About a year ago I was taking sewing classes and sewed my first dress. Post here. Well yesterday I decided to change that dress to a skirt and I love it even more!
Showing posts with label sewing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sewing. Show all posts
Apr 22, 2012
Apr 12, 2012
My day has been sew sew
Because of this...
(Jordan's Uniform)
I have been having a sew sew day.
Jordan's first day out on the road with his field training officers is next Monday. I have been busy sewing away altering ALL of his uniforms. He has 4 short sleeve and 4 long sleeve tops that are all too large and 4 pairs of pants that are all too small in the waist and too long in the legs. You would think because they measured him that his uniforms would fit perfectly right? WRONG! All of his friends are having to go to a seamstress and pay $15 per article of clothing to get theirs altered. NO WAY was I about to spend $180 for something I could do myself. I took his shirts in, hemmed up and took out the waist in all of his pants. Well, to be honest I had never taken pants out at the waist and had no idea how, but thanks to youtube I learned in 5 minutes which produced great results. (I was still nervous though). It is days like today that I am so grateful that I know how to sew just so I don't have to spend $180.
Jun 2, 2011
My first dress
Sadly I had my last sewing lesson on Monday. My teacher is going back to school to get her masters and also working full time so needless to say she wont have time to give sewing lessons anymore. For my last project I decided to make a dress. It was very challenging at first and not until I finished did it really look like a dress.
I'm thinking about putting a colored ribbon just under the bust line (maybe pink or red)
front top
front bottom
back top
back bottom
Apr 18, 2011
successful sundays
If I'm able to sew and bake then my day has been successful :) Today I decided to sew a bib for my niece's first birthday which we'll be celebrating this coming Friday. I've been pretty good at teaching myself to sew, but I've recently been taking sewing lessons and boy have they helped me bunches. I'm much more confident in my abilities and I feel like I sort of know what I'm doing. I'm still a beginner so I still have lots to learn. Here's how it turned out. Hopefully it'll be covered with cake and frosting on Friday.
As for my baking....I made Peanut Butter Patty cupcakes. I had a box of the girl scout cookies and I went to town. It's an original recipe created by ME!! That's right, I didn't look at anybody else's recipe, but created my own. They turned out delicious. It's a shortbread cupcake, creamy peanut butter filling, and a whipped chocolate ganache. I decided to incorporate the cookies by crushing them up and putting some in the filling and some on top of the frosting.
Slowly but surely I'm building up my own recipes...I love successful Sundays.
Nov 29, 2010
Projects
This last week has been full of fun stuff. For Thanksgiving I made Turkey cupcakes.
They turned out so cute. The leaves around the turkey are cornflakes covered in green frosting, the turkey is made out of caramel with a mound of frosting underneath to plump it up, the drumsticks are wheat sticks with caramel, and the stuffing is just grape nuts. Very fun!
On Black Friday Jordan went out and bought me my Christmas present which I'm already using....a new camera. I'm in love :) I got the Canon PowerShot SD1400IS
The week was also full of fun sewing projects and putting up Christmas decorations.
I made this to go over the couch arm to store our remotes.
I sewed my very first table runner...very easy and it looks great!
I made a pillow to add some red to our green house.
Our tree LOL! Thanks mom. I made little presents to go around.
This is our picture frame in which I fill with different things depending on the season.
Some more holiday decorations. This advent calendar has legos in each drawer...Jordan's going to love this.
I was also able to finish Jordan's mission board. I took things from his mission and put them together to display. Here's the other side.
It was a busy week, but I enjoyed being with family and being creative.
On Black Friday Jordan went out and bought me my Christmas present which I'm already using....a new camera. I'm in love :) I got the Canon PowerShot SD1400IS
The week was also full of fun sewing projects and putting up Christmas decorations.
Sep 21, 2010
What's With all the Homemaking?
When I was younger I always watched how my mom would clip and use coupons, cook every meal, bake yummy treats, sew or mend multiple things for everyone, and keep a clean house. I believe I always noticed this, but didn't really care to learn how to cook, bake, or sew. So why all of a sudden am I into all of these things? A very good question I'm contemplating right now.
I was always into sports, high jumping in particular, and school. My brain was so focused on advancing in those two areas that anything else seemed like a waste of time. Once I got married, things changed a little. I felt like I wanted to keep a really clean and organized house. Jordan did most of the cooking because he was home before I was in the evening. Since I've been graduated I have this desire to cook for the two of us. Believe it or not, I really enjoy planning meals and grocery shopping. I think it's the organization of it all that I love so much plus the excitement of saving a few dollars with coupons.
