Super Saturday-Thank yous

Super Saturday was such a HUGE project! I had never done one before or even attended one so that made it that much harder to figure things out. I had so many people willing to help out and take on the projects that I gave them. It made things so much easier one me since I dove into this without knowing if I would even have any teachers for the projects I picked.

I was still in major sewing mode(and still am. Can't stop)

So I whipped up these super cute tea towels for the teachers. I may have made an extra set for myself to keep...

All the workers at JoAnn's may or may not know me by name and yell it across the store whenever I head in there. (Think Cheers). It's pretty awesome!

Super Saturday-Apron

We didn't get very far on these aprons. I felt bad because it had been a long day for everyone and while we were all supposed to be sewing these babies up I was running around trying to clean so that we weren't at the church till midnight, when I should have been helping everyone.

Here is my finished product. It turned out so cute! It was really fast. I made this in one evening after the girls went to bed and I still got to bed on time. These would make such fun Christmas presents. You can never have too many aprons (says the girls who has tons hanging in her kitchen and even more stored away...)

Super Saturday

This weekend is going to be a craft day at my church. Some like to call it Super Saturday. I am in charge and am really excited but have never actually been to one so we shall see how it goes. My ward out here is kinda small but I managed to round up helpers to make things.

Here is a preview of the crafts we will be making.

Click HERE for the link to this project's toutorial. We decided to make ours a little bigger but it still ended up only costing $2.50 each. And we decided to offer all the temples from this site along with a few different sayings and ribbons so they could really be personalized.

This is my favorite. I found this garland on pinterest, It is for sale overseas. I just made my own. These came to $2.60 each for a 6 foot garland!

We are also making a quiet book from some of these cute pages. You can buy them HERE. I bought 5 activities. $1 each activity and then you print them yourself. They are already colored so all we have to do is laminate and stick magnets on them.

This is another image I found online and copied. I found a dollar store frame I spray painted and then chose a white cotton background and some printed cotton fabrics for the nativity scene. We will just be using fusible webbing to iron it on. I will probably take mine home and sew around it but you don't have to. This ended up being $2.50 to make.


We are also making this apron:

To put in this jar:

I also have a friend who is making really cute cards and tags for us to stamp and make.

It's gonna be a lot of fun. Lunch after and lots of chatting with friends! I'll post pictures of the after next week.

Sewing with Kids- Teachers Gift Edition

Since my daughter loves to sew I wanted her to be involved in making the teachers gift this year. Not that I had ever made anything before this year, she is just now graduating preschool. She has 4 different teachers at her preschool and they have all helped her out so much with opening her up and getting her to talk so I wanted to make sure they knew how much we appreciated them.

I decided to start with what I had on hand and that was aprons already halfway made. They just needed a band and a pockets. I also already had cute food fabric so I went from there. I made the aprons and then had Corduroy help with matching dishtowels.

She wanted to cut the fabric into a heart shape. She did the pattern, cutting and stitching.

I knew that would be a little plain so we also used these fabric crayons she got for her birthday. You just color with them on white paper and then iron the design onto your fabric. Super simple, crayons can be found at JoAnns, but the design just wasn't very dark. So it looked a little more silly than cute. But still, fun for Cordy cause she loves coloring.

Then, since it still needed a little something more, I stitched a thick heart stitch that my machine has across the bottom. That made it look finished. 

She picked out which color went with which teacher, they best part was that I was thinking of the same colors for the same teachers.

Then she made a card for each of her teachers and stuck them all in a bag.

SYTYC Week 8 Scrap Curtains

Scrap Curtains

This project was one of those projects that just popped into my head and I couldn't stop until I was finished.

Simple kitchen curtains made from scraps of fabric and ribbon

After I hung them I told my husband that since I had something pretty and cheery to look at in the kitchen I might spend more time in there. He just laughed.

The curtains are made from flour sack towels, so there was no sewing there. And then I got to use all my fabric fabric scraps for cute little aprons. I wish they were as easy to make for me as they were to make for this curtain!

Thanks, soooo, what is it?

Just what you want to hear when giving someone something you made right?

I guess the dishtowel was a little fancy with all the ruffles on it. Definitely not practical. But who wants practical for Christmas right? It should be something fun and whimsical. I tried but it didn't work to my advantage when my brother told me that my sister in law said thanks but wants to know what it is. Ha! Then we spent about 3 minutes on the phone while all 3 of us when back and forth while I tried to explain dishtowel to them. Trying to have a male interpret this in Spanish isn't the best way to explain things. Finally there was a big, "OHHHH!" after I said just hang it on the oven door.

 Note to self: Leave ruffles off of dishtowels. Not sure how they are gonna dry their hands on them anyways...

Aprons

A few weeks ago I taught the Young Women at my church how to sew. We decided to teach them how to sew a half apron. And to keep it really simple, we used flour sack towels so there would be no hemming and a ribbon for the waist. These are a couple examples I made to show them what we were going to be making. Look for them in my Etsy shop soon. I promise it will not be in vacation mode forever.

Mother Daughter Apron set

Mother Apron

Daughter Apron

More pictures. I like how the color turned out in these...

Apron, tea towel and potholder

This was for a bridal shower this last weekend. I think it turned out super cute. I want one for me now. I have been wanting to make me an apron for forever and can't decide on a fabric but the way this turned out helps make my decision easier.

The potholder I have now is nasty and old, so I made one this weekend. It turned out pretty well but I think that next time I will add 2 layers of cotton batting to make it thicker.

Wedding Invitation Dishtowel

This dishtowel was made for a friend's wedding. I made it from their wedding invitation as you can see from the pictures. The design was printed onto material and is machine washable.

Sunny Day Dishtowel

This is a dishtowel I made for a friend.