Creative Juices Are Flowing

My creative juices are flowing again and I feel the need to craft something soon. My first goals are to fix a friends purse as well as make a cover for another friends skirt purse. I've thought about trying to make a coupon purse/organizer as I'm going to try my hand at couponing again. You do anything to save money, although it has cost me money so far. Not much though as I'm only paying $1 per week for just the Sunday paper. My first weeks paper was for the Labor Day holiday and I had no clue holiday papers didn't have coupons. So not fair, but I've learned something at least. What to sew...what to sew...that is the question...

Banana Chocolate Gorilla Bread Recipe - Swagbucks TV

Banana Chocolate Gorilla Bread Recipe - Swagbucks TV

Thirty One Skirt Purse Skirt - Handmade

The craze right now is Thirty One bags and the Skirt Purse is popular. I had to see what all the hub bub was all about so I bought one. As soon as my hands were on the skirt that goes over the purse I realized how cheaply they were made and I just had to see how easy it would be to make one myself...ONLY BETTER!! So out came my paper to get the measurements, made a pattern for myself and shazaam...instant skirt purse cover. This is the first one of many of come as I would like to make some more for friends and to sell if I can get the measurements perfect. I'm also still trying to get my button holes perfected. On the originals, they have little hooks but I made button holes as I didn't have what they used plus it's cheaper. I'm lovin' it!!

Baby Snuggie (aka baby bunting)

So I found a free pattern/tutorial online that showed me how to sew a velcro closed baby bunting. Someone at work is having a baby and I've been wanting to sew something...anything...so in this case, here is what I made last night.

Animal fabric on outside and soft fuzzy yellow flannel on the inside. Complete with bear inside to show where the baby will go. Enjoy.

Knitting Project

I'm working on a knitting project for a scarf...getting as much done as possible tonight and then I'll be making my Christmas gifts tomorrow night. It's a surprise so no hints except one. It will be my own pattern as I haven't seen what I want out there yet, but I've made two of these in the past, just not this pattern. It will hold about 10-12 of something.

Tablecloths are officially DONE!!

Record timing on 2 finished tonight...2 hours so that was 1 hour on each! Pretty good if I do say so myself. Now that I'm done with these...I can get on with my Christmas gifts for friends & family. Come back soon to check out what I make. Have a good evening everyone...I'm going to bed. :)

Tablecloths - Night #2

Just getting started...it's 9:13pm, lets see how long this one takes.

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An hour and 40 minutes later...what's up with that, longer than the 1st one. I have to get some done on te 3rd one tonight so I'll go to midnight and see how far I get. The more I do tonight, the less I have to do tomorrow. Ugh. :)

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Well I started having difficulties and just called it a night. Looks like I'm going to be a sewing mad woman tomorrow sewing up the other 2. Tablecloths are super easy to sew but they just take a long time. The pinning, the unpinning as you sew and then double sewing to make sure they are durable during washing/drying.