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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Sewing for Boys

I just started sewing a year and a half ago and most of my projects have been for my girls but I wanted to make something special for my son for his 17th birthday. He is a huge sports fan, especially for our hometown teams, like his dad was.  I purchased fabrics from Joann Fabrics for each of his favorite teams, Washington Redskins, Washington Nationals, Washington Wizards, Washington Capitals and Maryland Terrapins. Luckily Sara over at Sew Sweetness had a great pattern that would allow me to use all 5 teams!

I used Sara’s motopouch pattern from her minikins set. I did have to increase the width of the top and bottom panels by 2 inches but it worked out perfect. I love how it turned out. My sons a typical teenager so he basically just said thanks but I’m sure he loved it.

I laminated the lining fabric using Pellon Vinyl Fuse so it will not get messy and can be wiped out!

I’d love to hear, how do you sew for the boys or men in your life?

Desktop (or nightstand :-) cube

I decided to make my hubby a cute desktop cube to put on his nightstand.  It turned out cute in his favorite Jeep fabric (Riley Blake). I think I’ll end up making the other sizes to go along with it. He’s using it to keep his deodorant and cologne it and it works perfect, no more knocking them off then having to look under the bed for them!

This pattern is part of Sew Sweetness’ minikins collection. I’m slowly working my way through each pattern and am loving it. 

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Have I mentioned how much I love the minikins?

I am OBSESSED with trying to get through each pouch in the minikins set by Sara at www.sewsweetness.com

This months focus pouch is the sidewinder. I can’t lie, I made one and it was an epic fail!  So bad I will not even take a picture of it. So I tried a different pouch and then went back and made a new sidewinder pouch. Much, much better!  Now note, I am still new (how long do I get to keep saying that???) and I’m using a simple Singer sewing machine. I have learned recently that can really be a challenge because the “throat” of the machine does not give much room for bulk when sewing bags. I guess I’ll have to start selling products so I can save up for a new industrial machine! Ha! Right. Between work and the 4 kids, 2 dogs, etc. I’m sure that will happen!

Here is my sidewinder pouch. This is for my Moo girl, she loves turquoise so I had to add her favorite color.

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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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