Happy Birthday Tony.
Thanks for being the loving teddy bear that you are to your family. Thanks for choosing to be part of our family and loving our daughter and grandchildren like you do. It warms the heart.
Happy, happy birthday to you this day. We are thinking about you and hoping you are being treated like a king today.
What could be made of wood, the color red, black glaze and made with lots love????
You are right………another bench!!!!
We are anxious to deliver this special order bench and know that its new home will give it great love.
I LOVE these little aprons. I got my idea off of the Pinterest website…they were for big aprons…I just wanted to make little aprons.
They are so easy and fun to make. I took all of Dick’s old jeans and cut off the back pockets then each leg makes an apron. Pretty simple…take bias tape and sew on for the straps , add any kind of embellishments around the bottom of the apron. I am a ruffle girl and so all my aprons have ruffles.
I use my serger on all of the raw edges on everything I sew as I like the “finished look” on my sewing items. For my ruffles I cut strips of fabric 3” wide (I use two 3”x44” strips for my aprons), using the rolled hem on the serger, I edge each side of the strip so it has a neat, clean finish.
Take the pocket and center it on your apron where you would like it to be then sew it on.
There are two ways to make the ruffle (1) the traditional way of making gathering stitches (2 or 3 rows) then pulling the under side thread (bobbin thread) to the desired length or (2) using a gathering foot (I call it a pleater) and let the machine make consistant pleats on your strip of fabric (love this way and I only use the pleater since discovering it). Sew the gathered ruffle on the edge of the apron and you are done.
I finish off my bias with “fray check” which stops the edges from raveling when it is washed. I use this on all of my ribbons that have raw edges.
Here are the aprons I did today.
This pocket had a smear of paint on it and just a little bit of ruffle covered it up and we were good to go….
Evan Makell Madsen (1 hour old Nov 9, 2005)
Oh how I love this little baby girl. She won my heart at first site six years ago and we did bond real fast.
She has many nicknames such at Missy Muffet, Heavenly Evan, Punkin and Evie Girl. She answers to any of them and just giggles. Our little neighborhood kids call her Heaven or Evie and they are so excited when she comes to play.
Evan is a great helper and always wants to be your helper girl when she comes. Sometimes we cook, sometimes we do office work, sometimes she goes outside and helps Gramps in the shop and sometimes we sew. She has her own scissors and cuts fabric only from the garbage can and she puts pins in the pin cushion. She has lots of fun helping Grandma and Grandpa.
Tomorrow, on her birthday, we get to spend the entire day with her and boy are we excited.
We love our Evie Girl and are so thankful she is part of our family. Happy Birthday sweet six year old!
I am addicted to Pinterest!!!! and I love this web site. I have gotten tons of ideas from it and have made many items since becoming a Pinterest addict.
I have decided that I will post one thing each week that I have made from Pinterest.
This week I want to show you the ear warmers that I have been making these past few days. It took me three tries before getting the pattern like I wanted it to look like and now I am able to continue with making tons of them. I even was smart enough to cut the pattern down to make little girls sizes. Notice my adorable model and the color of yarn she picked out for hers.
Thanks Evie for being my helper this weekend and modeling these fantastic ear warmers. She wore her ear warmers all day on Saturday.
This has been a fun item to make from my Pinterst searching.
This cute little skirt was so fun to make…So cute with the pink and lime green. The hot pink bow and lime green button just set it off.
This is an apron that I made from a pair of old jeans. They are so simple and fun. The apron is cut from the lower leg, you cut off the pocket, cut out the back of the pocket and sew it on the apron. I love ruffles so all my aprons have ruffles on them. I had made one earlier today (my first one) and the lady next door came over just as I was coming downstairs to tag it and bought it so I ran back upstairs and made this one. The one she bought had lime green bias tape and the lime/pink ruffle from the skirt. It was so popping cute!!!
I have made four of these dresses for Quilted Bear. I fell in love with the fabric and had the ruffle fabric here at the house from another project I had finished. Way to cute!!!
Dick finished this desk and two night stands for our neighbors. They are done in a chocolate brown. I did not get a picture of the night stands before they took them home today.
This johnny closet was refinished for a woman in Layton. She had the piece and after buying two of our pieces wanted Dick to refinish this one for her. She is putting different knobs on it when she gets it installed in her bathroom.
Remember this piece that Dick found at DI….
Well it has gone from the original color to brown and now to black. This is for the same woman in Layton. Hope she likes the new color.
Well I have got to get back to my sewing. Have another special order for a denim apron and a Spiderman cape.
Dick is busy working on this project…
He has to rebuild two of the drawers before he can start painting it. That should keep him busy for a few days.
