Graduation Rosette's on Rulers

These were made the night before my son's high school graduation by my daughters and myself. We used the cricut cartridge Ribbons & Rosettes. 

When he did his graduation walk, we yelled and waved these little attention getters in the air. LOL

Anyway, on with the craft. We used black card stock and red card stock (high school colors) on the cricut machine to make the rosettes and circles. We used fabric ribbons in red/black and cream plaid, also solid red and solid black. The stick is a ruler. Some heavy duty glue everything glue (including fingers, clothing, and other unintentional things). 

Gwendolyn copied some of my son's (Nathan) senior pictures on regular printer paper at home.

It took six 3" cutouts of the star design to make one rosette. One 2" circle for the photo to be mounted on and the same for the back of rosette. Make sure you cut the photo slightly smaller so the color of the circle shows a little. Make a total to three 2" circles. I mounted the ribbon in between the circles on the back for a cleaner look.

This project can be done alone but the extra set of hands really helped with keeping everything together so it could be glued.  That's it so give it a whirl!

Company Logo Baby Layette

This is a little layette that I made for one of the employees at my husbands work. I made the baby gown from a t-shirt bearing the company's logo. The baby shoes were made from the sleeves of another work shirt and the burp pads were made using fabric that I had printed at spoonflower.com. All of the items were combined in a small basket and presented to the employee who went absolutely nuts over the items. That really makes you feel good to know that they thoroughly enjoyed the gift!

All of the items were made using FREE patterns listed here:

Baby Booties pattern: 

http://stardustshoes.blogspot.com/2006/10/cloth-shoe-pattern.html

T-Shirt baby gown pattern: http://go.tipjunkie.com/hm/2170/thismamamakesstuff.com/tutorial-rockin-baby-gown-t-shirt-refashion/

Burp Cloth pattern:

 http://cloud9fabrics.blogspot.com/2010/12/tutorial-contoured-burp-cloths.html

I've Got A Notion!

What notion is your favorite and how do you use it?

I really like my hem clips. You know those little metal clips that look something like a clothes pin. I have not only used them to help hold hems in place, but have used them as extra hands for other projects as well. Glueing paper projects that need to be held in place, temporary fittings for garments and to hold patterns to fabric when marking. Gotta love those handy dandy notions!

PAINTING CLASS WITH MY SON

Merry Stockings Personalized

Description

These stockings are my own design. I will try to upload my pattern at a later time, for those of you that might be interested. I used a plaid cotton that I had just sitting in my sewing room and a solid red heavy cotton for the cuff. The names were embroidered on the red fabric, with my Babylock machine, before cutting the angled cuff design from the fabric. It made it easier to line up the white embroidery thread names.

They were made the week of Christmas and yes, Santa filled them all!

Material Notes

Cotton Plaid from Fabric.com, Solid Red Heavy Cotton, White Embroidery Thread, Regular red sewing thread

Categories

Season

Winter

For

Home/Deco

Garment Type

Other

Style

Classic

Material

Cotton

BURDASTYLE HANDBOOK LAUNCH PARTY IN NEW YORK

I was invited to the Burdastyle Handbook Launch Party and had an absolutely wonderful time despite the fact that I was ill the entire trip. I met so many members from our Burdastyle community along with some great company reps, such as spoonflower.com with Steven and Stitch Editor-in-Chief Tricia Waddell. Members and contributers to the book Anajan, helene, jodi, jeffery, and many more. We went bowling the night before the party. I was the first one up and broke the ice with falling and breaking my arse. LOL Needless to say, it was all good after that!

P.S. I'm wearing the crown!

Vest for Splicer Costume

I made this vest using Home decor fabric for the front and a linen for the back. 8 buttons down the front and a tie cincher in the back. Drafted my own pattern.

Halloween Wreath

This is a Halloween wreath that I made for my son's party.

What I used:

Wire wreath form

2-feather boa's

size 20 wire

2-skulls from Target

Simply wrap the boa around the form using wire to lash it to the form. The two skulls only had one hole in them so I had to put a second hole to thread the wire through and lash them to the wreath. Now that's a simple project!

BOO Bloomers

Orange with black bows Boo Bloomers made for my daughters for Halloween. I wanted to put a pumpkin face on the back side but didn't think they would care for them and then thought about embroidering Boo on the front lower right leg and just ran out of time. Oh well, they will be able to wear them for the fall season.
The pattern is from Colette Patterns and is free here: Colette Free Bloomers Pattern
They are called Madeleine Mini Bloomers.

Been BOOed?

Have you been Booed?

It's simple really. Print a Color or Black & White "BOO" sheet and include it with a delicious treat. Leave it on someone's door step, ring the bell, and Run Run Run!

If you have been Boo'ed, cut out a ghost or use the provided sign and place it on or near your door so you won't be Boo-ed again.

Before long you will have a neighborhood full of ghosts!

This is the sign I did to be included in my neighbors Boo Bag.