I love this thing called sewing!

I was a little under the weather Friday with a super fun stomach bug (blech), so I wasn't able to go out of town with hubby and Ben for my SIL's graduation party.  I was pretty bummed, but we get to go back this weekend to see her actually graduate!  Yay!  

Once I was feeling better on Saturday, I got to sewing.  I sewed and I sewed...and I sewed some more!  Addie was pretty content to sit by mama and watch me sew/chew on her hands/sleep a lot (she's on a nap schedule now, yippee!) so I had a lot of time this weekend to get things done.  

I don't know why I haven't attempted sewing before now.  It's the greatest thing ever!  You take some fabric and you turn it into something cute.  All by yourself!  And a dress you make is so much better than a dress you buy.  Who woulda thought?!  Anyway, here's what I did because show and tell makes it so much more fun:

 

The line-up - most of it.

  

My first pants

 With a matching paci clip

 

I forgot to get a picture of my camera strap before I reattached it to the camera and I am NOT going through that hassle again, so here's the best I could do.

 

Funny story: I ordered this fabric to make cornices for above our curtains in our master bedroom.  I loved it so much that I couldn't resist using it on clothes instead.  When hubby came home last night and saw that I'd used this fabric, his exact words were, "You have a problem."  :)  I do.

 

Matching burp cloth and a flower with a yet-to-be-determined purpose.  It'll either get sewn onto the dress or become a headband.  Thoughts?

 

I made these yoga pants out of my favorite pair of  PJ pants I've ever had.  I got them a few weeks before we got married and wore them into the ground.  They had holes everywhere, but I salvaged enough good fabric to turn them into pants for Addie.  They really are even at the bottom, even though they don't look like it.

 

These turned out the worst of anything.  Fine for lounging, though.

 

My favorite!  I made these the same way as the first pair of pants I made, but I cropped them and sewed ruffles onto the bottom to make them ruffle capris.  

 

My second favorite.  Love this fabric!

 

I made this flower out of the aforementioned yoga pants.  Then I just hand-sewed it on.  Cuteness.  

Addie and I made another trip to Hobby Lobby today to get some boy fabric.  Next up: a messenger bag, some PJ shorts and a pair of nice pants for Ben and a few things to give to friends/family.  :)  

Fun stuff.

Sew crafty.

I thought I'd up the corny ante a little.  Should I keep going and see if the next blog title could get cornier?  Anyway.

I decided that I'd learn to sew this week.  It's about time.  I've had this sewing machine sitting around since October and the only thing I've sewn so far are curtains.  And even that (the easiest thing ever, I've been told) I did horribly wrong.  Somehow I ended up with curtains that were way too short.  So much so that I had to make cornices to go over the top so we could lower the curtains.  Well then.

I started with some baby washcloths.  Those turned out awful.  I was trying to use up some old velour pants and I thought they'd be great as one side of a baby washcloth, but, er, not so much.  I guess I should have known that velour is difficult to sew.  They were a disaster.  I almost quit.  But then I came across something called the ten minute onesie dress.  Okay, this I could do.  Anyone can do it.  And then there was the ruffle butt onesie.  I don't have a serger or pinking shears so I had to do it a little differently (and a little less cute), but I still love the results. 

 

I added a little rosette because I'm kind of obsessed into those right now.  

So I thought, hey, that was fun!  Let's do some more!  So I went to Hobby Lobby last night and I was in serious crafter's heaven.  I was there for a really, really long time.  And then today I dove right in and whipped up a whole ensemble!  

I did the dress a little differently with elastic around the waist instead and I like it much better.  I sewed some extra fabric onto a burp cloth and made a rosette for the onesie and a rosette headband.  And then I found matching ribbon so of course I had to learn to make hairbows.  Little Addie Bear agreed to be my model.

Ain't she a peach?

Fist bumpin', ya'll.  It's how we do.
  (I promise to be done with my southern throwback now.)

Adalyn's favorite part is chewing on the end of the skirt.  Seriously, it's all she does.  I guess I can market it as a teether/dress?

Oh boy, watch out world!

Chelsea's sewing!

This sewing machine has been sitting in the box for about two months now. I'm a slacker! Plus I was just scared and overwhelmed to start. The whole threading thing just seemed beyond me, so I was waiting for my mom to come to town so she could help me. Then I had some time on my hands today and thought, what the heck? Might as well try, right? I learned two things:

1. Apparently sewing machines come with manuals and they teach you how to thread. Who knew?!

2. I married a man who knows sewing machines. How didn't I know that? I'm all, "Argh, I can't figure out how to thread this stupid bobbin. Here's what the manual says..."

And then he's all, "Oh, you just do this and this and this..." while threading the bobbin for me.

Then I'm all, "How do I do the reverse sewing thing?"

And he's all, "Just hit this lever."

What?!