Fancy Pants!!

Yesterday was a great day for sewing. I'll show you why in a second. First I want to show off this bundle of ribbon I got for $4 at Hobby Lobby. It's 60 yards of assorted ribbon!!

Okay, now for why yesterday was a great day for sewing. I found a contest to enter to win an awesome serger. The contest was to take one of the selected projects and teach someone how to sew it. I picked the Pajama Pants project to teach. Can you guess who I taught to sew?? First here's a picture of the fabric all cut out and partially stitched:

It's my awesome husband, Ricky!!

I think he did a great job. What do you think?

I have to say that yesterday was an awesome day. I had a lot of fun teaching Rick how to sew and appreciate him for going along with it. And, yes, the pants are quite cozy. :-)

Fancy Dress, Dice Bag and more!!

Today's Ricky's birthday! It was a good, relaxing day. And now he's playing a bit WoW while I blog a bit. Yesterday I had promised to post something cute I had just finished. Well, I made some spaghetti! No...not pasta...spaghetti straps for a cute dress I made for my niece, Cecilia. I found some pre-shirred fabric in the remnant bin at Joann's and I had to have it and I had to make it into a cute dress for Cece. I took it over to measure it on her and she called me the next day to see if it was done because her mommy was home now. She was so excited, it was very cute. I gave it to her today. Okay, time for some pictures!

Here's the yummy spaghetti:

And here's the dress!:

I found instructions on how to shir fabric. I am determined that I will make something shirred by summer. It looks easy enough, I just have to be brave and hope my machine doesn't eat the elastic thread! I also made a little something for Ricky to match his WoW playing cushion. It's a DICE bag...haha that's right...a bag to put his D&D dice in!!

When I was looking for the bit of dice fabric that I knew I had left, I found a purse I made earlier this month that I didn't post. The pattern comes from Amy Karol's Bend-the-Rules Sewing: The Essential Guide to a Whole New Way to Sew book. It's called the Charming Handbag. It's cute and pretty simple.

The flower I made comes from the Rolled Rose tutorial I found of at Portabellopixie's blog. It didn't roll exactly how I wanted it to, but I like how it turned out.

Fancy Spring Top

Yay!! I am finally caught up! I have posted all of my old projects since I began this journey. I feel like I have learned lots, and am getting better. And more confident. I branched out and tried my hand at an item of clothing. This is the second wearable thing I have ever made. The first being a pair of pajama pants I made when I took a costuming class in college.

This project is my first top, and I am quite proud of it. It's Made By Rae's Spring Ruffle Top (minus the ruffles) that can be found over at Sew Mama Sew. Can you tell I love Made By Rae's stuff? She makes the neatest things, I especially love all the tops she makes, I just wish she had patterns for more of them. I posted this top a few days ago on Facebook, but here it is again. I commented that I was ready for Spring so that I could wear it. I need to be brave and make something with sleeves.

Okay, here it is!! What do you think?

Cute, huh? I will probably have a new post tomorrow as I just finished making something cute for a cute girl.

Fancy Lickety-Split bag

Here it is!! My first buttonhole!! I used my buttonhole foot for the first time and I think it turned out pretty good!

A buttonhole needs a button. Well, this one got 2! The bag I made is reversible!

These awesome buttons are attached to my new bag. I got the pattern from Made By Rae. It's called the Lickety Split Bag. I think it is one of my favorites. I added the flap and the buttons myself. It has 2 pockets on each side. I love the pockets, they're big enough to hold a bottle of water. I have never been a big purse girl, but I love this one!

Here's one side:

and here's the other:

Fancy Accessories!

Here's a few random small things I have made. These are in no particular order. Most of them live inside my purse.

First a shot of some ric-rac because it is awesome:

Somewhere between making the messenger bag and all of those Buttercup bags, I attempted make a wallet. it's is far from perfect, but it works for me. I hammered on the top snap piece before I was supposed to, but it turned out ok. I burnt it a little bit when I ironed it. Hey, it's a learning process. :-) You can tell it has been well used, it has started to take on the shape of the stuff it was holding. I do have to say pounding on the snap was quite fun!!

Here's some more recent things I made. A little zipper pouch and a Garmin cozy!!

Here they are open:

Look, the garmin cozy is reversible!!

And here's another Buttercup Bag. This is one I made for me from some fat quarters I got at Wal*mart for $1 each. In fact, all of these projects were made from fat quarters from Wal*mart.

I am almost caught up with posting everything I have made since I started this adventure a few months ago. Thanks for looking!!