Emily F's tote bag

Here's the little bag I made to carry my embroidery hoop and whatever project I'm currently working on. (ignore my manly-looking hairy arm).

Look! It's reversible!

Now that I have somewhere pretty to keep my stuff, maybe I will actually finish more than one project a year! Maybe.

Lauren's Lounge Pants

I'm not really into sewing clothes for myself. Or sewing clothes in general. I find I can usually find things for cheaper in stores and then I don't have to spend the time and frustration in making something that looks like I made it.

But I wanted to participate in the challenge, so I used this tutorial to make a pair of lounge pants out of one of Preston's old t-shirts. I have to call them lounge pants because by law, kids' pajamas have to be either made of flame resistant material or very tight fitting. These are neither. So I call them lounge pants and if she happens to fall asleep wearing them........I would wake her up and put flame resistant pajamas on her, naturally.

These are super low rise. The pants I used as a guide were a good couple of inches too long, so I wanted to shorten them, but being me, I took the extra off the top instead of the bottom. Duh.

I didn't want to waste the rest of the shirt, so I used the sleeves to make a quick pair of shorts. No close ups on the shorts because I managed to sew one side inside out (see above about things I make looking like I made them).

Here's the link to the tutorial. Blogger and IE 9 don't get along and it's not letting me link to it. http://www.rookiemoms.com/make-some-easy-kids-pants/

Bags o' Emily F

I have failed in my mission to be last this month. I got so bored last week when The Return of Winter forced us indoors with nowhere to go and nothing to do that I figured I might as well spend an afternoon getting this out of the way. I actually made three bags, but here are two.

This is my first one with this awesome fabric I found for 81 cents in the remnant bin.
Can you guess what's going inside?

And then I made one of these.

The sides didn't match up very well, haha. But it was my third project of the day and I was getting tired of sewing, plus I was in a hurry to finish before Lauren woke up, plus I like all my projects to have character, so I'm fine with it.

Some bibs for you

This is a bib I made for a baby shower gift. I more or less followed this tutorial at Make It - Love It. I think it turned out cute, but I probably wouldn't do it again. It took way too much time for something that's just going to be spit up and slobbered on.



This bib was much easier, and I actually like it better. I used a flannel print for the front and cut up a cheap hand towel for the back.


Oh, and I can't get out my sewing machine without making something out of Cheerios fabric. For the back of this one, I used the other cut-off leg of an old pair of sweats. I just knew those would come in handy someday.


I used buttonhole closures on most of these for several reasons. 1) I had buttons. 2) Velcro tends to stick to everything in the wash and eventually becomes unsticky. 3) I find that buttons or snaps work best to keep the bib on the baby. Velcro can be yanked off mid-meal and Lauren can lift the over-the-head ones over her head.

I'm glad I was already started on these. Now I can put away the darn machine and not get it out again until the last day of March.

Los de Emily

I finally made the stupid hotpads. I can't believe how much fun I had making these hotpads! Sewing is the bees knees and I can't wait for the next project.

I went with an aquatic theme for my first hotpad.


I also named all the fish while I was sewing. Hi Tiny, Bubbles, Goldie, Sam, Sydney, Perth, Jimmer, Matt.

I went with a BYU theme for my second hotpad. I think I'll give it to Janet to match her BYU apron. I had some little iron-on patches that I thought would be perfect for this.


I meant for the patches to be in the middle of the squares, but I forgot about the seam allowance, which was generous. I had used the tiniest zigzag stitch to stitch them on, so there was no going back. This hot pad is definitely one of a kind. Sorry, I am unable to take orders at this time.

Then, because I lOvE sewing SO much, I did a bonus project and made some bibs. I hope this gets me an extra entry into the drawing.



Lauren was kind enough to try one on.


That's all.