Christmas Presents: Scarfs of Many Colors

This year for some of my girl friends, I bought 6 in. of all different colors of fleece, in order to cut strips at the end to make them more like scarves! It was a quick but fun project, and very inexpensive too!!

I tried to get prints or colors that went with the gals personality.

All Stacked Up!!

They look so neat in black and white! :)

~Rebecca

Christmas Gifts: Hand Made Fabric Cards

Every year I try to make home made cards. First of all because most of the time I can not find cards that actually say "Merry Christmas", second because they can be really expensive!! and Last because it means allot more to people when you make a card for them.

This year I did something a little different. I used about 8 different fabrics to create different designs for the front of the card.

I did this by cutting the fabric into squares, then cutting a piece of fusible interfacing to the size of the card. Then you place the squares in different designs and iron them to the interfacing. Then I sewed in a zig zag stitch the edges of the squares. then I sewed the piece to the card its self on the out side edge.



It was allot of fun to make these ones!! The one above I just took some scraps and did more of a rap quilt look!!

Here is a just a portion of the cards... I had already by this time sent out the ones that needed to mailed. I made about 30 this year!! And what a fun thing to work on while listening to Christmas music!!

~Rebecca

Patriotic for a little one named Justice

Justice was born almost 2 months ago. When thinking about what I was going to make for his upcoming shower, I couldn't help but do something with this fabric. Isn't it so cool!! And if you know Tammy, you will know she loves antic looking fabric, patriotic colors. When seeing this fabric it made me want to make something for him, which became a new diaper bag for Justice!!

Here is the inside.

 Here is the side view, with pockets to hold various things!

Also I made a changing pad. The front has the cotton covered with a plastic to protect it and makes it way easier to clean. The back side is terry clothe, but instead of buying it at 10 dollars a yard, I bought a bath towel to do the job!!

There you have it a really cute but very boy diaper bag for one of the sweetest little baby boys!! Thanks for reading!~RebeccA.

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.

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

Pink Floral Purse

Every year my Church has an evening were the congregation can share the talents God has given to them with the rest of us. This year is the first time I have ever entered any thing. Like many of my other projects I have planned, this one has been sitting, waiting to be sewn together. So for motivational purposes I decided I was going to finish it for the Evening of The Arts.

Here is the Fabric

And the Pattern

Here is the purse part of the way done.

And here it is all finished!

And there is the inside, with my things all in it!!

It was a very simple project that took me about a day to finish. And with putting it into the event, I had quite a few compliments and a few orders to make them for people, which was a bit surprising!! I just might have to make a few extra to put in my etsy store... we will see.

Well that is all the fun for now, but I will keep you updated on those orders and share them later.

Thanks for reading,

Rebecca

Aqua Drifting Blossom Skirt

With the weather being so gloomy from the rain, I decided to pull out some projects that I have been wanting to start. This is one of them, I ordered this fabric almost 7 months ago, for only $3 a yard! I bought it from a online quilting supplier. I had seen it when it was regular priced and thought it was cutie but not cutie enough to buy. So when it went on sale I couldn't help it :) I bought 2 1/2 yards plus 1/2 yard of the coordinating brown. Any ways here are some pictures from along the way.

Here's the pattern I used. It was different than any that I have

ever used, for it was made so that, (in a way)

you could design the skirt yourself!

Here is my messy desk, while cutting

out the fabric.

Thread!

Here is some of the sewing being done!

I believe this is the yoke of the skirt.

Here it is, almost all done, at this point I had the

zipper and the contrast edging to sew on.

Here you can see the print of the fabric.

And there it is, All done!! Front view

Side view.

So there you have it, a new skirt. I really liked this pattern.

it was easy and didn't use to much fabric.

Until my next project

(which should be next week)

~Rebecca