I can't really pin point why I started baking cupcakes. All I know is that once I started I became addicted. Then I wanted to learn how to decorate them so I took a cake decorating class. Next came the obsession with scrapbooking. I have scrapbooked since I was in primary, but I feel now I am way more elaborate with it all. Now I have a new found passion for sewing. I just got my first sewing machine and I just finished my first official sewing project. After 20 hours of making a purse, I can honestly say that I think sewing is going to be another addiction. I had so much fun making my purse and learned so much.
I felt like I did a pretty good job on my first project being a beginner sewer. My mother-in-law was generous to buy all the material and supplies for me. I started at 5:00pm Saturday night and 20 hours later (Sunday afternoon) I finished. I got the tutorial here.
I'm proud of myself because I learned how to put a zipper in, put a pocket in, make darts, make pleats, and make ruffles all by myself (well with the help of the computer).
After I finished my purse I kept thinking how weird it is for me to be wanting to learn all of these homemaking skills. I say weird because a year or two ago I was so involved in other things. I guess a change is always good. I think the reason is because I have the time now to learn all these skills that will benefit my future family and kids cause I know once kids come along there's not going to be much time to learn new hobbies.
I was always into sports, high jumping in particular, and school. My brain was so focused on advancing in those two areas that anything else seemed like a waste of time. Once I got married, things changed a little. I felt like I wanted to keep a really clean and organized house. Jordan did most of the cooking because he was home before I was in the evening. Since I've been graduated I have this desire to cook for the two of us. Believe it or not, I really enjoy planning meals and grocery shopping. I think it's the organization of it all that I love so much plus the excitement of saving a few dollars with coupons.
I can't really pin point why I started baking cupcakes. All I know is that once I started I became addicted. Then I wanted to learn how to decorate them so I took a cake decorating class. Next came the obsession with scrapbooking. I have scrapbooked since I was in primary, but I feel now I am way more elaborate with it all. Now I have a new found passion for sewing. I just got my first sewing machine and I just finished my first official sewing project. After 20 hours of making a purse, I can honestly say that I think sewing is going to be another addiction. I had so much fun making my purse and learned so much.
I felt like I did a pretty good job on my first project being a beginner sewer. My mother-in-law was generous to buy all the material and supplies for me. I started at 5:00pm Saturday night and 20 hours later (Sunday afternoon) I finished. I got the tutorial here.
I'm proud of myself because I learned how to put a zipper in, put a pocket in, make darts, make pleats, and make ruffles all by myself (well with the help of the computer).
After I finished my purse I kept thinking how weird it is for me to be wanting to learn all of these homemaking skills. I say weird because a year or two ago I was so involved in other things. I guess a change is always good. I think the reason is because I have the time now to learn all these skills that will benefit my future family and kids cause I know once kids come along there's not going to be much time to learn new hobbies.
Aug 28, 2010
New News
It has been a slightly busy week. On Monday we traded in our '03 Jeep Liberty and upgraded to an '06 Mazda 6. Jordan and I were both nervous just cause it's our first time buying a car. We really like it though! It gets more miles to the gallon (32 compared to 16), it's a safer car (ranked #1 this last year), it doesn't have over 100,000 miles (only 60,000), and it can hold 2 car seats comfortably (not that we will be using that feature anytime soon :) but this will be our car till we run it into the ground.
Yesterday I got my very first sewing machine. It's a Bernina 240. I have been researching and visiting sewing machine dealers for about 2 weeks. It's my graduation present from my parents and boy am I excited. I picked up the machine yesterday at 4, came straight home, then the rest of the night was just me and my machine. Jordan was very good to let me spend our date night with my new toy.
I start sewing classes in October and until then I'm just playing around with my machine trying to sew. I started my first project last night and finished it this morning. I made a headband out of a tie.
Because I don't have a lot of sewing accessories I made due with what I could find. The tie is one of Jordan's that he let me have, and the elastic that I put on the bottom is from a pair of Jordan's old pants. I found it fun trying to not spend any money and I got a new headband from it.
Yesterday I got my very first sewing machine. It's a Bernina 240. I have been researching and visiting sewing machine dealers for about 2 weeks. It's my graduation present from my parents and boy am I excited. I picked up the machine yesterday at 4, came straight home, then the rest of the night was just me and my machine. Jordan was very good to let me spend our date night with my new toy.
I start sewing classes in October and until then I'm just playing around with my machine trying to sew. I started my first project last night and finished it this morning. I made a headband out of a tie.
Because I don't have a lot of sewing accessories I made due with what I could find. The tie is one of Jordan's that he let me have, and the elastic that I put on the bottom is from a pair of Jordan's old pants. I found it fun trying to not spend any money and I got a new headband from it.
Jul 10, 2010
Colorado Springs
Last Friday Jordan and I drove down to Colorado Springs. Jordan's parents live in Colorado and his grandparents were going to be there for the week so we decided to drive down.
Saturday I finished up a scrapbook for my mother-in-law Heidi. She wanted a little scrapbook of her new grandchild and I offered to make her one if she bought all the supplies. Here is a few samples of the many pages.
