Embroidered Wedding Gift

It's that time again. Wedding season is here. When I give gifts, I really like them to be practical, yet personal. A couple in our church recently got married but they had already established homes, so they weren't like a young couple that didn't have anything. I looked at their registry online to see their color choices and to see if that had a theme for their kitchen or bathrooms. I saw that she had chosen this shade of green as her color but had no real theme. I found some nice dish towels that I thought would  hold up pretty well. Then, I went to my stash and found this polka dot fabric but I only had a little bit. I looked at every quilt shop in my area for more but had no luck, so I found this green and black stripe that I thought coordinated pretty well. I took a premade white apron and added fabric trim, ruffles and a yo yo flower to jazz it up and make it match the dish towels. The apron was unisex size and I thought it was a little too long to be cute for a woman, so I shorted it by about 4' and added a trim to the bottom. Then I embroidered the bride's new last name. I know when I first got married, I loved seeing my new name in print, or in this case thread. I added a couple of oven mitts. I was going to add a trim to them, but because of the strange curve on them and the lack of polka dot fabric, I just left him plain. I purchase a metal basket that I thought would prove useful and placed the items in it before I wrapped it.

I think it came out pretty cute.

Happy Sewing!

Sewing Momma

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Free Sewing Machine Class

Craftsy is offering a free Sewing Machine 101 class. I have signed up but have not had a chance to watch it yet. I did watch the video advertisement and it looks great. Once you sign up for the class you can keep it as long as you want and watch over and over. It teaches how to trouble shoot and make minor repairs to your machine to keep it running great. They teach about vintage machines and modern computerized machines. It's certainly worth checking out.

Happy Sewing!
Sewing Momma

Organizing My Studio

These are my embroidery threads that live inside my large fabric cabinet. I organized them by brand, not color.

My Thread Stand with my sewing thread

These are my less frequently used threads that have to live in the Matchbox car case. This side is for the sewing thread.

This is the embroidery thread side.

Well, it's that time again. That's right, time to reorganized my studio. After completing several projects my studio was looking pretty messy. All of my threads were getting tangled up and I had thread tales reaching for my legs everytime I walked through the room. I had help from one of my trusty daughters. The entire room is looking great but I will just post photos of my pretty thread, all lined up in a sweet little row. Yes, it doesn't take much to make this girl happy. Ha ha.

I moved my cutting tables around to make room for a school area for my youngest daughter. She is nine and she still needs help and supervision with her school work, so I thought it would be good to have her school area in my studio. Then we can both be productive at the same time. All of my girls sew and she can easily put her sewing machine on her desk when she is finished with school. I'll be posting photos of her school area soon.

On today's agenda is working on my patriotic quilt. I am really being successful with using my stash and it's so exciting. I've been looking at my red, white and blue fabrics for years and I'm finally turning it into something. Yay!

I hope you have a wonderful and productive day.

Blessings,
Sewing Momma

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Baby Quilt and Another Finish

Wow! I've finished two quilts in two weeks. My goal  this year is to finish as many projects as I can and to use up a lot of  my stash. I found  a bag with some of these finished quilt blocks and matching fabric. I started this quilt several years ago for one of my children, I don't even remember which child. I love the fabrics, they are so bright and happy. I was able to whip up this baby quilt in a weekend. It feels so good to have another finish.

This afternoon I am going to begin a quilt for the 4th of July and YES, I am using fabric that I already have in my stash.

Have a great weekend and Happy Sewing,
Sewing Momma

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My Strings Quilt! A Finish!

One of my sewing goals for this year is to finish as many projects as possible and to use the fabric that I already have in my stash. I am very happy to say that I finished a scrap project that I started about 2 years ago. I made a Strings Quilt using scraps from dresses and projects that I have made for girls. I was also able to use scraps of batting that I have been accumulating. This project was so fun. I know there will be more of these in my future.

This quilt will definately stay in our family. My girls love picking out the the fabrics that are from their dresses, camera bags, tote bags, etc

Happy Sewing,
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