Pouches for Cancer

My family and I are active each year in a Relay for Life in honor of those we love who have been lost or had to deal with cancer. My wonderful first husband and father of my 4 blessings was lost to colon cancer in 2013. This year I decided to make some Bellevue Pouches for the silent auction and to sell at our team table. I did 3 colors, purple is the color of Relay, pink for Breast cancer and blue for colon cancer. I added an embroidered ribbon to match.

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Cute joggers and sweatshirt dress!

Back in November I visited a cute little fabric store about 40 minutes from my house. I picked up some adorable fleece lined sweatshirt fabric with great intentions and then it sat in my closet until now. I finally picked up some ribbing fabric and got up the nerve to try to sew it. I could not be more pleased with these two cute projects!  The fabric is Avalana sweat by Stof Fabrics.

For the joggers I didn’t use a pattern, just some pajama pants we already had as an outline. My daughter usually wears a uniform but had a dress down day a few weeks ago so she was SO excited to wear these to school.

I then wanted to make my other daughter something but she didn’t want to be matchy matchy with her sister. I found this adorable pattern on Tye Dye Diva’s and loved it. I will definitely use it again!

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Sewing Swap!

I am participating in my first sewing swap. This was set up via Instagram using a set of patterns called Minikins designed by Sara over at www.sewsweetness.com. There are a lot of patterns and you can choose anyone you want. I decided to do the desktop cube (small and medium). I’m also adding a cute little eyeglass case I recently sewed as part of the Sew Sweetness cork club. I’m a little obsessed right now!

Here are the goodies:

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My first post!

Hello. Years ago I had a craft blog, mostly about card making and scrapbooking but I thought I’d do a new one to “start over”.

I started sewing about a year ago and have just fell in love with it. I still love paper crafting but do find it hard to find time but hope to work on some scrapbooks this year.

My most recent sewing project is a gift for my best friend for her birthday. She loved cows when we were growing up and I thought this fabric was so cute that I found at Joann Fabrics so I couldn’t pass it up! The pattern is from Sara at www.sewsweetness.com. It is part of her minikins bundle and it is the cotton candy pouch. I love the pattern and plan to make more of this pattern.

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