Sewing up a storm

The day job is done for the season and now I have a lot of time on my hands.  I've already done the whole cleaning & purging, which is easier done when nobody else is home; and I did my fair share of couch sitting.  It was during a cleaning/purging session in my sewing area, that inspired me to pull the sewing machine out again after a few years.  I was going though my fabrics and scraps deciding what I wanted to keep and what could be donated.  Originally I was going to donate all my juvenile prints to a local charity to make baby clothes, but after a day or two I started to think about it and decided that there was still enough there for me to do something with it.

That's when I made this cute little bubble dress.  It's 100% made from fabric and materials I already had.  It's 2T and listed in the shop for $30.  I can make this style from 2T to size 8.

The next project I did was this hobo style bag for my daughter.  I was looking online at fabric and ran across this Michael Miller print on eBay.  She fell in love with it.  This project was a little more involved, since I had to go buy supplies for it, but both of us are very happy with the results.  The straps are made from an old pair of jeans I had in my stash of up-cycled fabric.

Since I still had some of the fabric left from the bag, I thought I'd make her a matching fabric bracelet.  I let her pick out the strip she wanted and whipped this up in about 10 minutes.  Super simple project, especially since the batting and interfacing was already attached.  I just had to cut it to size and sew it together.

 And I still had enough left over to make this make-up bag.  Three projects from 1 yard of fabric.

This next one was a fun little project for an internet friend.  She posted on Facebook how she needed a super hero cape (and what mom doesn't)  for when she played dress up with her son.  The fleece blanket tied around her neck just wasn't cutting it.  She wanted pink & sparkly, so when I walked into the fabric store and found the sparkly organza on sale I knew it would be prefect for her.

And in between all this sewing I managed to finish a knitting project too.   This cowl is perfect for dressing up up an ordinarily outfit and keeping the winter chill out. It's listed in the shop for $43.00.