A few little in-the-hoop for a crochet friend

This was a great fun little In-The-Hoop Project that has 6 pockets inside and a working zipper to hole crochet needles. My friend is always loosing them I hope this helps her keep them save and happy ready to use.

My Not To Costly Labor Of Love Quilt

This is a quilt 100"x 82"  made from scarp 

old pairs of jeans cut up into 5" squares  cost free.

Craig s List Fabric found very cheaply $4.00 cut into 5" squares

Red boarder was maybe a cost of $4.00

Backed with a King size new microfiber (no batting) for $25.00

I may bind this or leave the serged edges still deciding on this. feel free to share your input with me.

A Small Free Motioned Baby Doll Quilt

Wow how funny a year in ones life can be so different than the 39 years before it. I would not of along with everyone around me, even come close to thinking I would be sewing away baby quilts. I am thinking there will be a lot more to come as I found it a great way to learn my free-motion designs too.   I am pleased at how this came out minus after binding it all I could think of was a place mat. hahhaha! Lets just hope the little  4 year old girl that gets it she will love it. 

A Fun Small Stash Score!

How cool is this 20 Fat Quarters  some great new thread.  

I Love Mail Art & Love Fabric Art Postcards Combine The 2 Loves

This is an in the hoop postcard that I was playing with and soon I will be digitize my own designs and would love to show them with you all. leave comments or keep an eye out for the soon to come post about how too get some of my own machine embroidery designs. I am working hard to learn the ins and outs of digitizing.

I Got My Perfect Rolled Hem Down. Time To Fashion Play.

Those that know me well know even after I donated my kidney and was in the hospital the first thing I asked for and put on was my Bandanna.  I am always wearing them and always looking for new ones that match shirts jackets and such. Now the world of fabric is at my fingertips to make any style I want! That’s what makes this project a big deal to me.

 Well here is my finally got it perfect 3 thread rolled hem set to 1.5 for me to make my own bandanna’s! on my huskylock s25

Here is the finished product sorry for my mug shot however I couldn't figure out how else to show the completed project. and pic was taken at 6:30 am and I am not the best morning person. Had to get moving for work!

For The Holidays My First Set of Stockings All 9 of Them!

I am sure there is an easier way than I did these however they are here finished and lovely. The family hit this year.  Each one made with 4 layers matching cotton patterned to the persons love in life or something that made me think of them in found memory and smile.

If you are a sewer reading this you know the addiction states we all need more than one machine to do things on. this are put together with My Topaz , Embroidery done on my Ruby, and tops of the all serged on my 25s serger. Yes I am a Viking sewing nut. I also newly have an Emerald 116 all mechanical zero computer anything I Love too.

A Cute Fun Little Bag Purse Made From Jeans and Scraps

A friend at work had faith in me and ask me to make her great 4 year old a bag like others she had seen I had made (sorry no pics.)  She gave me a pair of her out grown jeans and I added some scrap fabric for the lining and the belt to come up with this cute little bag. Made with the help of my beautiful amazing  Aussie Love  while we  where on Skype. She is amazing in all the help love and support she shares. We are a great team together!

Fabric Rope Bowl Making Fun.

Me on my Ruby creating my first fabric rope bowl for fun and learning. I have to share this was very much so a lot of fun.

The finished product which is made from some cotton quilting scraps just laying around and some cotton cloths line.  If you want to try and have not tried these yet. I'll recommend a #4 zigzag and a new needle slow speed and I used a Teflon foot with a red dot in the center kept me going without a missed stitch.

My Jacket With My first Digitized Own Work On it.

This is a denim thrift store jacket that  I put my first digitized embroiderer work that is all mine original work. Plus I added a cutting of words off from a thrift store tee shirt I found and thought would fit the jacket.

I am always happily surprised when I get compliments on this.  I have done a lot of commercial Urban Threads and other designs all over my hoodies as well.  I love to customize things to fit me for fun creative and originality sake.

Another Quilt Made For A Friends Wedding.

This is a labor of love the first thing made on my Ruby. I made and did some embroiderer on for my friends wedding gift than got sick and did not make the wedding and we are still trying to get together to gift it to her.. I have made a couple more quilts before this yet I can not find pics so please just trust and have faith more to come.

Here Is The Quilt That Started It All

My first quilt I made for my mothers Birthday. Its a made from a Bali Pop and  a sheet from something I found for backing material. I used natural batting in the middle. I am still proud of it and mom loves it.  No matter what I sew she says that's nice but mine was the first and the best. I can't believe your sewing these days.  Moms are great!

The Big Answer To "Why or How Did You Start Sewing?"

Hey now you never should judge any book by its cover! I am a bad ass marshmallow that looks to tough and punky to sew. I assure you my passion runs deeply for my sewing and I a may not be the best or greatest at it however I try like hell and love every stitch along the way.  So here is the deeply dark secrets of how it all really started. Beware if you decide to continue to read this.

Well its really simple with some complexity that got me started in all and those that sew know that rest of the story before I even share that.  Well the facts are that my mom's Birthday was coming up and I needed to figure something out. She loves Amish quilts and I had gotten one years ago. Now they are a bit out of my price range so to speak.  I had picked up a Viking Topaz about 3 years prior for something that never worked out so it sat in the closet. Well hmmm... I can do anything I want to and set my mind to I will make my mom a quilt myself! Yhep how hard could it be really.... ????
Off I went to a fabric shop got some fabric read a bunch of stuff and there we go. I tested my machine and learned to sew really fast with that help of a great beautiful in Australia who wrote me directions and helped me along the way to make a Bag for at the time My greatest friend and so much more at the time. The bag came out however in looking back if there way one thing in my sewing world I could change it would be to go back and remake that make with the skill set I have now. That bag is the one thing that got me started and I hold tightly to the great feelings and proud glow Lane and I shared that we melted away the miles of the ocean that separates us and in the end it was a bag for my greatest loved friend at the time. Moving along  now to make the quilt it worked and I made I quilt for my mom!!

WOW Yes I did it every night after work sew sew sew away and yes at the end a quilt was made!  A nice quilt one to be proud of still.  That was almost a year ago now.  Smiles!

Somewhat of a tragedy blow struck me slowing yet inevitable with the environment we shared together The greatest friend I made the very first bag for well things went south and our lives are so very different and we began to spiral downhill into a massive dark sadness  filled with numerous irreconcilable differences my heart shattered and my world filled with the loss of great love and friendship floating away out to sea to sail in different direction. What the hell does this have do with sewing at all.....

Sewing became my escape! Sewing is very therapeutic meditative almost magic. I found if I sat at my machine and sewed did not matter what even if I destroyed the fabric and made nothing of use I still was ok no darkness no sadness in that moment the sewing machine hummed and the fabric moved through my hands and things where created with success. It was like magic almost like a drug that washed away any all stress worries and sadness.  The addiction was born and I began seeking out classes in places I never thought I would be hanging out.  Some places and people even looked at me strange including my family in shock "you sew." I stuck it out and almost had and perhaps still do attitude "I WILL SHOW YOU!"

Now you all know the story how a new addiction and my great love of sewing was born. I am not afraid to reinvent myself and now through sewing my life is being reinvented for me along the way of my journey of life I am more than grateful to be living today. Thank You for sharing in my new life as it blooms.  May you all  enjoy the passions you have and please feel free to share with me and perhaps we all can create together!