Sewing Club to happen again!!!

Sewing will be happening again!!  It will be at Tonia's this year!  We will be meeting at 10am the 4th Monday of the month, bring whatever you are working on. Put it on your calendar so you don't miss it!! Hope to see you there!

Here is some more stuff I (Brittney) made!!

Alright ladies, now I REALLY want to see what you've been up to so post some pictures on here so we can see!!

Look what I've been up to...

So I've been toying around with pillowcase dresses. 

This is a standard size pillowcase that works great for my little girls and you can even make them smaller by cutting them down.

This one is made from a king size pillowcase and is great for my big girls.  I added a little ruffle to the bottom of this one to break up the pattern a bit.

And then this...

I LOVE how this turned out. SO cute.  It's actually going to be for Maddie and it will be a little big for her but that will mean she can wear it for awhile.  I will be making one of these for Lacey so I wanted to size it for her and I think it will be just right!

Now I want to see if you've done anything this summer!!  Get it on here, I wanna see it!

Let's get sewing!!

So ladies we have taken the summer off and should all be ready to get busy sewing!!  I don't know if anyone has any ideas that would be fun but if you do you should post them here!  We will probably start back up in September so I hope your ready!!  Can't wait to get together with you all again and get creative!

Fun cloth dolls

Check this cute little project out!  I really think we should do this for next months sewing club!!  What do you think?

Here is the link for the whole tutorial!

Project Ideas

I was looking through one of the books I got from the library and found this little cutie. Is anyone interested in making one of these? It has a zipper which is something I need to work on! Let me know!

Another Idea

So as I was looking around I saw this. There is a tutorial here: http://www.modabakeshop.com/2010/01/childs-activity-bag.htmlThought this would be cute to put color books and scribble pads in!

Art Portfolio

Here is the portfolio that I have come up with. It holds 40 crayons and a 9x12 art pad. I haven't exactly got the answer for the thing I would rather use for a stiffing agent to make it keep it's shape a little better but I am thinking pellon might be the answer. You will need a total of about 1 1/4 yard of fabric. I had 5/8 or the yellow and flowered and used a scrap of the pink. You will also need a scrap of interfacing for the handles, 6x14in will do. If you have any questions please comment on here and I'll get back to you. Also I think I would put a pocket on the ourside, the other thing I forgot was the closure elastic, you use a pony holder and a buttone so make sure you bring that too! I like it but I think there is definatly a way to make it better. I will be trying another one of these before we meet so I will let you know if I come up with any changes or suggestions.

Also, if you need fabric JoAnns is having a 40% off sale of their Keepsake Calico starting the 17th thru the 19th I think. One of the best sales of that that they have all year and they've got some pretty cute stuff to pick from!

Sewing for January 2010

We are planning on getting together and sew FINALLY!! Now that Christmas is over and the kids are back in school I feel all ready to start some new projects!! So Tonia and I were talking about doing crayon, note pad portfolios, something that looks like this:


The thing I don't like about this is it only holds a 6x9 note pad and I want one that holds a 9x12 note pad so Melanie is going to help us transform something like this into a larger version. If you don't want to do this project that is fine just bring what you would like to work on, if you do want to make one of these I will post the supplies as soon as we get the pattern figured out! Hope to see you there!