Yippy!! I am back at the sewing machine! and it feels soooo good. :) LOL.
I've started working on a tree skirt that my step-mom started with my SIL and I last year. I actually didn't start it until yesterday, but she gave me all of the fabric for it. I don't have the pattern... though I thought I could remember it. Now that I'm getting farther along I realize that I really have no idea what I'm doing. haha. I have the basics done, but now I have so much blue fabric that I don't know what I'm supposed to do with it, and I'm stumped. Guess that won't get finished today... I'll take a picture tomorrow and post it sometime. ;) (I want to see how much life is going to let me back to the computer before I commit to anything.)
Onto my next project that I'm really excited for...
Elizabeth from Oh Fansson! shared this on Sew Mama Sew! in July. I love it! :) And can't wait to get started. I am now really glad I bought some Christmas fabric months back... though I only have 9. Hopefully I can find 3 more patterns in my other stash of fabric. :)
I also found another tree skirt from Amy Butler that I LOVE! One day when I have a super nice tree I will have to make this one. Find the free pattern here.
***SECRET PROJECT***
I also have another project I've found that I will have to post later... it's going to be a Christmas gift, so I don't want to give away any surprises. Now to figure out what to give with it... hum.
Recently my boys have been wrecking my sewing machine. They broke the removable table thing that gives you more sewing surface, which luckily I was able to jimmy rig it. I also noticed two days ago a bunch of scribbles all over the front of it. Oh boy. I'm hoping that if I make a cover for it, they'll also stop playing with all the knobs. haha. (Let me just tell you that my machine is very old and very temperamental. They always adjust tension, and no matter how much I fiddle with it to get it back where it should be, it doesn't work unless I let the thing sit for a day or two. And all of a sudden, presto. Tension is perfect again. Can anyone explain that?!) ;)
I'm using this tutorial for the basics,
but instead of the patch work I'm going to use this tutorial to make it more scrappy.
I have a LOT of scraps, along with lots of triangles and such. We'll see how it turns out. SO excited!
What projects do you have to keep you busy this Christmas? :)
Picture links
Advent calendar: http://sewmamasew.com/blog2/?p=863
Personalized Tags: http://sewmamasew.com/blog2/?p=10388
Sewing Machine Cover: http://sewmamasew.com/blog2/?p=826
Scrap Buster Blanket: http://sewmamasew.com/blog2/?p=2311
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