In my journey of teaching myself how to sew I have about 50 tutorial’s bookmarked. My goal is to be able to make Jackson clothes as well as myself. So far I’ve made 5 zippered pouches with 3 different tutorial’s. This is my latest , and my best…if I do say so myself, that I made for my mom as part as a birthday gift (we got her a new camera and it fits perfectly in the pouch). I got the tutorial from NOODLEHEAD. It was pretty easy to follow and being a beginner the pictures helped.  This was also the first time I used interfacing and put in a tab for a keyring.

It’s not perfect, hello crazy zipper, but I like how it came out. I’m gonna see how many I can make before Christmas to give as gifts. Wish me luck =)

xoxo
jewels

It’s been awhile since I stitched anything and I had this Sublime Stitching pattern for , oh I don’t know, a YEAR…so I finally decided to stitch it up.  It took me about 2 days to do it since the only time I get to any stitching is when Jackson is asleep. I think I’m going to add more hair but for now I think it came out cool.
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I got the Chain Stitch down…go me!!

With some practice and lots of patience, I finally did the chain stitch. This was my first project using this stitch.  It’s not perfect but in time I hope to get better.  I think it came out ok  for a newbie =)

This was also my first go at stitching on quilting cotton and using metallic thread.  It’s still a WIP.

I used DMC floss and Kreinik gold Metallic #8

The LOVE pattern is from Sublime Stitching. (of course;])

xoxo

“all you need is love”

I saw this print at Target a while back and loved it. I knew I wanted it for Jackson so I put it on my mental list of stuff to buy sooner or later.  Fast forward to last week when I went through my Sublime Stitching book and saw   the alphabet patterns…

I stitched on felt using the backstitch:

I drew the heart with pencil and filled it in with the back stitch, as you can see I had some trouble with the sizing of the heart which resulted in pencil marks on the felt. oops=/

I knew I wanted to paint the hoop black or red…

I went with black, I’m really happy with the end result. And I saved 20 bucks. whoo hoo!

xoxo
“i love you, you love me”

Taking over the world. One tie dyed tee at a time.

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j”dress you up in my love”ewels