tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18240577029275981422023-11-16T05:24:25.943-06:00By Mama With LoveStepperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16300511510513704034noreply@blogger.comBlogger176125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824057702927598142.post-69603709300518861272020-02-27T01:11:00.001-06:002020-02-27T01:11:48.968-06:00Learning how to crochet again ❤️<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Years ago, when I was like 8 years old, Granny Eileen (my mother’s mother) taught me how to crochet and knit. I only learned how to crochet a chain in the short vacation time she was visiting. I lost interest and thankfully never lost my hook that she gave me. Kai did that when she learned how to crochet, via Aunt Mandy. The knitting was a much bigger hit, with me, but I eventually broke my needles and forgot how to knit before I finished making anything. </div>
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Recently Carolina’s best friend taught her how to make a chain. She, in turn, taught Enoch, and we’ve all received several Friendship bracelets as a result. Sadly, all of mine have fallen off and gotten lost. Maybe I can get a picture of someone else’s tomorrow. </div>
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I have been happy to watch them with nostalgia, and a little longing to carry on the family tradition of crocheting. In addition to Granny Eileen, her mother in law Marie crocheted. Marie made dainty things like doilies and table runners. I have several of her pieces, sadly most of them are damaged. </div>
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They came to me in such shape. Granny kept them, I believe with plans to repair them. She also kept Marie’s tiny crochet hooks. Hopefully, we’ll be able to make those repairs one day. I received these pieces when Granny passed away, from my Aunt Sarah, thankfully. </div>
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This is one of Marie’s doilies, in great shape.</div>
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When I went to the drawer to get the doily I came across this <a href="http://bymamawithlove.blogspot.com/2010/07/coffee-koozie.html?m=0" target="_blank">coffee koozie</a> that I had completely forgotten about. My good friend Julie Thomas held a crochet meeting at the church and taught us all how to make these, and I believe I actually made a post on this blog page about it! LOL! I put a link if you click on coffee koozie, above.</div>
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Our local library, Fred A. Vaught library of Hartsville, Tn, has started up a crochet club.</div>
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The kids wanted to go to it. They met last night. They have been meeting for a while now. And I had forgotten, but now I remember that Kai wanted to go back when I first started meeting. But, just like then, they do not allow kids to come to these meetings. Kids can come to the library and hang out in the kids area, but this was one of the few events that they wanted to try to reserve just for adults. I cannot say that I blame them at all. I did say that they would be excited to start a kids crochet club if I can get other kids interested in it. So, I need to talk to my friends.</div>
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I didn’t wanna leave though. My favorite skirt was made by my Granny Eileen. </div>
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This is the skirt Granny made.</div>
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Recently, I saw this dress when I was looking through my Elle fashion magazine.</div>
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Enoch declared that he would make it for me! Sweet boy of mine. So, thankfully a good friend at the Crochet Club showed me how to make a Granny Square. And that’s what I am working on learning now. I know mine looks rough at the beginning (the center), but I am proud. I hope to show the kids how tomorrow. And I guess that means I will be buying some yarn in the next few days. This granny square will become a Christmas trivet. We need several as it is. </div>
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It's been a long time since I've posted anything to this blog. Life has gotten really busy homeschooling 5 kids, and homesteading too. But it was time to make a new dog bed, and someone asked me how to do it. So, that is why I am making this tutorial. I hope it is helpful to anyone looking to make a dog bed from upcycled materials you may already have.</div>
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-An old throw blanket (a corner was ripped) 48"x60"</div>
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-40lb chicken feed bag</div>
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With 5 kids it seems like I always have a good amount of supplies to work with. Each time I do laundry I look for t-shirts with stains or holes that I can cut into rags. Sometimes those rags have been used to stuff a dog bed, when my rag drawer is overfilled. Usually I use an old foam mattress topper. I believe the last one I made was 3 years ago. You can see a photo of that dog bed at the very end of this post. It was not an outdoor bed. That bed just got tossed out last year when Nella used it for her 2nd year in a row. Smitty passed away 3 years ago next month. We miss him very much. There are links to two other posts I made regarding homemade dog beds at the bottom of this post.</div>
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Hidey wants to keep it for her own.</div>
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This is the piece of foam my husband bought to go in the diaper changing table he built for our babies. He made it several years ago. I had made a waterproof fitted sheet for it, that is lost. But I did still have a fitted cover for it that I decided to put on it. Since I made it specifically for this, so no sense in trying to keep it for something else. Might as well let them stay together.</div>
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Hidey really does not want to let Nella have it. </div>
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The first thing I did was cover it in old feed sacks. I keep them for trash bags, when we clean up the yard or workshop, and other various uses such as this. I like using the feed sacks that are made from tarp like material, because overtime it gets "broken in". Meaning, it gets less crinkly sounding and more pliable, and more like fabric. While retaining the ability to keep stinky moisture out of the foam. This way, at the end of the winter season I can simply remove the cloth outer layer, wipe the bed down and store it in the shed until next winter. Then I will recover it with whatever old blanket or towels we are ready to get rid of at the time. </div>
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First I put the chicken feed bag on because it is smaller. It still fits well enough, but a little snug.</div>
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Next I used the 50lb dog food bag. I just happened to have this bag due to someone donating this food to us because we take in a lot of stray dogs until we can find their owner or a new home. We do not use this food though. There are a lot of scary reviews for this food on the Consumer Reports website, so we try to steer clear of it if we can. However, I am grateful to have this bag today.</div>
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In an effort to add a little extra layer of moisture protection I sealed the bags together with 3" wide duct tape. </div>
