Jan

05

Making little baby gifts has been one of my favorite things to sew since I’ve had my embroidery machine. I need to figure out some way to have a little side business with it! Kathryn is about the only person that’s wanted to “hire” me; she seems to have a lot of friends having babies […]

Filled Under: Sewing

Jan

03

Really it’s initials instead of the whole name, at least on the blankets it was. We have several couple friends that we wanted to give a little something for Christmas so I decided to monogram some throws for them. I liked the font and used just a single initial on the blanket. I also monogram […]

Filled Under: Sewing

Jan

02

One of my favorite gifts I gave this year was something I did for Ava Clair. I made her a pink “dress up” dress to play in! I had forgotten that little sleeves and little seams are a bit harder to do than big people things but I enjoyed doing it and liked how it […]

Filled Under: Family, Sewing

Nov

28

A few weeks ago I received some patterns in the mail from Barb for making these Christmas ornaments. She very kindly offered to mail them out to people that wanted them and she had quite a few takers. The Santa star ornament caught my eye and I thought how cute it would be to do […]

Filled Under: Sewing

Nov

07

I spent a lot of time last week on some sewing projects. One of my kids asked me to make some baby things that they could give as gifts to friends that were having babies. So I’ve gotten them all finished, boxed up and mailed off to said child who has received them in the […]

Filled Under: Sewing

Aug

14

I finished some burp cloths a week or two ago for a friend’s son whose first baby was about to be born. They turned out really cute I thought and someone had asked me to post a picture, so I don’t have to be encouraged too much to do that! I used a couple of […]

Filled Under: Sewing

Jun

19

I’ve had a sewing project that I’ve been working on for my mother in law and somehow it’s not coming together and it seems that I’m not supposed to get it done because everything is working against me! Have had quite a time with the fabric and colors, so finally switched to a different material […]

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May

31

I didn’t quite get through last week with the things I had been monogramming…..got a few more graduation invitations in the mail so I needed to get something done for those. I’m a little late sending some of them but hopefully can get them in the mail today. No more baby gifts at the moment, […]

Filled Under: Sewing

May

24

Been sewing/monogramming lately for gifts that I want to finish; some for baby and others for graduation. I still have a few more to do that will need to get in the mail but that will be later this week or next week. The hardest part of doing it is actually getting started but when […]

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