Toddler Bedding

Got the toddler bedding completely finished and listed a couple days ago. Yay on me! Design challenge for Etsy kids this month is flowers, and I've already decided what I'm going to make, I just need to settle on materials :)



http://www.etsy.com/listing/46044322/jungle-animals-4-piece-toddler-bedding

Rainy Days

Lots of rain around here lately. So I'm wanting to do some sewing. I sewed up the new curtains for my room. I also made a cover for a milk crate I wanted to use for playdough storage:



I also serged the edges of the toddler bedding I'm working on. Unfortunately I can't find the rest of the size elastic I need, which I should've had a lot more of than what I found, so I'll only be able to get the one set done right now. But I'll get more elastic next time I'm in the right place.

Kids have their dress rehersal this afternoon/evening, so I probably won't get much more done on it right now. Hopefully tonight though, there won't be anything worthwhile on tv anyway.

~Sara

Got my first entry for a design challenge done today! Have been working on it all week. And then mother nature was kind enough to turn the shower off and make it sunny today, so was able to get pictures outside! (which is more appealing then indoor pics.. lol)


The top is made with two winnie the pooh cotton prints. The back is a thicker cotton red, green and white plaid. There's a "hidden" pocket on the one side, closes with velcro. It folds in half lengthwise, and there are two ties on one end to keep it rolled. On each corner is a loop that halps pin down the blanket (especially handy on windy days.. like today actually, worked quite well, am rather impressed with myself for thinking of it, lol)



And I made a matching bag to go with it. Same materials as the top of the blanket. The material for the handles is also the lining of the bag. it'll hold a lot of stuff, and the straps are long enough to be carried on the shoulder.

The blanket is 60"x52", the pocket is 21"x8" and not 100% on the bag, the way it's made is hard to measure accurately. but it took just over half a metre of each print to make so thar ya go.

Pretty happy with how they turned out.

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Long time Coming

Have been so busy the past few months, I've had little time to sew, and even less time to blog about it. I started a math 30 class, which is necessary should I follow through with my plans for university... and of course classes for the EA course. And starting the second, and final, practicum for that in Feb (sooner than I thought we would start) but that finished at the end of March, hooray... now I just have to fill out my booklet and send it in and it's done.

Whaaat have I done in that time sewing wise... well, I started a sewing group that meets up every fourth friday. (and now that my practicum is done there are a couple ladies who would like to meet during the day, so I have to look into that as well now)

At the first one, in Jan, I finished up projects that have been sitting waiting to be done (and survived a move or two) a couple pillows for my daughter, and a dress for my other girl, as well as some barbie dresses. Then I got an outfit done for the baby doll in the K class at the school.. poor baby was naked, lol, but not anymore. Some pink plaid flannelette. Annnnnd then what else did I do... oh, I started to sew together a dress I cut out for my eldest girl, but I forgot to bring bias tape, so that one is sitting ALMOST done but not quite.

Yesterday I finished up the housecoats that I had cut out for the girls. They love them. They're made with fleece, with flannel trims and pockets.


Am hoping I can get more sewing done again now that I'm home more again, especially for my Etsy shop. Currently I'm working on something I want to enter in the design challenge for my Etsy team, but my machine is doing stupid things with the stitches, and I'm not even sure how to word it to google to try and find the solution. I wish there was someone here in town who fixed sewing machines, I can't get to the city till next week, and even then I have no idea where would be the best place to go *sigh*

Anywho, guess that's about it, toodles doodles!
~Sara

New Year Cometh

And with a Blue Moon as well. Seems to work somehow.

Am sort of working hard at getting stuff done for my Etsy shop. Indigo's just been hit with chicken pox though, so my time is divided, and I'm sure will only get more so once the others get it as well.

But otherwise I think I'm doing alright. Sewing on the snaps is likely going to be slow and tedious, as per usual. I'm a bit worried about taking pictures, my camera's getting more and more "special" *sigh* Everything collapsing at once. Anywho.

I've got all six of the summer dresses done now. I have an evening gown style dress done, and am currently working on more of the (as I think of them) ballroom style dresses that I had cut out a long while ago. I have another evening gown style to sew, and then a couple ken outfits, and that will be where I end for now and then I shall start sewing snaps (joy and bliss)

I noticed that my pickings of material for ken clothes is.. a bit slim, lol. I don't have much, in my opinion, that's mellowly toned enough for the usual ken look. It seems ho hum to always be solid colours, but I guess I'm going to have to look into getting some for use with his stuff.

Oh well.

I'm also pondering in my head the making up and then making of, some doll accessories.. bags and stuff like that. Could be interesting.

I'm hoping for good things in the new year. But I suppose everyone does, don't they?

Productivity is Great

Very Very productive, and I Love it. Going to take advantage of it while I can! My current goal is to make a bunch of stuff for listing on Etsy on the 1st. New year, new items kind of thing. Once I get the summer dresses I had cut out done, I shall break from the doll stuff long enough to assemble the dress I had cut out just before Zoe's bday in July :/ Procrastinating, my bad. So she can wear it at least once before she's too big for it, lol. Then I'm going to cut out some Ken clothes.

Not having to fit a bust and waist is going to be Thrilling I tell ya! Am also thinking up some accessories I could make up for them as well. Bags and such. Those little things that make play so much more fun :)

And here are pics of productivity.



Everything I got sewn yesterday after I finished the music bag.




8 new barbie dresses, wee!


Cute little pink lambs. I've got two blue ones listed in my Etsy shop already. And I made Xander a blue one with purple feet.. his Star.. although I hadn't intended it for him, but he LOVED it so much when I finished it, I HAD to give it to him :D (otherwise might have gone to one of the girls)

And today I have started on the summer style dresses I had cut out many moons ago, and here's one of them finished



There are supposed to be straps on it, but it stays up well on it's own, and the ribbon is a pain to sew in the right place :P lol. This dress doesn't really fit the old body style though... the top is too big on them. BUT they DO almost perfectly fit the newer body style, so Yay! I will have to remember to mention that in the listings when I make em.

And now that I've had my break, and caught this all up, I'm going to go continue!

Toodles Doodles!

Music Bag

I finally got a music bag done for my daughter, to carry her music books in. I had put off doing it for her bday, which came and went, then I thought, for xmas, which came and went, and so had my desire to do any sewing apparantly, lol. But it came back today, yay! So this morning I cut it out, and sewed it. It's a bag entirely of my own design. The front pocket is a bit bigger than it really needed to be I think, but oh well, overall I'm happy with it, as is Indigo.

Here's the bag, hanging from my door. The strap was too big for her right now, so I knotted it at the top. When she's bigger it can be opened. I used two music print pieces of cotton. I cut around the music books that would be going in, leaving extra room to accomodate the thickness, as well as the possibility of bigger books down the road.

I picked up these rings for a different project a year or two ago. Finding the extras very handy as accents to various projects like this. The handle is made of one piece of the outer fabric, and then a piece of the lining fabric. Lots of reinforcing stitching.

Kinda blurry shot of the pocket on the outside front. As I said before, bit bigger than it really needed to be, but oh well. Better than too small? lol It stays closed with velcro.

Front of bag. Button is just a random stray I have in my collection. Seemed to match well with the fabric.

The lining material. Bit seasonal with the metallic gold snowflakes, but I figured, since her birthday is a winter one, it works for her :)