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Now I fold the blanket in half and sew it together leaving one of the short ends open to make it like a pillowcase.</div>
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I used this stitch. A wide zig zag stitch will suffice if you don't have this particular one on your machine.</div>
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I used about 5/8 inch seam allowance because I have plenty of room in this cover to spare. A wide seam allowance will be a little more secure than trying to keep it close to the edge.</div>
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Finally, slide the bed inside of the cover and sew up the open end.</div>
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Here is the finished product, inside of her dog house. It will be more flat when she gets in there. I have no desire to crawl in there and pat it down. lol</div>
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I tried to get a picture of her in it, but it's only 26 degrees tonight and she would much rather play in the snow and bark at the coyotes and other farm dogs in the distance. But it's in there waiting for her when she's ready. It's supposed to get down to 17 degrees tomorrow night, so she'll probably use it then. Tonight she's just hanging out on the top of the dog house and running around her kennel. </div>
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We keep our Great Pyrenees kenneled next to the chicken coop because she is dedicated strictly to watching over the chickens. If she has too much area to patrol, on her own, the chicken coop might get infiltrated. We hope to get more livestock and another livestock guardian dog this spring.</div>
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Please leave a comment and share your own dog bed pictures or links.</div>
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This was my favorite dog bed that I've made so far. I made Delsin and Enoch Cowboy bedding and curtains and this bed to match for Smitty, because he became an inside dog during his last days. He slept in the boys room the most. I made a great tutorial for it, but blogger's phone app was having problems and kept deleting it. They no longer have a phone app, and I no longer have this tutorial to share. But if I ever make another one similar to it I will make a tutorial again.</div>
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Stepperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16300511510513704034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824057702927598142.post-62394911341626962692015-09-29T10:48:00.001-05:002015-09-29T10:48:36.738-05:00Apple Crazy<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJgkQmxFjtC18ButwxZd_kLNPVdSfXhj2y6fGe5Qt-oEK5op3n6pkqtC8mop2nvvqntCHcwQOSlV6yj7317G-xNuR1HeaaMdC3-O0MLE9BBuMeqH_X1fvrn9roBesskZJtYhem2Jisa2dR/s640/blogger-image-1853554667.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJgkQmxFjtC18ButwxZd_kLNPVdSfXhj2y6fGe5Qt-oEK5op3n6pkqtC8mop2nvvqntCHcwQOSlV6yj7317G-xNuR1HeaaMdC3-O0MLE9BBuMeqH_X1fvrn9roBesskZJtYhem2Jisa2dR/s640/blogger-image-1853554667.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div> We bought a bushel of Gayla apples from Big Chief Apple Orchard recently. I also picked up this cookbook on apples by Patricia Mitchell. </div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFdtD8-_BbamouZFxiGPsnlIPJmfz_mvKhIONHPf6TrbT2hfP2XfmCgZNpz_EEds5xQebSDXhs2ruUqraxZk-w3bUbR8dPH9YLOf4zOp8I9IjWdPH8b0BNX9jUilTJDa7S0zc3BoRh8ZCL/s640/blogger-image-1671104036.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFdtD8-_BbamouZFxiGPsnlIPJmfz_mvKhIONHPf6TrbT2hfP2XfmCgZNpz_EEds5xQebSDXhs2ruUqraxZk-w3bUbR8dPH9YLOf4zOp8I9IjWdPH8b0BNX9jUilTJDa7S0zc3BoRh8ZCL/s640/blogger-image-1671104036.jpg"></a></div> I really enjoy her cookbooks. They are an excellent read, and this one turned into a lesson on Johnny Appleseed, for us. I've probably made half of the recipes by now. Here are a couple of pictures. 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We had a picnic at Point PRk on top of Lookout Mountain. Then we went swimming at our campsite. We are staying in a sweet little cabin. </div><div><br></div><div>We are about to grill burgers, roast s'mores on a campfire, and tomorrow we are going to the Tennessee Aquarium and moon pie general store.</div>Stepperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16300511510513704034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824057702927598142.post-2000744058836136472015-06-22T10:02:00.003-05:002015-06-22T10:02:59.105-05:00Project Run and Play Top 10!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I just finished a bathing suit for this month's Project Run and Play challenge. I'm posting some photos, without my model because she is sleeping. I'll do better tomorrow. Please pardon me.<br />
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The challenge for this month was to take<a href="http://www.projectrunplay.com/2015/06/junes-pattern-is.html" target="_blank"> this </a>Frozen Elsa dress pattern and make it or something inspired by it. <img alt="DIY-Frozen-Elsa-Dress.-Make-your-own-Elsa-dress..super-easy-and-super-cute1-1024x782" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-9181" src="http://kikicomin.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/DIY-Frozen-Elsa-Dress.-Make-your-own-Elsa-dress..super-easy-and-super-cute1-1024x782-e1432967510474.png" /><br />
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We don't need any more Elsa costumes, but I was inspired to make a bathing suit for Lenore using the tutorial to make my top. <br />
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I wanted sort of a racer back, because trying to put criss cross straps on a baby isn't fun.<br />
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Lenore has already shown a strong desire for being in the water as much as possible. Carolina was swimming at age 1, and I wouldn't be surprised if Lenore didn't swim her first year too. She needs something that will not slip off the shoulders.<br />
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I wanted scalloped edges, and to make sure they didn't curl up overtime I lined my top with the same gray swimsuit fabric. <br />
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I am loving this feature. The boy short bottoms are scalloped too. Though they look more like pirate pants on her than the elegant scalloped shorts I had pictured in my mind. Oh well.<br />
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Poor Lenore, I feel like I've hardly sewn her anything.</div>
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My mom has recently brought a lot of clothes to the girls when she visits.</div>
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This is a blessing.</div>
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And it has helped me be able to sew something for Lenore instead of focusing on making summer clothes for Kai. Lenore needs things because she doesn't have hand-me-downs to pull from.</div>
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We thought we were done having kids, and she has been a little surprise blessing.</div>
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By the way, have you any idea how hard it is to take pictures of a 6 month old modeling an outfit?<br />
Most of the pictures turned out blurry. The best pictures were taken AFTER my precious model spit-up on her new outfit.<br />
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I just finished it, and want to be sure to get it in by the deadline for <a href="http://www.projectrunplay.com/" target="_blank">Project Run and Play.</a></div>
