Crafty Part 2!

For some reason I wasn't able to post a pic of the entire outfit so I'm double posting. Anyhoo, she's planning on wearing it to school tomorrow but we'll see what happens. Elyse can be a bit of a p.i.t.a. in the a.m. but so can I unless I've had c.o.f.f.e.e. (doesn't stand for anything, just wanted to be funny).

Ok so now the easiest thing I've done lately was this super cute and easy scarf found on http://rufflesandstuff.blogspot.com/. I don't normally wear tshirts unless I'm working out and I certainly wasn't going to use one of those shirts as a scarf. Then I remembered I had some velvety knit fabric which was also grabbed from the remnant bin on one of my almost daily trips to the fabric store. I followed the tute and was rewarded with this lovely item in less than an hour:

I love it! I have a ton of wraps and scarves and I really enjoy wearing them. This is light weight enough to wear now (although not in today's 80 degree weather), but warm enough for an OC winter.

Last but not least, here is a little goody bag I made for my niece in honor of her very first Halloween:

Because I'm not obsessed enough with sewing, I went to Barnes & Nobles while waiting for E to get out of school. I saw a fun book about embroidery which I haven't done in YEARS. It had a ton of transfers so I bought it, picked up E, drove home quickly and got to work. The little bag is just purple felt and the orange polka dot lining is left over from a previous project. I ironed on the letters, embroidered over them, hot glued the pumpkin down and then embroidered that, then sewed on the black lace and handle. Cute cute cute!! Can I just tell you how satisfying it was to bust out a quick easy project like that?! Certainly helps pad the ego when there aren't any pattern instructions to muddle through.

Crafty Crafty Crafty!

I know everyone is just dyyyyyying to see the items I've painlessly (ha ha) whipped up. Here are a few:

Above is a skirt I sewed just today using a tutorial found on: http://http//www.christynelson.net/2009/06/make-free-skirt-pattern-pick-your-panels/

It was super easy to put together but then Elyse said it felt scratchy on the inside. Hmmm...I remember stashing a flannel sheet of hers that she'd decided to cut up with a pair of hidden scissors when she was supposed to be napping. I dug it out and used the same template to line the skirt which you can see here:




The hot pink sparkly fabric was nabbed from the remnant bin at JoAnns and the flower fabric was left over from another project. As mentioned, the lining was a sheet in its former life.

A skirt with colors as obnoxious as those needs a shirt to go with it, right? Right! So I traced a Hello Kitty from a coloring book onto some felt and embroidered the details.

VIOLA! The perfect outfit for an uber picky 4 year old princess!