Lazy Bones!

Man have I been lazy with my blog this school year. We have been crazy busy at our house. With 4 kids in school, 3 with homework, 3 sports at the same time, me working at Addies preschool 3 days a week, church and life! This holiday season I tried to slow things down a little. Instead of making plates full of goodies I only made caramel sauce (heaven in a jar). I did a first for me and said "no" when asked to sing at the ward Christmas party (it was a week away). I instead helped my friends make quilts for another friend. I have a friend with breast cancer. She wanted to make a quilt for each of her 5 children for their first born children. The week after Thanksgiving I gathered fabric from my quilting friends. Two quilters were generous enough to offer to quilt them for free! We got together twice a week and worked on these quiltes. I spent a lot of time sewing. I put the binding on most of them. It took a lot of time. It was SOOOO worth every minute. It was the best thing I have ever done in the month on December. We went over to her house yesterday and gave her all the finished quilts. We helped her wrap them and put them under the tree. We were all reminded how precious our families are, how important our health is to us and what great friends we have. So my excuse for not blogging? I was busy creating memories for a family going through a difficult time!

Eenie Meenie Miney Moe

Which bag do you think I should sew?



I try to be a little bit practical when I make these bags. I try to put dark colors on the bottom so they don't look dirty quite as fast. Yet, I really like the brown top with the blue bottom. What do you think? I had enough fabric to make both, so I did! Yesterday was Easton's first day of kindergarten. He goes from 12:30-3:30 (which is Addie's nap time). 3 hours of no kids means I made these yesterday and cleaned my kitchen. Today I am cleaning (deep cleaning) my bedroom! I am going to try to deep clean one room or closet everyday and sew/scrapbook/craft something fun! I am sure I will throw in a little blogging on the side!

New yummy bag

Just finished sewing this new diaper bag...loved the fabric and couldn't resist...guess it will go in my box waiting for a friend to have a baby!
This green is the interior...loved the combination of the two fabrics (they are from the same line because I am terrible at picking fabric to coordinate! Simple bag...took me maybe 2 1/2 hours with cutting time!

Cleaning the sewing room!

I had some leftover fabric from the diaper bag, so I decided to make a wipes/diaper case. It holds 2-3 diapers and the box of wipes. I don't have the diapers all the way in the case in the picture above. It then Velcro's shut! I put that in with the diaper bag for a great little gift!

It was so quick and easy that I made 4 more with fabric I had leftover from other projects. I just hate leftover fabric, can't stand to throw it away! I made two of the blue ones, another red red one, and the black toile! I put the blue one in a diaper bag I made for my other friend out of matching material! So the three in this picture are all either going in my box of gifts to give away or they are for sell. If anyone want one I will sell them for $7! If you buy a diaper bag they will only be $5, and if you want me to make one with different fabric they will be $7 if you supply the fabric, or $10 if I supply the fabric! These are $7 just cause I already had the fabric, it was scrap fabric and I was just playing around to get my sewing room cleaned out a bit!

I also ended up making some taggie blankets. Little 12x12 blankets with different ribbons on them. Kids love the textures. Here is the back of one.....
and here is the front...in a yummy little shade of purple. The fabric is oh so soft!
I did another in this backing with a front in a yummy yellow! Again used scrap fabric. The cost for these will be $15 for me to sew when I purchase the fabric, $10 if you supply the fabric, and these two shown here are $7, again because it was scrap fabric I had that I wanted to use up! And if you want me to show you how to make any of these let me know! They were super easy!

Love that Bag

After many requests here is the information about the diaper bag. The pattern I used was F868 by Sew Baby. When you go into JoAnn Fabrics there are patterns on racks that spin. That is where this pattern was hanging. I have loved this pattern and have modified it each time I make it! I have probably made 10-15 of these for different friends and have even sold a few! If you are interested I will do a little sewing class in my home to teach anyone how to make it....or I am willing to sew one for you. Depending on the cost of your fabric, I would probably charge $40 if I provide the fabric. If you want to purchase fabric then the cost would be cut down considerably. I also have diaper wipe case covers which match the diaper bags and hold 2-3 diapers and the case of wipes. I just can't get the picture to load right now. The fabric requirements for this bag are great....just 1 yard each of two different fabrics...which means realistically you could spend $5-10 on fabric. Let me know if you either want a bag made or to take a class here at the house (I won't charge you for the class).

Diaper Duty

There is a baby shower for my friends new baby tonight....a boy...so i whipped up this diaper bag this morning...it is reversible....each picture shows the different sides....but I prefer to keep the pockets (red with paisley strip in the middle) on the inside and have the red with the black ribbon on the outside. Love how easy this pattern is and that I can get fabric according to the friends personality!