Check out my two new project albums. I have one for the pillow cases I have just finished as gifts for Christmas for my family. These pillow case were easy AND quick to do! The hardest part was picking out fabrics from my stash. I'm trying very hard this year to whiddle down the "stash". I think of it as recycling! I know, I know, I haven't made anything with these fabrics before but I've had some of them for so long that I've handled, ironed, folded and organized these fabrics so many times that it does feel like I'm recycling them. I'm sure there are more than a few of you who know exactly what I'm talking about! I have added little captions to each of the pictures to give you a little infomation.
When my oldest daughter got past her teen years and started taking an interest in my thimble collection, she decided she wanted to collect thimbles as well. Problem was that she thought she could just pick through mine! Wouldn't that be an easy way to collect thimbles...........cheaper too!! Wherever we went, we would look for thimbles for her collection and somehow, I seemed to be the only person at the cash register at checkout time. Then, because I'm a big tea drinker, I started collecting a few teapots here and there and low and behold, so did my daughter. Imagine that! The point to this story is that I've decided that since she is a pastry chef, I am going to make an apron for her of every panel apron that I find. An apron collection of her very own! Too bad I didn't think of this during my recent trips to St. Louis, Nashville and Houston but better late than never! Check out my new photo album called "Aprons" to see the first one I completed the other day. I lined it with a fabric from the same fabric collection as the apron panel and using the same lining fabric added some ruffles to the bottom and top and embroidered her name on with my new fancy, dancy sewing/embroidery machine. I digitized her name in my digitizing software in no time at all and used a blendable thread. Cute, isn't it!!
I hope you look forward to whatever new additions I make to the Apron album as I go in seach of new apron panels. I have found another panel and hope to work on it next weekend. I'm pleased that I got as much done this past weekend as I did. I feel a great sense of accomplishment. What a nice way to start out my week......did some sewing and made Christmas presents at the same time, mostly from fabric I already had. Can't beat that combination!!
My friend Will brought me back some thimbles from jolly old England to add to my collection! What a guy!!
Happy sewing,
loreen
Very cool projects, my friend. Can't wait to see you again. Perhaps soon?
xoxo
Deece
Posted by: Donna Liljegren | November 09, 2009 at 12:21 AM