones life, there comes a point where you start to use your keys more often then when you are younger. No I have not gotten a car or even my license YET..... but I have been loosing my keys, and have needed to make something to make it easier to find. So with the materials above.....

I made a key chain holder, neat huh?

It was quite the simple project ( I didn't even use a pattern) But it will make a big difference when I go to look for my keys in my black hole of a purse, or around the house! :) With this month soon to be ending.... I hope to do some more sewing projects before the Sewing Month of September ends.
Until next time, ~RebeccA.

KnitPicks Yarn Sale!!

So about two weeks ago, I got an email from KnitPicks saying they were having a warehouse sale. So see that I had to work that day, at 10:45 and it opened at 10am I was really pushing it for trying to go.... But I went any ways. When I got there I had already wished that I had arrived about a half an hour before I did. When I got to the door to go in it was already 10:20... meaning to make it to work on time I had to leave in about 10 min. Well that didn't work. There were boxes and boxes of yarn, and fabric (from there sister shop Connecting Treads) When I looked at the time it was 10:30... panicking I grabbed, and looked and found this....

As soon as I walked in and looked around I had wished I had a plan for projects and yarn to look for, but seeing that I didn't I looked for what I thought I could use.


This is a feather weight yarn, great for lace... never used it before and thought it was a great time to try.

 

This is called Crayon yarn, I made a scarf out of this for some friends and thought it would be nice to make another one!!



This is great sock yarn!!

 

And this is called Comfy Sport yarn... not so sure what I am going to do with this but it is so SOFT!!



There great deal was $12.90 per lb. for yarn and $2.80 for fabric!! Great deals!! When I stepped into line to get it weighted and pay.... it was 10:45...the time I had to be at work. So I called work to let them know that I would be late. I finally got out the door around 10:50 and headed to work. Though I was late, it was worth the trip to get some great deals. And hopefully next year (if they do it again... really hoping so) I will be able to go with a list and some more time!! :) You will have to wait and see what I use all this for... ~RebeccA.

Mending

Mending is one of those things that seem to be put to the side of your list of projects to do. But with this sewing month thing, I thought it would be good to get my few items back into use. I had a broken zipper and a button and hook to fix.



Seam ripping is always fun!!



There it is, that awful invisible zipper gone...



And my new, working zipper in!!



Here another skirt had to much use and the button and eye were coming off

 

There they are, back on and ready to be used!!

 There you have it, what takes no more then a half an hour, and you have your things as good as new!! Why didn't I do this sooner, I don't know, but I am sure glad to cross that one off the list!! :) ~RebeccA.

Felted Slippers

I am sure you are wondering why I am knitting when this is to be sewing month. Well I really didn't knit these this month but about.... umm two months ago. They have been sitting that long waited to felted. These were originally for me, but were pushed off into the "waiting to be finished" projects. Until I realized that my sisters birthday was coming up, and I knew that she wanted a pair, for I made my mom some and she was quite jealous :)

 So I quickly felted them, which is a little harder when you are making them smaller than your own feet.

 And I put this cute button on it!! It just makes it a bit cheery, and will help when the long, cold, rainy days come this winter!! :)

And there you have it. Though she will not need these for a few more months, they will be there waiting to be used when needed!!
Now back to sewing!! ~RebeccA.

P.S. I will eventually make myself a pair.... some day :)

Card Holder

So far this sewing thing has not worked out so well..... until now!! Today, determined to make something to put on this blog for the sewing month, I found this pattern for Business Card Holder. And since about two months ago, I bought some business cards for my Etsy Store, and I have not even carried them around with me. I thought this would be a quick, easy and very little fabric kind of project.

So now I am ready to carry those cards around with me, ready to be used when I meet people that are interested in the things I do. This very simple project, will help keep them protected from the black hole of a purse that seems to ruin any paper that ever enters in!! :)

I hope y'all are having a good week, and I hope you have a great weekend!! ~Rebecca

September Sewing

Today marks the first day of the National Sewing Month. So Hannah and I have decided to challenge our selfs and try to sew something at least once every week this month.  

So stay tuned for our sewing projects, as we challenge ourselves to sew this month.... and have more post than usual!! :)