Summer = Sewing

I still have a million and one things to blog about from the past few months, but this is an easy quick post.... and what I have been up to lately.


Information about online classes is available for people who love arts, crafts, and design, and
want to learn more. It is so enriching to learn from other people and
expand our knowledge about making beautiful things.

Ruffled Pillow Cover.

 I actually did a tutorial on this on the VS blog... check it out.

 Pretty sure it will not stay white for long in this house!

I got Graham some sheets at a garage sale and there was no pillow case but two top sheets, so today I quickly whipped up a pillow case out of the extra top sheet.

I made Graham these shorts because I got the fabric at fabric store for $1.10.  I used this tutorial. and added pockets... Only problem is I didn't follow my gut and make them a titch larger.. They are too narrow for Graham's liking so handed them down to Karson.. Hope they work for him...I have enough to make another pair...

Hoping to make the new ones tomorrow.

Next on the list was a cape for my boy.. he saw them at Six flags last week and I said NO WAY to buying one but I would make him one.... I loosely followed this tutorial... I did use her template for the batman emblem.

Cheesy happy boy.

Gwen, Made this head band

Emily made the Aqua one and I make the yellow one... I used a tutorial and can not find it at this moment. UGG.

WAY Over Due Bee Blocks

All three are made from vintage sheets.

This block is uber time consuming... Never will I make a whole quilt like this!

A cute little skirt for Scarlette... she is such a pain when I want to get a picture. 

Stinker!

Her skirt and a skirt for Gabby.

Hope to get more projects done in the next few days and a bunch of vintage sheets and other goodies added to the shoppe! I also added a few more Grad pictures to this post.

I was featured......

On one pretty thing.
Actually my tutorial for up cycling a child's t-shirt was featured. So exciting, I love One Pretty Thing, there are a TON of great tutorials and fab ideas from all over blog land.
It is so worth checking out and adding to your blog roll.

Have a great day.

Up Cycle a Childs T-Shirt Tutorial

This is my first tutorial, hopefully I will explain things properly.

Supplies Needed: T-shirt with a cute image that is too small for your child or stained but the image is still in good shape.
A new plainish T-shirt
Scissors
Pins
Sewing Machine
Coordinating thread

The hardest part of this project for me was finding T-shirts that were basic and inexpensive.
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Here is the finished product.
Graham was not being cooperative for the photo shoot.

Gwen in her finished shirt.
I purchased both shirts at Target, Gwen's was on clearance for $2.48. Grahams was $4.99

New T-shirt to be altered.
This was the most plain shirt I could find in Graham's size, seems like they all had pictures or pockets on them

Graham's old T-shirt that was too small.

Cut out the cute image, doesn't have to be perfect.

Pin image to new T-shirt. Pin well
***Make sure to only pin the image to the front of the T-shirt, other wise there will be no opening***

Gwen's shirt ready to be sewn.

As you can see, you can cut the image out in any shape.

Practice sewing on the left over parts of the old T-shirt so you can test your stitch length and tension. I used a Zig Zag stitch, but you can try out different stitches.

Once you have found your perfect stitch length and tension, sew around all of the edges of the image. I used cream thread on Graham's and white on Gwen's to match the image that is being applied.

Now you are done and have a new t-shirt with a favorite image on it.

Super quick and easy project. Will be making more of these when I find a good deal on T-shirts.
Hope the directions were clear.