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The project for this month was <a href="http://www.projectrunplay.com/2015/05/the-pattern-for-may-is.html" target="_blank">this</a> cute little top by The Crafty Cupboard.<br />
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Isn't it sweet? <br />
It wasn't sized for a 6 month old, but I was able to make it smaller with no problem.<br />
I used cotton knit to make this outfit.<br />
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The first thing I did was make a wider skirt portion so it would be much fuller.<br />
I just love flutter sleeves, and decided to do two on each side, since I knew I'd be adding two ruffles around the whole thing.<br />
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My favorite feature just may be all the stars I sewed into the skirt of the dress.<br />
It's called reverse applique.<br />
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I drew some stars onto the white knit, cut them out and then sewed it to the wrong side of my dress fabric. Then I trimmed around my star shape on the back. Finally, I cut out the dress fabric, inside the star shape on the front of the dress. Voila! Reverse applique!<br />
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My second favorite thing is the peek-a-boo back on the back of the dress with the ruffled bloomers showing through.<br />
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My third favorite thing is that it took 3 unwanted t-shirts to make this outfit.<br />
My sister recently asked me if I wanted to go through a box of clothes she was taking to the local thrift store to donate. I scored several new looking t-shirts her husband didn't want. Love to upcycle!<br />
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I had a lot of fun making this outfit. Whew! It's getting more challenging to sew at this stage of her life. She got her first two teeth this week AND started crawling in the past two days. So I'm busy to say the least. But it sure is fun to sweat over. And now my sweet baby has a festive outfit to wear to this weekend's Memorial Day celebration.<br />
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I wish I had gotten my diaper bag finished in time. You can read about it<a href="http://bymamawithlove.blogspot.com/2015/04/lenores-um-my-new-diaper-bag.html" target="_blank"> here </a>if you want to see what I came up with. </div>
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Snuggle flannel bought from Joann Fabric store some Black Friday many moons ago. I cut it into some decent looking squarish/rectangular shapes. I didn't bother to measure them.</div>
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Delsin got out of bed while I was putting a zig zag stitch around the edges. So did Lenore. He asked if he could do the rest of them. He wanted to be a part of making something for her. He's so sweet. </div>
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Can you believe these are the same shoes?</div>
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We bought them at Gap in August 2014.</div>
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Carolina needed some shoes to wear in the beauty pageant, and these were the perfect shade of pink.</div>
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She loved them. As you can see she nearly loved them to death.</div>
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When the recent beauty pageant rolled around and Carolina needed new shoes I was faced with the daunting question, "Do I take these 5 children out shoe shopping for a new pair of dress shoes for Carolina? Or do I figure out how to make her current dress shoes work?" </div>
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It didn't take a split second to know that I had no interest in taking my boys shoe shopping for a girl unless absolutely necessary. There would be too much whining, running, and overall mayhem if I take them to a series of stores. I thought I remembered seeing someone refurbish some old shoes during a season of<a href="http://www.projectrunplay.com/" target="_blank"> Project Run and Play</a> some time ago. I quickly started the task of scrolling through each and every post on their blog page, in an effort to find what I was looking for.</div>
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I did not find it. But I did find<a href="http://www.projectrunplay.com/2014/05/flashback-may-spring-formal-wear.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+ProjectRunAndPlay+%28Project+Run+and+Play%29" target="_blank"> this awesome shoe project</a>.</div>
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I like the author a lot. She has a blog over at <a href="http://www.cathgrace.com/">www.cathgrace.com</a> .</div>
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I have pinned more than one thing she did on Project Run and Play. </div>
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I followed this tutorial with some slight changes.</div>
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I took pictures along the way so I can share the experience with anyone that would like to try it.</div>
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Some things you'll need are tacky glue, craft paint, fine glitter, scissors, paint brush, seam ripper, and tweezers. Not pictured: fleece or felt, needle and 8lb test fishing line, or jewelry making nylon thread, two sizes of beads, embroidery hoop and scrap of cotton fabric to use as stabilizer.</div>
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That's why she wore them every chance she got.</div>
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First, remove the pink turned brown ribbon and flower.</div>
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The first thing I did was take my closest matching craft paint and paint the shoes. </div>
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I wanted to just cover the scuffs, but the shade was darker, so I had to go ahead and cover the whole shoe. I was worried this could cause problems with chipping and coming off, but that hasn't been the case.</div>
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This made it thinner and more manageable.</div>
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For the heart shaped beadwork I followed the tutorial by Catherine from www.cathgrace.com very closely with slight differences. She used felt under the beads and I used fleece. Because that's just what I had on hand.</div>
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Always upcycling where I can I was able to use the small clear beads from this necklace.</div>
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My friend Erica gave this to me 5 or 6 years ago when she cleaned out her jewelry box. She gave me several things that the kids would play dress up with. But this one had been abandoned in my room for quite some time now. It was time to give it a new purpose. The other beads used are ones I purchased from my craft supply store. Light pink glass beads.</div>
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OK, so what you see here is I'm sewing the beads to the heart shaped fleece.</div>
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I just got done converting all of our hooded baby towels into bath aprons. <br />
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I saw bath aprons on Pinterest in recent years. I pinned one that was made from a regular bath towel, but we already have several hooded baby towels. I knew I would be using those. </div>
