Welcome back sewing..

Wow, I'm a sewing slacker. I realized today I haven't sewn anything since last September! I'm hoping after today, I will make more time for it! It's been about 6 months since I saw this tutorial on making a grocery bag holder. I cut out all the strips and sewed them together and then for some strange reason, I just stopped! And the piece has just been sitting on top of my machine. I've been keeping our sacks in one of those nice reusable bags from Aldi and that big thing hangs on the wall in a closet. Being the grocery bag hoarder that I am, the bag just kept growing and growing, taking up over half of the stinkin closet! Sweet hubby finally told me I needed to get rid of some or do something else with them!! So I decided to finish making my grocery bag holder! I'm not digging the fabrics together so much anymore but 6 months ago, it was the only 3 I had at the time that went best together. Hey, it beats an Aldi bag!

My first pillowcase dress

Here is the other pillowcase dress I made a couple weeks ago. This is actually the very first one I made! I can't wait to put my BK in it. The applique was done by Fuzzy Lemons (my sister-in-law's monogramming business). Check out her stuff! : Fuzzy Lemons or Fuzzy Lemons on Facebook

Getting my "sew on!"

Here are my recent sewing projects. For a while now, I have been wanting so badly to learn how to make pillowcase dresses. Well guess what! I finally learned! Had I known it was going to be so dadgum easy I would have learned a LONG time ago. The first one I made I don't have a picture of (will post later) because it is getting appliqued. But it is a turquoise corduroy fabric. It's going to have an orange pumpkin with white polka dots on the front and I added orange with white polka dot ribbon. The 2nd dress (below) when I saw this fabric, I fell in love. There's just something about owls I love. Especially with the fall around the corner! (screaming inside with excitement!) I am totally not digging the "ribbon" on this. I didn't have any to go with this dress so I used some leftover fabric from the torquoise dress and made my own "ribbon." Yeah well that's 45 minutes of my life I'll never get back. I hate it!

















Hey, remember in one of my past posts about my favorite bible that I had to ghetto rig because pages were falling out?? Well, "walla!" No more tacky looking bible. I actually got it a little too big because while making this, my worst fear was that I would make it too small and my bible wouldn't fit AT ALL! I'll do better next time!













Here's a look inside. I love the cute little pen pocket!












Happy sewing!
-Lisa E