Monday morning at 4am Jordan and I woke up to go hiking with his sister and brother-in-law. We drove for 30 minutes to start hiking Pikes Peak which is about 14,100ft. We started hiking the "Incline" at 5am. The incline is basically old railroad which look like steps going straight up the mountain. It was a mile of pretty much walking up stairs.
After the incline we headed towards Pike's Peak with about 10.5 miles left. It was a long hike. With about 3 miles to go Jordan got altitude sickness. So the last 2 miles we took a lot of breaks and made it to the top around 1pm.
Overall the hike was just long (13 miles), however, it was really cool at parts.
Wednesday Jordan and I went to the park with his dad and sister. Jordan started teaching me how to play tennis then he played a soccer game with his sister Riley while I practiced with his dad.
After playing tennis the whole family went out to eat at Texas Roadhouse to celebrate Jordan's Birthday. His birthday is the 10th but we decided to celebrate it on Wednesday. I made sure to tell his dad Randy to tell the waiter that it's Jordan's birthday because they bring out a saddle and make you sit on it. We got a picture, but I currently don't have a copy. Later that evening we ate the cake I made for Jordan. I bought a few of the cake supplies that I have been wanting and decided to use them to bake Jordan's cake. I didn't have any of my other decorating tools with me so I did my best with a ziplock bag.
We had originally planned to drive back Thursday, but we decided to stay a few extra days. Thursday I spent a lot of time learning how to sew. Heidi had cut out squares of Jordan's old t-shirts and blankets from when he was a child all the way up to college. I then took the t-shirt squares and sewed them together and made my first sewing project...a t-shirt quilt. I learned how to straight stitch, back stitch, and aplicae (spelling?) items onto other materials. After all the squares were sewn together, Heidi taught me how to put badding and the back of the quilt on. It was a great teaching project.
Today I spent most of the day on another project. Riley asked if I could make a shadow box of a picture of Braeyln and her. Again she bought the paper and I did the project. I think it turned out great, but the picture doesn't show the depth. There are a lot of things popping out.
Later in the afternoon we all went rock climbing at The Garden of the Gods. We were only able to do two routes until it started raining. The picture of Jordan below is from a few days earlier and we had it blown up and framed. We are going to climb again tomorrow and hopefully I can get a similar picture of myself to frame along side his.
Saturday I finished up a scrapbook for my mother-in-law Heidi. She wanted a little scrapbook of her new grandchild and I offered to make her one if she bought all the supplies. Here is a few samples of the many pages.
Monday morning at 4am Jordan and I woke up to go hiking with his sister and brother-in-law. We drove for 30 minutes to start hiking Pikes Peak which is about 14,100ft. We started hiking the "Incline" at 5am. The incline is basically old railroad which look like steps going straight up the mountain. It was a mile of pretty much walking up stairs.
After the incline we headed towards Pike's Peak with about 10.5 miles left. It was a long hike. With about 3 miles to go Jordan got altitude sickness. So the last 2 miles we took a lot of breaks and made it to the top around 1pm.
Overall the hike was just long (13 miles), however, it was really cool at parts.
Wednesday Jordan and I went to the park with his dad and sister. Jordan started teaching me how to play tennis then he played a soccer game with his sister Riley while I practiced with his dad.
After playing tennis the whole family went out to eat at Texas Roadhouse to celebrate Jordan's Birthday. His birthday is the 10th but we decided to celebrate it on Wednesday. I made sure to tell his dad Randy to tell the waiter that it's Jordan's birthday because they bring out a saddle and make you sit on it. We got a picture, but I currently don't have a copy. Later that evening we ate the cake I made for Jordan. I bought a few of the cake supplies that I have been wanting and decided to use them to bake Jordan's cake. I didn't have any of my other decorating tools with me so I did my best with a ziplock bag.
We had originally planned to drive back Thursday, but we decided to stay a few extra days. Thursday I spent a lot of time learning how to sew. Heidi had cut out squares of Jordan's old t-shirts and blankets from when he was a child all the way up to college. I then took the t-shirt squares and sewed them together and made my first sewing project...a t-shirt quilt. I learned how to straight stitch, back stitch, and aplicae (spelling?) items onto other materials. After all the squares were sewn together, Heidi taught me how to put badding and the back of the quilt on. It was a great teaching project.
Today I spent most of the day on another project. Riley asked if I could make a shadow box of a picture of Braeyln and her. Again she bought the paper and I did the project. I think it turned out great, but the picture doesn't show the depth. There are a lot of things popping out.
Later in the afternoon we all went rock climbing at The Garden of the Gods. We were only able to do two routes until it started raining. The picture of Jordan below is from a few days earlier and we had it blown up and framed. We are going to climb again tomorrow and hopefully I can get a similar picture of myself to frame along side his.
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