Valentines Embroidery

Valentines Embroidery for DD#2 & the Grandson






Embroidery design from Embroitique

Sam

This is My Sewing Space

Badge Reels

Made 20 sets of these buttons with a badge reel. They finished @ 1.5 inches!

Very Cute.






Sam

First Official Up-Cycle Shirt

My daughter bought a t-shirt for the baby and it wa suppossed to be a 3T size, but it fit more like a 18 months. (and it was short sleeved too...) Well, the baby REALLY likes Elmo! So? What is a Nana to do? I cut Elmo off the old t-shirt & appliqued him onto a shirt that fits! I see a lot more of this in my future as it's super simple. I did not zig-zag stitch - since it's a knit fabric & will not fray, I just straight stitched with black thread in the black areas of the Elmo design & left the edges raw.

At first I tried to use steam a seam on it. That didn't work so good because I could not iron on the Elmo..So? What did I use? Quilt Basting Spray! It's temporary & will wash out.

It really came out adorable & I can't wait for the baby to wear it this week.




Sam

Candy Wreath

Was surfing the internet for Homemade Christmas Ornaments & came across these Candy Wreaths. I thought; "Slf, you can do this!" So i did.

I stopped at Michaels on my way home for a wire wreath form, the large green one was all I could find there. I was reluctant to use a coat hanger, as some of the people on the internet said that the coat hanger wire was not heavy enough to support all the candy. We have these wires left over from when we built our garage 4 years agao (in alabama) and they are used to hold insulation in/up while you put drywall up (like on the ceiling). This metal wire is pretty heavy. I don't know the guage, but i had to bend the hooks to connect the wire in the VISE ! And then Prince Charming finished bending the wire into an acceptable circle.

You can see the size difference in the first picture on the kiddy table.


Before I even went & found the wire, I spent some time tying ribbons on the candy. That's only ONE bag you see here.


It looks sort hairy here, but it's a 1/3 done now.......(the ribbon will be trimmed off)


Some ribbons trimmed & about ....what? 80% done?


Done! This is about 1 & half bags of candy.


I think the bow could have been larger, but it's what I had on hand. Looks a little bland against the baby gate! But it turned out exactly how I wanted it too!!


I want to make one from Butterscotch candy & then maybe one from Cinnomin Candy & Peppermints together. Seen them on "floral" websites & they want a BUNCH of money for them.

Sam

Not A Successful Night

I wanted to embroider a few things for my niece tonight. I wanted to make 2 t-shirts & a hooded towel. Well........I got 1 t-shirt done & then ATE the 2nd one, then I embroidered the hood part of the towel & then tried the 3rd shirt, which would actually be the 2nd...are you following??? Well the machine ATE that one too.

So I figured I was done for the night. It's after 10PM & my eyes are burning.

I figure my errors are due to not using the correct stabilizers.......My machine does NOT like sticky back stabilizers. Gums up the needles....so I have to do something else. Find something else......problem is? I have a BUNCH of this stuff. Yay!

I will post pictures if I can get the tot to model my creations tomorrow.

Good night all.

Sam

Hooded Towel

I spent a LAZY day today, not doing much of anything. Once I did get around to moving around some, I decided to try & make some hooded towels. I made more than 1, but I'm only showing this one.

As you can tell, I did NOT have a co-operative model. I did try, he did not wish to participate.So I gave up arguing with a 2 year old and used the next best thing. A trash can & a ball.

I wish you could see this IRL. It fits his head so nice and since I put a little pleat in the back of the towel it gives him lots of room for the towel to wrap around his shoulders.






Sam