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It was really simple actually. Using scraps of ribbon stuffed into my ribbon basket I just took ones that were about a foot in length and sewed one on each side of each hood.</div>
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You just tie the ribbons around your neck, then you already have a towel in place when it's time to get your baby out of the bath. No reaching/dropping/sweating bullets while keeping hold of the baby and grabbing a towel at the same time. </div>
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So, I was going to participate in Project Run and Play<a href="http://www.projectrunplay.com/" target="_blank">http://www.projectrunplay.com/</a> this month. </div>
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by 4 days. But life with a newborn wins. And we went to the Great Smokey Mountains for a week as a field trip to school. (Side bar: I highly recommend this book"Scavenger Hike Adventures". Just plain educational fun.)</div>
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So, I didn't get the bag done in time for Project Run and Play, but it's still an awesome bag.</div>
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The challenge was to take<a href="http://www.sugarbeecrafts.com/2014/09/reversible-sling-bag.html" target="_blank"> this</a> beautiful bag pattern and make something spectacular.</div>
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It's the <a href="http://www.sugarbeecrafts.com/2014/09/reversible-sling-bag.html" target="_blank">Reversible Sling Bag from Sugar Bee Crafts</a>. </div>
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I downloaded the pattern, cut it out and taped it together.</div>
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I decided that I would need more room for a diaper bag, so I laid my old diaper bag out on some table paper and cut out my own pattern, imitating the Sugar Bee pattern in shape.</div>
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I did follow her tutorial, and would recommend it, for sure. </div>
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Another change that I made at this stage is to remove the middle strip. I just cut two sides for the outer fabric and two sides for the lining. </div>
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I wanted lots of ruffles. My friend Betsy made herself a ruffle purse a couple of years ago.</div>
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I've had that purse on my list since then. However, I'm not gonna carry a purse anytime in the next few years, so I decided to ruffle a diaper bag.</div>
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In the end I added one of my Baby Bear Hugz tags. Baby Bear Hugz is the name of my baby carrier business. I've run out of my "By Mama With Love" tags, so I used this one. After all it is a baby product. As a surprise bonus I discovered today that this makes for a quick place to hang my sunglasses. </div>
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The strap narrows near the top, but it is a wide strap, for comfort. The interfacing is also very comfortable cotton/polly quilting batting. With all the stuff I carry for five kids, it is appreciated.</div>
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I always get to carry at least one bottle of water in my bag, so I put these two bottle holders on either end of the bag. Also great for securing a bottle of milk or sippy cup. I'm not fond of searching the bottom of my bag for these things. I've been using very large purses for the past couple of years, instead of "diaper bags". I missed these.</div>
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The closure is a simple elastic loop and button.</div>
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I had this one in my stash of buttons. I bought these buttons around 1995 at a Hancock fabric store in Conyers, Ga. I think I got them for .25 each? A deal I couldn't pass up, and something I knew I'd use when I started sewing for my kids.</div>
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All of these fabrics came out of my stash of fabrics, so I can qualify for <a href="http://www.projectleasa.com/sewmystash2015-kickoff/" target="_blank">#SewMyStash2015</a>.</div>
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The lining is a Kumari Garden print I bought 3 years ago, along with the pink flowery print.</div>
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The turquoise and pink flower ruffle layers are an Amy Butler print I've had for probably 6 years.</div>
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The interfacing is a cotton/poly blend of quilting batting. Very dense and good for this bag. I got it at Fabric World in Atlanta for $1.00 a yard, when they had some. It's been at least 5 years since I stumbled across that deal.<br />
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He picked out the pillow at Fabric World in Atlanta at Christmas. I finally got around to making a cover for it using the Li'l Cowpokes fabric. I bought way too much of this fabric. I would like to make up a bunch of things to sell. After I make curtains and a quilt or two.<br />
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I was excited to get to upcycle a couple pairs of pants for this project.</div>
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The "mudd" label was too perfect to remove. It's reflective of my day. Kids playing in mud and me complaining about it getting tracked onto my freshly cleaned floors. Those pockets came off of a pair of Carolina's old pants. I also rescued some cute embroidery of flowers that was on the pant leg. I hope to use it in some future project. Maybe the<a href="http://www.projectrunplay.com/2015/04/aprils-pattern-is.html" target="_blank"> Project Run and Play bag</a> that's the challenge for this month. The denim underneath the pockets came off of a pair of Kai's pants.</div>
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This was her first time to be in a pageant. It was Kai's 2nd time.<br />
Carolina won Little Miss Queen of Trousdale County.<br />
This was my first time to ever make a smocked dress. I made it for her Easter dress. 2011<br />
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So I was looking back through old posts and realized I hadn't written a post on Carolina's pageant dresses.</div>
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I got the idea for this dress from something I had seen on Etsy.com<br />
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She got 2nd runner up and loved the taste of that trophy!<br />
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We didn't participate in any pageants in 2013<br />
Last year (2014) she wore a dress I got at a thrift store.<br />
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I got another good picture of Kai wearing her dress. <br />
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When I saw this pattern I immediately knew I wanted to make a lightweight jacket or cardigan, and this is why.</div>
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There is this gorgeous little keyhole in the back.</div>
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I just thought it would be beyond divine to have the dress fabric show through the keyhole of the jacket, which coincidentally is held together only by the knots.</div>
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Plus, even though it's spring it's never warm enough to go without a cardigan on Easter Sunday.</div>
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I wanted this to be her Easter dress, so I just had to make it. </div>
