Happy Halloween!

When I think Halloween I think candy. Maybe it's the joy of remembering a childhood filled with make believe costumes, running from house to house, and most of all the sugar high that I had as a kid that made Halloween my favorite part of Fall. This year I was determined that my two rug rats were going to experience the joy of Halloween. From great costumes to trick-or-treat. They would enjoy the time.

What I didn't realize was how much I chewed off. You might be asking yourself what she saying. You get a costume, a bag, and run crazy right? Yes that's what you do. Only for me a cheap store bought costume wasn't going to cut it. My son and daughter deserved quality. So off I went to the fabric store to get material for them. Boy did that start my headache.

At the store I couldn't find a single costume pattern to satisfy my kids taste or mine. So I resolved to make my own. For my son, a star wars outfit that any Jedi would love. For my daughter, a trick-or-treat fairy made of candy/halloween prints. After trial an error and many many hours my kids and I were satisfied.

Today they wore there homemade costumes at the churches Trunk-or-treat. They had a blast. Hit a huge sugar high. And overall made a memory of a great Halloween. The hours spent was so worth their joy.

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A Ladybug Tote

For the last few days I've been designing and sewing a tote for my Mother-In-Law. It's theme was focused around ladybugs. First the measuring and drafting if a plan that fits a 10 x10 book.



From the picture you can see I'm planing to have a see through pocket. Sewing decorative vinyl is extremely time consuming because you have to be patent and slow. It took me two pieces and lots of failures before I managed it. Next was sewing the inner pockets that are designed to hold pens and note cards.



After that I assembled all the pieces and sewed in a nice brite red lining.



My final step was to stitch around the top to insure durability as books are pulled in and out.

Beads & A Little Scrap Fabric....

Today's project.... A hand made small tote bag. Totes are such handy things to have around. You never know when you might need one. From small to large sizes the pattern can be quite easy to make. But to jazz up this small tote I added a little beadwork. Take a look!



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The Bear That Ate My Daughter

Today's massive project make a boutique bear. This is a trial run of the pattern I plan to sell at the Nov holiday bizarre. Only each bear will be slightly different. So my first part of the project is the cutting out and modifying of an old pattern I picked up. This process is so time consuming and always a big wager on wheather or not it works. But it allows me the chance to personalize the bears.


Here you see my brown accent material. The main section of this bear is pink with brown dots. I'll have another that will be brown with pink accents. In the end I had way more pieces then I knew what to do with.


After finaly locating all the body pieces and losing 5 hours of my day I had the body done.


Then after over another hour I finally got the head attached. I must admit that the first try saw the head on backwards. My husband dubbed it the exorcist bear. But I managed to get it on right only for it to be clamed by the prima of my house. Too bad she's going to have to give it back for stuffing and facial surgery tomorrow.



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A New Dress

I've been in a sewing kick the last week. The only thing that I have to show for it is my daughters dress, too bad it is two sizes to big. At the rate she is growing she will be in it next spring. I am ok at sewing. I just wish I could get sizes right. I've miss judged a skirt for me and now my daughters dress. The good thing is it's such a heavey material that it could go for winter with a long shirt under.



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Insanity at Store.

.... Sitting here at store to buy fabric to make a dress. Never ever take kids to a fabric store. That is my advice for the day.

Left is the dress pattern that I found that I liked. I'm planning to make the dress without straps or sleeves. I just hope the dress turns out nice for my husbands military ball. So I guess taking the kids wasn't a complete loss since I did find a good pattern in my size.

.... The silk in the photo looks brighter the it does in person, but has nice depth for use in a evening gown. I just hope I can pull of this shade of color. My original plan was to use the black chiffon to tone down the scarlet color, but my pattern look horrible on me when I practiced it in cotton. So with the new pattern and enough luck I will have a better dress to wear. Now I just have to cut it and sew it. I wish it wasn't two pieces though. That is the the only thing I hate about this pattern. If I was a truly good at this I'd fins a way to fix this.

.... The sad thing about formals is that topically you only get about one wear out of them. Maybe someone needs to start a second round swap formal wear shop on post. Just think if such a shop existed, all those wives swapping dress instead of purchasing new ones. It would definitely save on the pocket book. Plus there would always be a place to go looking when you need a dress.

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