Nana's New Hat

I was on the phone with my mom today and she said my Nana needed a new hat. I was already getting a new one for me, so grabbing one more and a few supplies from Michaels was easy!

My version of the Lego Bag

 I found a bunch of tutorials online for Lego bags... My nephew asked me for one and I ended up trying to do two but was unsuccessful with the second one...

I read one tutorial and ended up not buying enough fabric to make it large enough for the two I wanted to buy and I had already cut the fabric without thinking... 

So I ran back to the store later on after putting a basic small one together... 

But I only halfway finished the second one (it sits in my craft room) sigh! 

When I went back to the craft store I bought enough fabric to make one for my nephew and one for a friends grandson.

I cut both of them and completed the one I was suppose to give to my nephew...

This was a year and a half ago...

I got alot of the second one done!

I got to about this point below us when I started having major trouble getting my sewing machine to keep working...

So I got another vintage sewing machine!

Unfortunately it started to smell after using it for the third time. I got the thing from a newspaper ad and I don't really know it's history...

It's in need of a little work at the moment and has needed it since about a week after I got it.

Getting another sewing machine that needed work was a bit frustrating!

But I love sewing by hand.

 With the help of my sister we cut these out!! I have been working on getting all nine of them sewn onto each of the bags. Of course these were on the completed bag.

 All the Lego pieces are done being cut out!

I'll need a little bit more time to finish sewing them together! (good rainy day project!)

This is a pic of the bag before sewing on the Lego pieces.

This one below is the one that ended up too small and the one above it the one I gave my nephew!

I have had a lot fun trying to put these together and A LOT of frustration not being able to complete the project maybe I'll be able to finish the second one and get some better pictures up on this blog sometime soon!

Baby Clothes Quilt in Black and Pink

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I started and finished this project sometime last year! Opps it took forever for me to get this posted and I know I'm not very consistent. I wanted to make something for my little girl out of all the baby clothes that she had that I didn't want to save and were a bit too worn to pass on. I cut all of her cute pink clothes that I had into 4 inch squares. I then took some black flannel I had left over from another project and used that as well. Her theme was black and pink when she was tiny because I loved the color combo!  

 I then laid all the squares out in the order that i wanted them. After that i stacked the rows together  and sewed them row by row.

 Here is a pic of the work about half way done. 

 My sister helped me with sewing on the backing here is her working hard to help me get it done!

 As you can see in this pic all we did was turn the quilt so that the right side was down facing the back piece of the quilt. Then we sewed it together and turned it right side out through a small opening on one of the sides and quickly stitched that up and we were all but done. I planned on taking yarn and making little knots to hold the back to the front but sadly my daughter claimed it before I was able to do so.

Here it is finished!

 And here is where I stared to tie the little knots. This is what the look like from the back.

DIY Headbands from fabric scraps

 A couple of weeks ago my cousin Erin came up with a great idea to help me use up some of my fabric scraps!! She said I should make some headbands. I agreed that it was a good idea and started to hunt the internet for a tutorial... I came across one on YOUTUBE.com from 

secretlifeofabionerd here is her Headband Tutorial

 I started by sewing a bunch of tubes then took a safety pin and turned them inside out.

 So here are all the tubes I have made so far.

 I ironed them out to make them easier to work with.

 Then I started putting them together. I made a little loop and threaded them through and sewed them down so the would stay together.

 After that I attached some fabric covered elastic. Which I am sorry I didn't take pictures of I promise on the next one I will get a picture. But I was in a hurry and didn't stop to take more pictures.

Here are the two that I have completed so far. If you have any questions just leave a comment and I will get back to you as soon as I can... Thanks

Sheet to Dress for my little one

I really wanted to sew a dress for my toddler but I didn't want to go out and buy a bunch of materials. So I took an old black tee shirt and a cream colored jersey sheet and cut them up. I used one of my daughter's dresses to trace an outline of the dress I wanted to create. I cut up the sheet and tee shirt and made sure I had plenty extra in case I messed up.

 I took the tee shirt and ironed creases in it and made a make shift binding. I pinned it to the top, bottom and arm holes. I sewed it on with black thread on my sewing machine.

 This is what each side looked liked before I sewed them together.

And this is what it looked like when I finished. She was really happy that I had made her something.