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This gave me the perfect opportunity to make her that ruffle bustle dress I've been wanting to make her too. I also wanted to make an open backed jacket for it when I got around to making her a ruffle bustle dress. I got to do both in this project, and we both love how it turned out.</div>
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I used the same pattern for the cardigan, but used a new tutorial for drafting my sleeve pattern.</div>
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I thought about cutting the jacket to be the length of the dress, but she likes the way it looks with her cowgirl boots and jeans too, so I left it this length.</div>
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Now Carolina wants me to make her one. Don't know if I'll have time. We'll find out.</div>
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Stepperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16300511510513704034noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824057702927598142.post-39864283883995637632015-02-19T10:19:00.002-06:002015-02-19T10:20:31.278-06:00Sling Shot Muscle Tee<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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But it seems like all I've had time to do lately is patch the knees in his jeans, and replace the zippers on his backpacks. In other words, all of my sewing time has been consumed with mending.</div>
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But that's not to say I've been doing much mending either.</div>
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Kai sold and we've delivered 814 boxes of Girl Scout cookies.</div>
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Delsin has sold 50 camp cards for Cub Scouts.</div>
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I've had a granny pass away in the past week and a half.</div>
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Another granny become cancer free after surgery, chemo, and another surgery last week.</div>
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So, as always, I've been very busy.</div>
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But I wanted so badly to make at least one shirt for this month's project.</div>
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Since I'm leaving town for a week, at lunch time today, I knew my last chance was last night.</div>
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I went to bed at 4:30 this morning, but I made the exact shirt I wanted to give Delsin. </div>
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First of all I went to the closest fabric store and bought a couple of different knits they had. Well, the only two knits they had. One was white and one was white and black blocks. Kinda like a checker board, but HUGE blocks. Delsin wanted red. I wasn't going to drive to the other fabric store an hour away, or order anything and wait for it to arrive, but I was lucky enough to find a dress in my fabric stash. It was a dress from Cache' that my Granny (the one with cancer) had given me. Someone had cut the shoulders of the dress, so I put it in my fabric stash. It took me several hours to deconstruct the dress so I could save the elastic too, but I had plenty of fabric after that. Nice!</div>
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I've also known that I wanted to make Delsin a shirt with a sling shot on it. He's had a love for slingshots for a few years now. And one day he and my daddy, his Papa, got together and made a slingshot together. Papa had picked out the tree branch a long time before and it's something very special to Delsin.</div>
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After I drew out the sling shot on freezer paper I decided to see if I could make putting his name on it, to match his actual sling shot.</div>
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This is the bottom of our basement door.</div>
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For the past 4 winters, as long as we've lived here I've been wanting to make a door stopper to keep the draft from coming up from the basement.</div>
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Tonight that became a finalized reality.</div>
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And now I'm about to tell you how to make one for your own drafty door.</div>
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-Something to stuff each side of this door draft stopper with. I used an old towel. I have seen some with water pipe insulation, but I used an old towel for mine.</div>
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- A pair of scissors.</div>
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-Needle and thread</div>
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- Cute fabric for the cover. 1/2 a yard should be plenty. I used the legs cut off of some old pajama pants. I love to upcycle.</div>
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-A cute helper doesn't hurt. I wanted to take this opportunity to let my 4 year old get a little sewing experience.</div>
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Hold your towel up to your doorway and cut the ends off of each side to make it match the width of the doorway.</div>
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Next you are going to roll up the long sides of the towel, until you get to the center of the towel. Make sure to leave space for the bottom of the door between your rolls. You can add the pieces you cut off of the ends of the towel to the inside of the rolls, by laying the cut pieces down lengthwise on the sides of the towel.<br />
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Stitch the rolls into place, by hand.<br />
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Your little helper can do this too.<br />
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Just be sure to warn him or her beforehand about the fact that they WILL prick their fingers, and it WILL hurt. But it won't hurt for long and that's just part of sewing.<br />
Everybody does it.<br />
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Poor tough little girl. She was so proud that she didn't quit.<br />
I sewed down one side, while she did the other.<br />
Then of course I helped her on her side.<br />
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Step 3:<br />
Get your cover ready.<br />
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My mom recently sent me a box of clothes for the kids.<br />
Inside was a grocery bag full of the bottoms of pajama pants.<br />
Someone had cut them off to make pajama shorts, and I got the scraps.<br />
Nice!<br />
Thanks Mom!<br />
I just put one pant leg inside the other with the right sides of the fabric facing and stitched the raw edges together to make one long tube. <br />
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If you are simply using fabric you bought at the store, then just wrap it around the towel and leave yourself about 1/2" of seam allowance. <br />
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Then I slipped the towel inside the tube and pinned to show where I wanted my seams to go.<br />
I've got the cover turned inside out for this step.<br />
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Sew the side and one edge along the outline shown by the pins.<br />
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Flip it right side out and slip it over the door draft stopper (towel portion).<br />
Now sew closed the end of thecover, and zig zag stitch up the middle, where it will fit under the door.<br />
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And now it's done!<br />
