Jul. 23, 2009 My Crafty Crafters
My Darling Daughters have become quite the crafters. Darling Daughter Number One have been making re-usable shopping bags and quilted purses. She started with my birthday present and now is being asked by others to make them bags. I love these things. They will hold 2 gallons of milk or a whole watermelon. Not to mention they wash up wonderfully. I am quickly running out of plastic shopping bags, thanks to these!
Quilted Purse
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Dec. 5, 2007 Wonderful Place For Homemade Gift Ideas
Over at Kisses of Sunshine, they are having an outstanding homemade gift idea exchange. I cannot enter because all the gifts we are making are for presents this year, but I did not want you to miss out on all the ideas. So I thought I would post the link so you can hop over and get some fun ideas for this year. I cannot wait to sit for a few moments and share the ideas with my children. I think we may be increasing our Christmas crafting a bit... |
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Oct. 15, 2007 Our Crafting Girls Weekend
| We had a great time at our crafting girls weekend! Check out the slide show in my Side Bar. We had the chance to learn a lot about how to use the different oven baked clays. Of course, now the girls want to run to the store and pick up clay. I told them that we need to wait until we have good 50% of coupons at all the stores. I am glad that I have lots of wallpaper books and loads of journals and paper pads. We are going to have lots of fun! Hey Family! Don't be surprised by your gifts this year! |
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Sep. 25, 2007 More Sewing...
We finished school and hit the sewing machines again! My oldest completed one and a half pairs of capris today. I photographed one and the other she will finish tomorrow. She did this one all by herself. She even had to cut out the pattern and follow the directions.
They turned out very nicely except the seams were popping. I realized that when I was adjusting the stitch length for working with knit, I was adjusting the wrong thing. I remedied that and things should go much better tomorrow.
My ten-year-old daughter worked on a pair of capris, which should be completed tomorrow. We all decided around 5:30pm that we should stop and finish when we were feeling more "with it". When the oldest said, "things are just going down hill." I realized we better stop while we are ahead and no one is crying!
I did finish my boys silk pjs! They were quite happy with them!
And instead of taking my own advice, I continued sewing after they were in bed. I have been wanting to try a peasant skirt. Okay, I tried. Now, I am not a perfectionist and I never claimed to be. I like the "you can about tell" method. Well, "you can about tell" that this skirt is not going to fit my eight-year-old for very long...
She is the only one who can squeeze into it. It probably won't even fit their over-sized stuffed bear! I made her get out of bed to try it on. She loves it and will make it fit, no matter what! Does the blood have to circulate to the feet?
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Sep. 24, 2007 Our Sewing Day...
For the most part, our sewing day was a success! I would love to say we finished ten things but we only finished three. I am pleased, though. Not only did my two oldest daughters sew, well also started and completed school! I consider that a success!
My oldest daughter (almost twelve) made a gathered skirt. I let her do all of it. I only helped when she ran into trouble. I think she did a very good job. She is quite pleased (and has worn it all afternoon) What do you think?
My ten-year-old daughter helped me make my eight-year-old daughter's new pants. She helped with pinning and sewing, cutting and measuring (not necessarily in that order). She did a great job and was very patient while I was running around the table constantly. Do you think you will see these pants in a dimly lit hallway? I just couldn't resist!
And finally, my ten-year-old daughter got her skirt. She worked hard for it so I made sure we finished something for her, also. She has worn it up until I said she could get her suit on to go swimming. She is quite happy.
My little guys were pretty contented to just watch but my 6-year-old son wanted to "sew a bag". My eight-year-old daughter worked on her embroidery most of the time. I am thinking that tomorrow she will work on some machine sewing. I promised the boys some silk pj bottoms. Hopefully, that will happen tomorrow. We shall see!!
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