Blue Striped

I recently wore this to church during a cold snap.

 

 

Details-

White headband

Silver cross necklace

Long sleeve white shirt

V-neck blue striped shirt

White skirt

I put the long sleeve shirt under the striped shirt to make it more modest and warm.

Sewing:Work Skirt

Recently, I made myself a work skirt.  It is not fancy, but is suitable for outside.  I made it, thinking it would be perfect.  After all, I made it myself!  Turns out, it didn't fit so well.  When I walked, the skirt was tight around my legs.  So.......

I ripped it apart!  I had made a front and a back piece so that was no problem.

I added in two triangular pieces which looked like this:

 

The finished product:

 

 

Note- I made it with some leftover fabric that is see-through. 

Therefore, I always wear something under it.

Sewing:Tool Belt

Hello!  One of my recent projects was a tool belt for a little boy as a gift.

 

 

What I did-

1.      Found suitable fabric in my fabric stash. I choose a tan frog print and some leftover denim
 

2.      Sewed two of the frog print pieces together
 

3.      Sewed the other two frog print pieces together
 

4.      Rounded off the two bottom corners of both pieces
 

5.      Cut two inches off one of the pieces
 

6.      Cut the denim into two inch strips

7.      Ironed the denim to make the trim

8.      Attached some of the trim to the top of the smaller frog print piece

9.      Sewed the smaller frog print piece on top of the larger frog print piece

10.  Sewed lines through both pieces to create pockets

11.  Attached the trim

12.  Made the ties with the extra fabric from step 5

13.  Attached the ties

 

 

 

Baking

I'll take a break from all my sewing posts and tell you about one of my latest baking projects. :)

 

 

Recently my little brother turned 10!
Baseball is one of his hobbies and he was so thrilled to see the cake.  Mom and I tried to keep it a secret and we managed fairly well......

The cake is a double layer 9 inch round cake.

Funny thing about the frosting: We had a few of his friends over and once they looked at the cake they asked who made it.  I said that I had made it and one of the boys said, "Well that's why it is pink!"  It turns out that the "stitches" were a reddish-pink!  I could not get the white frosting to turn red!

Sewing: Baby Blanket

Sewing: Apron

1.      Found suitable fabric in my fabric stash. I chose an orange flower print and some white fabric

2.      Cut the flower print fabric using another apron

 

 

 

3.      Cut the white into 2 inch strips

4.      Ironed the white fabric to make the trim

5.      Attached the trim

6.      Attached the ribbon

 

 

 

 

Welcome Back!

Hello Everyone!

It is so good to be back!

 

Here is what I have been doing recently.............

School

 

Baking

 

Sewing!

And somewhere in between I found time to turn 13!

 

More to come!

 

Technical

I have had a few people tell me they could not post a comment on my blog because the don't have a blogger profile.  So I'll walk you through the process.

 

 

Click on the Blog post title.

 

You should come to a page that has just the blog post and the side bar.

Scroll to the bottom.  You should see "Post a Comment".

 

Type your comment in the box.

Then hit the down arrow in "Select profile".

 

Pick "Anonymous" and hit "Publish".

Your comment will not appear right away as I have to approve it first.

 

Please note- These pictures are from the old blog format