Sewtember Day Thirty - Quick re-cap

 Wow! How fast did Sewtember go!?! I'm totally overwhelmed by the number of things I didn't get done and still need to do, but I'm also really happy with the things I did do this month. Here is a quick run down of the things I finished over the last few weeks. Click on the link for each one to see the original post.

Rainbow quilt top 

I know it's only the top, but the top is finished! Actually, I just love it. One day I'll get around to finishing the rest of it.

 The zoo bag

Dolly Over-alls

Dolly shirt and skirt

It's a shame I didn't get to do faces. Maybe next month.

Test Dress

Quilted birthday cards

Wrap around shirt

Tardis Phone Cosy

Super hero cape

Place-mats

Thanks for joining me throughout this month. I hope you were all productive too. I'm looking forward to another Sewtember next year.

See you in SWAPtober!

Sweet Dreams!

Sewtember Day Twenty-Nine - Sleepy Saturday

B-man had the biggest sleep today! It might be related to his new tooth. He slept for close to 3 hours over lunch time, but then had a nap this afternoon for an hour or so too. I hope he sleeps tonight.

While he was sleeping my assistant was out helping Daddy in the garage, so I was left to get on with some sewing. My current project is coming along pretty well. I like it. Hubby thinks it's ok too, so it can't be too bad. Even getting a comment out of him is usually hard, so that's a good sign.

I can't really show you much from my work today though.

I hope you are having a great weekend! I can't believe there's only one more day of Sewtember. I'll need to  look back and see what I have actually achieved this month.

I'll see you tomorrow for a quick wrap up.

Sweet Dreams!

Sewtember Day Twenty-Eight - Better late than never

Sorry it's late, but we had a big storm last night and lost our internet connection. It was a long storm...lots of thunder for hours. We didn't lose power though, so that enabled me to keep working at the machine and I'm almost finished with another present. I can't show you much, but you can see a little bit of the process.

I'd love to tell you what it's going to be, because I'm totally excited at how cool it looks, even now, but I don't want to spoil it for the person who I give it to. You'll just need to hang out until Christmas to see it finished.

I chain-pieced all of the squares together so it was pretty quick. I might make something similar for a couple of the other gifts.

I'm thinking of doing this again, but with wrong sides facing, for awesome looking, quick bunting. I would iron them too...might have been a good idea to do that this time. Oops.

Anyway, I'll be back later on to let you know how I go today. I can't beliave it's the 2nd last day of "Sewtember" already! I need to start thinking about "Swaptober".

See you soon!

Sewtember Day Twenty-Seven - Getting things done. Or not.

The place-mats are finished! I really like them and I really don't know whether the person I made them for will. That's annoying. Anyway, here are some pics of the finished product.

I like how it looks on the back too.

Oh, I was so excited today to receive my first purchase from Spoonflower!

Cute hey?!

Have you ever been to checkout their website? I have spent many hours trawling through pages and pages of fabrics looking for...well, just looking really. Have I told you that eventually I want to design my own fabrics? Well, finding this company has just made me want it even more!

Having finished 2 projects this week, I'm becoming slightly more confident that I might actually get enough presents made for our whole family. I really don't want to shop for presents. Neither of us know what to get for people. We all have enough stuff, so whatever we give people needs to be special. And preferably "on special" if we end up buying something. So I've done at least one of the things on my list to give to our family, partly done a couple of others and only have about 23 to go....EEEK!! That's about 2.5 things per week. I know there are more weeks than that, but I also have 2 kids parties to plan and host, plus my own birthday, where I'll make myself a cake, maybe buy myself a flower and get a big hug and kiss from my family. Oh yeah, and I need to make a formal dress or 2. The other thing is that we celebrate Christmas at different times too, one of which is early in December, so some things need to be ready way before the others. I also know a bunch of people who are due to have babies in or around December, so I need to think about them too...ok, confidence gone. Oh well. Maybe when I finish something else it will be back to help me through.

I better go and get some more work done while the kids are both asleep, at the same time. Oh wait, nup not asleep any more. I better go.

Night!

Sweet Dreams!

Sewtember Day Twenty-Six - Short and sweet

Last night I showed you one of the place-mats turned the right way. Now they are all turned and I'm going to start "ladder stitching" the openings closed.

I actually like them more each time I look at them, which is a little unusual, but very confidence boosting.

Anyway, it's late and we've been out ALL DAY! I'm really tired and I need to sit down and do the hand stitching. I'll be back tomorrow.

Sweet dreams!

Sewtember Day Twenty-Five - Triumphant Tuesday

I got a fair bit done today. I even had the kids inside for most of it, which is different. I guess having my assistant occupied with small jobs like sorting my buttons into little jars really helps. What doesn't help is losing velcro! I really needed it to do something which took 4 minutes in the end, but over 2 hours was wasted looking for the velcro! Oh well, I still got stuff done, so that's the main thing.

The first thing I was working on was the cape for an order. You might have seen the "C" emblem in past posts. Well, now it's finished and in the bag ready for delivery. Woo! Here is a very quick how-to style run of pics from the next step.

Then turn through the opening at the curve and top-stitch around the whole cape.

Now try it out!

What do you think? My assistant thought it was pretty cool, so I deem it a success!

Ok, the next project for today was the flower place-mats I started a few weeks back. Here you can see where I was up to. And here is what I did today.

I think they're going to look really pretty when they're finished. Then I'll just need to wrap them.

Anyway, I'm off to watch something on TV, by myself! Hasn't happened for a while, and I'm sick of having to justify why I want to watch a particular show. I don't really care if someone else thinks it's lame. I like it.

I'll be back tomorrow with some more progress pics, I hope...

Sweet dreams!