So darn easy, and it took me so darn long to sit down and get it done.<br />
Shame, shame, shame it took me so long to make this.<br />
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Stepperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16300511510513704034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824057702927598142.post-58484156343343225902015-02-07T22:41:00.000-06:002015-02-07T22:41:16.959-06:00Jelly Pancakes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I made these for breakfast one morning last month. They were kinda like an appetizer to regular pancakes that I did not get a picture of. But I took both recipes from page 95 of the All About Home Baking cookbook. I've blogged about this cookbook before. It was published in 1933 and I just love finding interesting recipes in this cookbook. </div>
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This was a pancake recipe that was different from the other recipe in that it called for flour, baking powder, sugar, salt, milk, egg yolks, egg whites, & butter or shortening. </div>
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The other pancake recipe I tried that same morning called for cake flour, baking soda, salt, egg, buttermilk, and butter or shortening.</div>
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After you cook the pancakes, you spread jelly on them and roll them up. </div>
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Everybody begged for more, but it was actually quite a bit more work, because of sifting, beating the egg yolks, then beating the egg whites till they were stiff. </div>
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Stepperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16300511510513704034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824057702927598142.post-42896610826304823952015-02-06T23:43:00.002-06:002015-02-06T23:43:34.734-06:00Neck Tie Tees<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I made two of these neck tie t-shirts for the boys back in December of 2012, I believe.</div>
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Delsin's was on a regular t-shirt for his size at the time.</div>
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The one pictured was the one I made for Enoch.</div>
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They loved them and got lots of compliments on them.</div>
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I may make some more in the future.</div>
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This or next week I hope to work on the muscle tees for <a href="http://www.projectrunplay.com/2015/02/february-challenge-mademoiselle-muscle.html" target="_blank">Project Run and Play's February Challenge</a>.</div>
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But first I need to finish working on a door draft stopper.</div>
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I started on it two weeks ago!!</div>
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Where does the time go? I'll tell ya. I've been trying to go gluten free lately and that's taking a lot of time, making bread and eating differently from the rest of the family.</div>
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Plus, these 4 kids can wreck a room in less time than it takes me to get out of bed, obviously.</div>
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What a whirl!</div>
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It only took me 3 hours to vacuum the living room floor (I had to pick everything up off of it first, and repeatedly put the little rug rats back to bed :). </div>
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Maybe I'll work on it a little after I feed the baby her midnight meal.</div>
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That is, if I don't fall asleep while feeding her. </div>
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Breastfeeding takes it right out of you.</div>
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Yikes! She's calling! Right on schedule. </div>
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Since we missed Thanksgiving due to the flu I've been craving coconut cake. I would have thought Granny's recipe would have been in the FCE's "Sweet Treats"cookbook that they sold in the last year or two, but it wasn't. </div>
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I don't know why I didn't just call her to get it. I guess I wanted to try one in one of my books. So, I settled on one in a cookbook that showcases blue ribbon winning recipes at state fairs. I would get up and look to see what the name of it is, but this guy just showed up and started cuddling against my booty. I can't bare to make him move just yet.</div>
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The Quiche was a spinach quiche recipe from the red and white Better Homes and Gardens cookbook. The only difference is I used canned spinach instead of fresh. This was one of those nights where I had no meat in the house, or fresh veggies, so I had to pull something together from what was in the pantry. </div>
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I loved it, but I know I'm the only one. Delsin made it very clear. Kai scarfed it down fast, so she could get to the cake. Carolina and Enoch asked to be spoon fed, but gagged on every second bite, and Daniel just told everyone that sometimes we have to eat things we don't like. It was funny, but everyone was respectful. I'll try a different recipe in another year. :)</div>
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The recipe I used for the cake was The All-New Blue Ribbon Cookbook, by Catherine Hanley, page 176 "Coconut Supream Cake". The only thing I didn't have was coconut flavoring, so I added a little shredded coconut to the cake batter (about a tablespoon). Daniel loved it!</div>
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Stepperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16300511510513704034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824057702927598142.post-38306217133390547042015-02-02T22:27:00.000-06:002015-02-02T22:27:40.953-06:00Christmas Pajamas 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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So, for 2012 and 2013 I rarely found the chance to blog.</div>
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I was getting diagnosed with and trying to gain control of my Grave's disease and Type 1 diabetes during that time and I can say I was totally exhausted all that time.</div>
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Funny how now that I have a newborn I seem to have tons more energy.</div>
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For one thing, the pregnancy sent my Grave's disease into remission, so that was a blessing.</div>
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Thank you Lord!</div>
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Here are the Christmas pajamas I never blogged about for the 2013 Christmas season.</div>
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Now, mind you, I just took these pictures within the past few days.</div>
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Actually, Daniel did this photo shoot with Kai.</div>
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He did a good job of making it fun.</div>
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When I made the night gown it was longer on her. I wanted it to be sort of like Cindy Lou Who's nightgown. Coming in toward the legs at the bottom. Kai wears it often, but asked me to never make her another nightgown with elastic in the bottom again, please.</div>
