My Niece's Dress

I have no idea why I haven't posted this on my blog! I made a little dress for my niece. It was super easy to make. The hat though did give me some problems. I did not quite understand how to make the hat so I improvised and made it myself. Still came out ok, though not perfect.

Here is the dress and the matching hat:

Here is the back:

Here she is in the dress. Isn't she cute?:

My Laudry Room Continued...

I finished the curtains that go over the washer and dryer. It came out super cute! The only left to really put in there for it to be complete is the wall decal which should be here any day now.


I was watching HGTV's Design Star and saw on their first episode one of the rooms that was done and it had the same fabric that I used in my laundry room! It was so cool. Here is the room, see if you can spot the fabric on the headboards.




That room was gorgeous!

Hopefully I can update next week with final laundry pictures.

My New Project

I was looking through my sewing websites and was looking at Burda Style when I found a project that I have to go try right now. I am going to make a pair of shorts out of a tshirt! It looks super easy to do and I have everything I need to make it... just a tshirt! Though I will have to find a good tshirt that I wouldn't mind changing. Off to sew!

Update!

Here is the finished product. It came out super cute! But like someone posted on the comments section of the tutorial, there isn't too much room in the butt. But they make cute pajama bottoms nonetheless. I think this will be a good quick and easy gift to give. I will have to find the perfect tshirts for my friends! It took me a total of about an hour to make and that was only because I had to keep reading the tutorial to make sure I was right on track.

Here is the front view:


Here is a back view:


Side view:


Side view:

I hate doing laundry but at least the laundry room is pretty!

I am *almost* completely done with the makeover. I have painted everything and am missing just a couple of last minute details. I am getting a vinyl phrase "Laundry, loads of fun" to put over the window, and I have curtains to put up over the washing machine (from the ceiling to the shelf). I will start that curtain tomorrow most likely.
Here is a panaramic picture (I didn't know about this feature on my camera, it's so cool!), sorry the lighting is bad.



Here are some other pictures.

Part 1 of my Laundry Room Makeover

So one of the things that I want to do this summer is makeover my laundry room. The hubby says that I can do whatever I want to it. So I am going to paint it, make curtains, and redo it to make it more 'homey'. I want a bright and airy color on the walls and a fun patterned fabric. So I went to Joann's and found a great fabric and I am basing everything around my fabric. I wasn't quite sure how I wanted to do make the curtain for the laundry room but I bought the fabric and thought I'd 'wing it'. Well the other day I went to Hancock Fabrics and they were having a sale on their McCall's Patterns. I bought like 6 different patterns for different things. One of the patterns had a valance that I wanted to use for the window. Well yesterday I spent a good 3 hours on the curtain and it came out wonderful! I am so proud of this valance! The most tedious part was cutting the pieces out. That can be tiring! But I finished it and it beautiful if I do say so myself.

Here are some pictures of the valance in the laundry room. I put it up to see what it would look like.


Here is a picture where you can see the color that I am going to paint the wall. It is Glidden's True Turquoise.


Here is a picture of the other side of the valance. The contrast color is brown.


Tomorrow I plan to start painting the laundry. But first I have to empty it!

My Rocking Chair

So over the weekend I sewed some more loveliness! I made covers for the cushions on the rocking chair that I have in my classroom. It was a boring bland plaid pattern. I used fabric that I had gotten for cheap last year. They are frogs.... for Mrs. Phillips' Frogs! It is super cute. I will hopefully get a pic tomorrow. I am pretty proud with the cushion covers. I can't wait to sew more things. =)

My New Hobby

For Christmas, I had asked J to get me a sewing machine. And J got me a fancy Singer Tradition. It is super easy to use! My first project was this weekend. J had decided to make the backyard game, "Cornhole". I volunteered to make the bean bags to play the game. Here are my Tennessee and Florida State bean bags:




My original plan was to find UT fabric and FSU fabric but Joann's only had UT fabric and not FSU fabric so I decided to keep it uniform and just make them orange and garnet with black backs.



Well my bean bags needed something to 'travel' in, so of course they need a bag. I decided to make a drawstring bag for them. One side is garnet and black.



The other side is orange and black.



Here is detail of the drawstring part.



Since my new found hobby, I have managed to buy some sewing books/magazines with my Christmas gift cards. I got a this book: Seams to Me


I have started making a Pin Cushion Caddy from a pattern in the book. I hope to finish it by this weekend.