Here's my follow-up from the wonderful hours of peaceful~quiet I enjoyed on New Year's Day. In case you missed it, go here and then come back.
First I had to change gears a bit on my project list because I couldn't find my rotary cutter. A modern quilter just doesn't do well without a rotary cutter and a decent blade in said cutter. So I had to think of what could be done, so that I could claim something "finished" with just scissors. Can't ya just hear Winnie-The-Pooh saying "think, think, think."?
The first Christmas in this house I picked up a pair of PJ bottoms for hubby. I don't think he really ever liked them, but at least they were worn. Then one day, the outside of one of the legs rips. Of course it's not a nice clean rip of the seam. Nope, it sorta frayed along the long. Um, to the craft room they went for repair. Here's a picture of them. If you look close at the non-flat leg, you can see the whole that is the rip.
At this point I knew I wasn't going to repair them for hubby, but find another frugal use for them. So this one pair of PJ's becme 14 napkins. Yup, 14 napkins and that includes the pockets that also became napkins. They aren't all the same size, nor shape, but they can sure wipe milk off of a kids face!! And therefore they have finally found their purpose!! 
Before I show you the finished napkins from the PJ's, let me tell you what I did when I found the bottoms of jeans that were made into cut-off shorts. Yup, you guessed it ~ MORE NAPKINS. First I found one leg behind my sewing machine and went, um, napkin anyone? Then as I was putting more fabric away, I discovered more leg bottoms and made them into napkins too. Sewing on demin was an experience. I went through 2 needles during my napkin making frenzy. One needle became bent due to the demin hump at the seams. And I broke another one. The one I broke I had to really work to retrieve the actual needle point out of the fabric. And I also went through 3+ bobbins of thread. It's a good thing I had re-learned how to do up a bobbin on Chrismtas Eve. Yes, I had forgotten - it's sad, so very, very sad. 
Here's the finished product of the 14 napkins from the PJ bottoms , including 14 demin napkins.
The plaid napkins in the front are from the PJ's
So remember all you mom's out there with boys (I can't speak for little girls) that get holes in their jeans long before they actually wear out the jeans. Make them into cut-off shorts and the leg bottoms into napkins. Then as you sit back and watch your little ones (and maybe the big ones too) wipe milk and cookies from their face, you'll have the pleasure of being FRUGAL. 
Update: I forgot to include a picture of the apron that I put together on New Year's Day. This was left over from last years Sewing Club we had as part of the Homeschool Co-Op. For some reason I missed this particular class, but the teacher was kind enough to allow me the opportunity to cut out my apron. It's only taken almost a year to put it together.
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