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Guess it's not that comfortable to walk in.</div>
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Carolina's pajamas were a two piece. </div>
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The top is made with two different prints of flannel.</div>
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I didn't have enough of either to make the whole set, so the sleeves and missing pants have a pink Easter Bunny print on the fabric.</div>
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The bodice of the top has frogs and pink Gerber daisies.</div>
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But the buttons are pink and purple Gerber daisies too. Perfect.</div>
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Very cute together.</div>
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Enoch and Delsin simply got pajama pants.</div>
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Enoch is posing.</div>
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I keep seeing Delsin's in the dirty clothes, but can't seem to catch him actually wearing them long enough to get a picture. Gotta get up early to catch that boy.</div>
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Using a <a href="http://diymaternity.com/pants-skirts/how-to-make-a-reversible-paper-bag-maternity-skirt-with-chie-of-vivat-veritas/" target="_blank">tutoria</a>l I found over at <a href="http://diymaternity.com/">diymaternity.com</a><br />
I made this paperbag skirt. Or is paper bag skirt? I don't know.</div>
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I kept waiting to post this until I got a better picture.</div>
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But since I'm not pregnant anymore that no longer is possible.</div>
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Well, I don't know. </div>
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I haven't actually worn this since I was pregnant.</div>
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I did try it on briefly one Sunday morning when we were in a rush to get out the door to church and Kai met me at the door with an emphatic, "NOOOOO, Mama!" </div>
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Then Delsin quickly ran around to see what she was so excited about and busted out laughing in agreement with her.</div>
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So, I haven't worn it since I was pregnant.</div>
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But I'm looking at this picture thinking...</div>
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...with my long sleeve black v-neck cotton tee and a pair of tights I might be able to pull this off. </div>
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Maybe I'll try it on with a few optional possibilities tomorrow. </div>
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If I can get past the first option without crying, that is.</div>
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We'll see.<br />
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Originally when I made it, I had made it longer. See?<br />
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What a difference a hem length makes, huh?<br />
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I think it looks better shorter.<br />
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Wow, you can almost see how swollen my ankles got, in these pictures.<br />
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Stepperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16300511510513704034noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824057702927598142.post-51758614111129456632015-01-26T00:14:00.000-06:002015-01-26T00:32:19.970-06:00Tiered Bubble Dress Tutorial<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I just love this dress.</div>
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I guess I like layers on dresses. This makes the third dress I remember doing it on, and it's right up there with the other two as being one of my favorites. </div>
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The other two were Kai's pageant dresses.</div>
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But enough about all that. You want to know how to make one of these for your own, so here it goes.</div>
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First of all I knew I needed to know the basics of making a bubble skirt.</div>
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I looked at a couple of tutorials for this.</div>
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1.<a href="http://alidamakes.com/2013/06/bubble-dress-tutorial.html" target="_blank"> Alida's Bubble Dress Tutorial</a> was featured on the Project Run and Play page as the dress to use for our inspiration when making this month's project. </div>
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2. I also referred to and ultimately got more information for this particular skirt from <a href="http://www.simplesimonandco.com/2012/03/a-bubble-skirt-tutorial.html" target="_blank">Simple Simon's Bubble Skirt Tutorial.</a></div>
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I used this site to learn how to measure my fabric cuts. The only difference between what I did and what they did is that in addition to cutting fabric for a bubble skirt. I cut another layer 3 inches shorter than the first for the middle layer and a third layer 3 inches shorter than the second. I cut it from both the outer fabric and the lining too.</div>
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I don't have a picture of my fabric cuts, because it didn't occur to me that I was going to do a tutorial until after I sewed the skirt together. </div>
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I should also note that I did not follow the Simple Simon tutorial for the waist band. So if you are making my dress, omit that part.</div>
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So, my recommendation would be to follow the Simple Simon Tutorial for the skirt x 3 because we are making 3 layers. Then match the top of each layer up and sew around the top. I finished each layer top with a zig zag stitch. I don't use a serger. I did so to keep unsightly strings from unraveling and hanging around. Makes it all neat and pretty and more sturdy seams when to attach the skirt to the bodice or waist band.</div>
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The skirt inside out...</div>
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Next, I took a dress that Carolina already had in her closet (one my sister made for Kai, a few years ago) and traced around the bodice pieces, but I changed the back of this dress up from being one piece to making it two pieces. Two things to remember when doing this...</div>
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2. If you are changing the back of the dress, add an extra 1 to two inches to the middle of the back for buttons. You need extra fabric folded under where the buttons and button holes are going to be.</div>
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I don't like cutting and adding on interfacing if I don't need to. This is simple. Just cut it extra wide on the side of the bodice piece that will be in the middle of the back and fold it under once or twice.</div>
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Now you are going to sew the back bodice pieces to the front bodice pieces at the shoulder. Do this for your outer fabric and your lining fabric.</div>
