Pillow overhaul.

It feels good to finally get my sewing machine out for the first time in months! Now that I finally have a little desk to use as my sewing area, I can get some projects done!

I just recently bought a little loveseat at the neighborhood wide yard sale a couple weeks back and covered it with a cute slipcover from target (i literally go to Target like every single day that I don't have to work... )But I like to keep my purple quilt on my couch and the throw pillows I had been using were plain old brown ones from my room way back in probably middle school. Sooo... time for an overhaul. My need to sew + no really good fabric stores in town + my newfound love of online shopping = fabric.com

I got two yards of this print for less than $30 including shipping. I definitely used less than a yard for this project, so I'd say it cost me less than $15. Cheap=awesome.

This is not really a very involved project, so I won't go into a lot of detail. But I'm proud of how these pillows turned out:



My pillows were 17 1/2 by 17 1/2 inches, so I cut squares of fabric that were 18x18 to allow for a 1/4 seam:





This is super easy. Just sew the squares together inside out, leaving enough space along one edge (about the middle third) to squeeze the pillow inside. Flip the case right-side out, insert pillow and pin and hand-stitch (or machine stitch) the opening. I don't mind hand-stitching them when I have plenty of time to sit around and watch a couple episodes on Netflix like I did today.





Ta da! Cheap, easy, adorable AND I never even had to leave the house. That's my kind of project.

Lace Love

I love lace and I love my new bag!


For Valentines day, our mom made each of us girls the sweetest bags! She had seen me eying all the pretty laces at the craft store and went back and bought them to sew on a little tote bag! I was so surprised and just adore how cute it turned out!







-Dani

Can we get some skirt weather please?

For some reason, Dani sparked a little seed in me this weekend to work on some sewing. What she really wanted was for me to show her the ropes and teach her how to sew. But what ACTUALLY happened was me taking over and getting a couple projects done while she "supervised." No surprise there. Once I get going on a project, I can't stop.

The first skirt I started making is of navy blue jersey fabric. I pretty much followed the tutorial for the Socialite skirt on this link: However, I ran into some issues with the elastic thread they said to use. The waist band was bubbling up really weird, unlike how it's flat in the picture. I ended up putting strips of elastic in the waistband to give it some structure, make it tight, and just give it a little bit of a different look. In the end, I think I salvaged it but I wouldn't say it was my best work.





When I got stuck/frustrated with the first skirt, I started on another one for Dani. She picked a blue and white striped seersucker fabric and found this tutorial online for me to use. It was literally so quick and easy and SUPER cute...I was shocked! AND Dani loves it. Jenny bought fabric for me to make her one, and I have a couple of ideas for who else might like one. I wish I had found this tutorial sooner. I could have been making all my little restaurant hostess skirts for the past year and half! I'll definitely be making this one again!







-Megan