Christmas Eve PJs

One of our family traditions is opening one gift on Christmas Eve. My parents did this with my sister and I, and we've carried it on. However my husband and I streamlined this a little bit by always giving the same gift; pjs to wear that night. :)

Sometimes they have matching pjs, sometimes not. This year I decided to go with matching, because it's been a couple years since we've done it this way.

I found a super cute penguin flannel at JoAnns, and bought was I thought was "more" than enough, and ended up only having about 2 inches left over. :/ At least there was enough though, and I didn't have to hunt down more. I used a different, matching, color of cotton/lycra jersey to make shirts for each of them, so they match, but not too much so. Cortney has pink, Ryley has red, Jacob has green and Jordan has orange.



Please ignore all the string on the floor. It makes the sewing room feel a little more used if I leave them there. :p

Blocked no more!

I think I finally got over the sewing block, now I just need to get over the picture taking block. lol I've sewn 4 shirts for myself and 7 cloth diapers in the last week, but I haven't photographed a single thing yet. I cut out a pair of pjs for my 7 year old, but I haven't gotten around to actually sewing them yet, but I'm going to try to get that done today. And I'm hoping to convince my DH to play photographer, so I can get some pictures updated.

So what have all of you been sewing recently, and are good sharing photos of your latest work?

Sewing block?

If writers can get writing block, does that mean that sewers can get sewing block? I think it must be possible, because it's happening to me. I want to sew, really I do. But I walk into the sewing room, see all the fabrics, look through all the patterns, then uninspired, I walk back out of the sewing room. Anyone know how to cure sewers block?

another Soap Nuts giveaway!

Passionate Homemaking is doing another giveaway for Soap Nuts, only this time it's a liquid version!! To be entered you just need to go the the website and leave a comment, and then for a second entry just blog about it.

A few more burp cloths and an outfit

Here's another outfit with a matching bib (pattern here) that I made today. I really need to just wait until it's daylight outside before taking these pictures, but I never remember until it's dark, but I hate the horrible lighting. Anyone one know of a good, and cheap, artificial light setup for photos?

And here's 6 more of the burp cloths that I shared yesterday. I really, really can't believe how fast and easy these are to sew. I can see myself making loads of these when I want to sew, but don't know what to sew.

Burp cloths, receiving blankets and onsies

A friend of mine posted a link to this free New Conceptions burp cloth pattern, and I decided to try it out yesterday.....

LOL I *LOVE* simple and quick projects, and this is both simple and quick, so I made up 10 of them and still have 5 more cut out. I used flannel as the top layer and organic bamboo fleece as the bottom layer. There's also 2 receiving blankets I made, one is done just by serging the edges and one done with mitered corners. Serging is definitely quicker, but I like te look of the mitered corners better.

Here's a few onsies I made yesterday as well. The 3 on the left are made using Kwik Sew 2433, and the 2 on the right are from Ottobre 5-06. the Kwik Sew pattern seems to run wide, but maybe I just don't remember how chubby babies can be. ;)

A sweet newborn outfit...

I made this sweet newborn outfit for a very dear online friend of I mine who's expecting a little girl. I'm super pleased with how it turned out, and I hope she loves it.

Gown and hat are kwik-sew patterns, and dipe is a very baby fitted.

I really want to sew, but....

my sewing room is a disaster!! I have several projects that I need to get done, including my sisters b-day present. (her b-day was last Tuesday :S ) I just can't do anything in the room when it's that bad, and unfortunately I know I can't, because it gets that bad frequently.

Anyone want to help clean this mess up??? LOL

Okay, I guess I'll have to tackle the mess on my own. Hopefully I'll get it done tonight....

I love giveaways!

A friend of mine posted about this giveaway on her blog, and I just had to enter. Passionate Homemaking is doing a giveaway for twenty 5 load samples of soap nuts. I've heard of soap nuts before, and I'd like to try them, but I've never quite gotten around to it. This giveaway seems like the perfect opportunity for me (or maybe you, if you enter too) to have a chance at trying them out for FREE! I love free things, don't you?

A slew of new shirts and single skirt, all for me!

Here are the shirts and skirt that I made yesterday. All the shirts are from ottobre 2-2007, and the skirt is just a self-drafted yoga waist skirt.

All of these fabrics are bamboo jersey. I absolutely *LOVE* my bamboo fabrics, you'll never find anything that feels so yummy against your skin. :)

In order, there's one more of the modified Rose tops (different sleeves, and knit band), the shirt in the first picture and the green and purple one here are both actually Rose tops too, I just changed the neckline and sleeves, then there's 2 tank tops.