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Next cut your sleeves. Again, I used a sleeve on a dress in Carolina's closet to use as my pattern.</div>
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I wanted a puffier sleeve though, so I traced a little more than 1/2 inch from the sleeve I was using as a pattern. Sleeves are so forgiving because you can just gather them where you are going to sew them to the shoulder. And this is what I did to make it puffier.</div>
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If you aren't familiar with how to gather. You need to set your sewing machine (or you can do this by hand) on the longest stitch you can. Unfold your sleeve fabric and where the curve starts, start sewing your straight stitch. This is called a basting stitch. Simply sew to the other curve.</div>
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Now, with right sides of your fabric together pin the center of the top of the sleeve to the shoulder seam. Pin the ends of the sleeve to the sides of the bodice, and pull your strings of the basting stitch to make the sleeve gather till it fits within the arm of the bodice. And pin it.</div>
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It should look similar to this when you are done. Nevermind the white strips of fabric around the bottom of the bodice pieces in the next couple of photos. I had changed my mind about my design and took that off before finishing the dress. Don't forget to finish your edges with a zig zag or overlock stitch as you go to keep your fabric from getting stringy when you wash.</div>
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Next, you will sew down the sides of your sleeves and bodice. Just match up the right sides and start at the sleeves to make sure they match up nicely and sew straight down till you get to the end of the side of your bodice. Do this on both sides.</div>
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Now to hem your sleeves. I cut mine on the selvage, so I just folded it under once, but if you didn't do that you'll need to fold it under twice then stitch.</div>
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Now you are ready to sew your lining to the inside of your bodice. Make sure you match the right sides together and pin around the neck and back of the bodice. If you left an extra inch or two at the back of the bodice for strengthening the place where your buttons and button holes will go, then be sure to allot for that in your seam allowance back there.</div>
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Now you need to clip the edges of the corners and snip little nicks into the fabric (not past the stitch you just made) around the curve of the neck, so that it lays down nicely when you turn the bodice right side out.</div>
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Now, I don't always do this, but for some reason I decided I didn't want any raw edges of lining inside this dress, so I folded it under and top stitched around the sleeves.</div>
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Here is what I did. First I took my 1/4" elastic and my little girl and stretched it around her waist till we reached an agreed comfort level.</div>
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Then I cut it where it needed to that length, plus 1/2 inch for seam allowance.</div>
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Next, I measured how wide I wanted the waistband to be, plus 1/2 inch on top and bottom for seam allowance. </div>
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Then I stretched that piece of elastic out onto the waistband fabric until I got it was not quite all the way tight. Just a little less than fully tightly stretched. I marked it on the fabric and cut my fabric by that length and width I just figured.</div>
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And I cut 4 more pieces of elastic.</div>
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Finally I spaced them out equally the length of the waistband and zig zag stitched them into place. Stretching them as I sewed.</div>
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Then I sewed the ends together to make a circle and pinned it to the bodice, stretching it as needed.</div>
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Stitched it into place. Make sure to overlap the back of the bodice accordingly for the buttons and button holes and you may want to stitch it together there before you sew the waistband on. That's what I did.</div>
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When I saw the <a href="http://www.projectrunplay.com/" target="_blank">Project Run and Play</a> challenge this month was a bubble dress my mind immediately drifted to this red polka dot fabric I had used to make <a href="http://bymamawithlove.blogspot.com/2015/01/christmas-projects.html" target="_blank">Lenore's Christmas outfit.</a> </div>
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I knew it would make a cute bubble skirt and be perfect for a Valentine's Day outfit too.</div>
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But I also knew a lot of people would be making skirts. Whether or not they would be tiered I wasn't sure. But I wanted to submit an outfit that would be different from the rest, so I decided to go ahead with <a href="http://bymamawithlove.blogspot.com/2015/01/a-summer-outfit-for-kai.html" target="_blank">Kai's bubble shirt</a>. </div>
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After reading that you could submit more than one entry I decided to see if I could find the time to make a tiered bubble dress by the deadline. I had fun playing with the design. Deciding how long to make each tier, whether or not to add sleeves, and what kind of sleeves I wanted it to have was a lot of fun.<br />
Between the Cub Scouts Space Derby, Kai selling 800 boxes of Girl Scout cookies, and the flu hitting our family for the second time, to say that I've been busy is quite the understatement. But I burned the midnight oil and managed to get this pretty little dress finished in time. </div>
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I made<a href="http://bymamawithlove.blogspot.com/2015/01/tiered-bubble-dress-tutorial.html" target="_blank"> a tutorial for this dress</a>. You can find it<a href="http://bymamawithlove.blogspot.com/2015/01/tiered-bubble-dress-tutorial.html" target="_blank"> here</a>. I did take pictures along the way.</div>
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I decided to shirr some white cotton for the waist, because the thought of gathering 6 layers of fabric for the skirt to sew to the bodice just didn't sit well with me. Instead of using elastic thread I used 1/4 inch elastic. And we just love the flexibility it gave me with playing around with the bodice. I was able to shorten and widen it a bit to give it a blousy feel. Carolina loves the way it hugs her abdomen so comfortably. </div>
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My husband recently removed some shirts from his closet, that he no longer wanted and thoughtfully cut the buttons off to save for my sewing supplies before making rags out of the shirts. </div>
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I was glad too, because I wanted small white buttons for the back of the dress, and thanks to him I already had them. </div>
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When I was sewing I happened to toss the dress on top of another project I had on the sewing table that had this turquoise fabric and thought it looked so well together I decided to make a little flower to go on the dress.</div>
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