And The Winner Is......

I want to thank everyone who stopped by and entered my give away. I wish I had prizes for all of you. I am planning more give aways in the future. I am also planning more tutorials and free patterns. I hope you will all come by often.

My youngest daughter's first assignment this morning was do be my 'live number generator". Isn't she a cute one?

And the winner is Happy Cottage Quilter. Congratulations! I will get your goodies in the mail asap.



I have a lot of errands to run today, but I really want to sew. I am gonna get back to my string quilt. I would like to get this finished so I can get it on my daughter's bed. I am also planning on painting a mural on the walls in her room. I will be sharing this with you.

Happy Sewing!
Susan

Another Finish

I started making a laptop bag for my oldest daughter back in March. It was for her birthday. Her boyfriend actually gave her the laptop. She picked out the fabric and told me how she wanted it. I made my own pattern. It is not perfect, but I know how I would change things next time. I love getting things off my "to finish" list. This weekend has been busy and productive. I made a dress, flip flops and finished this bag. Yahoo! I think I will get back to working on my string quilt this week.

Happy Sewing, my friends!
Susan

Matching Flip Flops

I wanted to Faith to have some matching flip flops to wear with her new dress, so I whipped these up last night. I will be making a tutorial showing how I made these soon. I think she will look so cute wearing these to church today.

Happy Sewing!
Susan

My Birthday Sewing.

For my Birthday, I just wanted some 'fun sewing' time. No sewing for clients, no sewing class samples and no teaching. I just wanted to sew what I wanted to sew. I went to Joann's on Friday night and paid full price....yes, full price for the fabric and the pattern. I never do that. Oh well. It was my birthday. I sewed some yesterday, after I finally finished the "drapery redo". I sewed til late last night, then finished today. Tonight I made some matching flip flops. I will be making a tutorial for them soon. I am so happy she will get to wear it to church in the morning.

Don't forget to enter my give away if you haven't all ready.

I'm off to bed. Good night friends,
Susan

The dress is Simplicity 2677 (I think)

100th Post Give Away

I know I have been gone a while. I have been dealing with some new situations in my life. I have been having night time anxiety attacks, something I have never had before. I have done some research and I believe it is one of my lovely pre-menopausal symptoms. Fun, I know. Speaking of menopause...today is my Birthday. I am 47 years young today. Even more reason for a give away. I can't believe that this is my 100th post.

For my give away I am giving a really nice Fat Quarter Book, a Machine Embroidery Magazine (complete with patterns), two new spools of thread, a really cute purse pin, a new pack of quilting safety pins, 5 fat quarters and a purse pattern. Here is how you can enter:

1. Post a comment telling me you would like to enter.

2. Become one of my followers and comment telling me that you are a follower and get another entry.

3. Mention my give away on your blog and link to mine an you will get two additional entries.

So, it is possible to get your name entered four times. Good luck to everyone. Be sure you leave a way for me to contact you.

I will hold the drawing a week from today.

Now I am heading to my sewing studio for some fun sewing.

Happy Sewing my friends.

We're Planning a Tea Party

One of my daughters is turning eleven this week. She asked if she could have a tea party for her birthday party. After thinking about it, I decided that a tea party is a very economical party to have. We are borrowing plates, cups and tea pots from a friend. We are making finger foods and tea. I think we have enough stuff around the house to decorate the table. The party is going to be this Saturday. I will be sure and post photos.

Now, for those of you have been following my blog, you are not going to believe this. Those drapes that I was commissioned to make and took me over a month to finish... Well....they are BACK!!! Yes, Back! The client had her husband measure the old drapes and guess what? He measured them wrong. The rod pocket was supposed to be 3" but he wrote down 2". I am so glad that I got it in writing. Thankfully there was a little fabric left over. Now I have to "unsew" the rod pocket and add a strip of fabric to the back and make the pocket bigger. Oh well, atleast it wasnt my fault. That would have been awful.

Not much sewing going on in the studio today. The girls and I weeded the front flower bed. I am hoping to make the birthday girl and new dress for the tea party. I already have the fabric and the pattern, now all I need is more time.

What I've Been Up To

One of my student's Quilt As You Go Baby Quilt

Yesterday, I taught my Quilt As You Go Baby Quilt pattern at Fabric Warehouse in Lakeland, Florida. I truly, truly love teaching sewing and quilting. I have done so many things in my life. I have been a Barber/Stylist, Tupperware Executive Manager, Preschool teacher and of course Stay at Home Mom/Home Educator. I have finally found what I want to do long term, teach sewing and quilting and design patterns. I just love it. The people that you meet are so nice and I just love what I do.

I am still planning my UFO Challenge and looking for the perfect gifts. I promise to get back to you soon about the details.


The inspiration dress for a patchwork dress for my little girl


Now that I am have finished that drapery order. I am planning my next projects. I am still working on my dresden plates quilt and planning some more projects with Dresden Plates. I want to teach a Dresden plates class this summer. I am also wanting to sew for my girls. My youngest is almost 8 years old and I am quickly going to run out of little girls to sew for. I have planned so many dresses in the past that never came to be and I just want to make the time to sew for them more.
I am showing a picture of a dress that I saw in a Children's store last year. The picture is not that great, as I took it with my Iphone. I hope you can see it well enough. It is a patchwork design on the bias and the yoke is made with wide grossgrain ribbon. This is my inspiration for a dress I am planning. I actually went out and bought fabric and ribbon right after I saw this dress. I just need to adapt a pattern to make it work. I think it is going to be fun to make. Well, I guess I should stop blogging and go give the girls their school assignments for the day and get in the studio.

Happy Sewing!!
Susan