Christmas with the kiddos: lyndonna

The youngest of the munchkins is lyndonna.

No that's not her real name but all her siblings got cool nicknames so she gets one too. 

Lyndonna is a little tiny baby girl, only three months old. So I decided that I could just whip something up for her. I thought it would be easy.

I WAS WRONG. 

I downloaded this free pattern, myrtle the turtle.

I went digging in my fabric chest looking for anything green. All I found was a flannel flower power print fabric. And the only fabric that complimented was an old pink shirt of my moms (thanks mom)

Since it's a knit shirt and I'm pairing it with a woven I decided to interface the prices to a quilting fabric that I was never going to use. 

Look at it...mocking me....

This little sucker was so incredibly hard to sew.

My machine wouldn't sew through it...so I had to hand sew it. 

I don't have any progress photos but I have a finished picture. 

Those eyes were an after thought..

Am I incredibly proud? Not really. 

Is this a turtle for a baby who won't even notice the lumps and wrinkles? Yeah, it is. 

ce la vie~ 🐢

And Speaking of Pants...

Doesn't everyone have a favorite pair of pants? 

maybe they're well worn and fuzzy feeling on the outsides, or stretchy in all the right places.

interesting knee details or fun pockets perfect for your day to day life. 

I have a few favorite, and on my oddest pair the button ripped off...

I found this pair at goodwill fresh man year and fell head over heals in love.

I don't know what it is about those useless over decorated pockets and oddly placed seems that made me swoon~

But oh do they make me swoon!

This hole was a big one, so I needed to darn it before attaching any thing to it. 

Or risk the chance of making it worse.

and then all that was left to do was choose a button.

It was a harder choice than you would think..

But I finally made up my mind!

Only to discover that during the three months these pants were sitting in my project bin I grew two pants sizes.

Know anyone size six who wants over-detailed, low-rise, flare-legs?

Un-sweet sweeties.

My boyfriend's grandma is just the sweetest thing in the world.

And in a strange twist of irony she's diabetic. So my normal back up plan of buying candy wouldn't work. 

So I /of course/ made a bag. 

And filled it with non edible sweeties. 

Insta-dry nail polish and apple pie flavored lip balm. 

and the Youtube video I used for this bag is here~

The only change I made to The Crafty Gemini's tutorial is I did not interface.

My courdoroy fabric was very stable so I didn't really need it.

Also I didn't use her measurements. 

I just sorta eyeballed it.

~I'm quite proud~

Another excuse to buy candy.

In mid-project I decided to organize my ribbons.

It was a well needed 

I decided that I wanted to be able to easily browse my ribbons and notions.

I also wanted to buy gummy Sharks.

So I up-cycled the cardboard container for the gummy into a ribbon holder. 

So neat and tidy~ 

For this tutorial you'll need

~unruly ribbons~

~a candy box~

~scissors~

~and tape~

First you cut off the sides of your box 

Then you use some kind of straight edge to mark were your notches will  go.

I used the skinny side of the box. Even though there was a perfectly good ruler in the drawer next to me. 

 Oh well. 

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Cut your notches. 

Tape your ribbon to the card. It makes it easier to wrap it. 

Then you just wrap it and tie it off when you get to the end of the ribbon. 

Cerial boxes work just as well, but candy is more fun! 

How do you store your ribbons? I have seen lots of great methods.

A Wonderfully Wicked Birthday

Out of all the modern Musical greats Wicked is by far the most well loved.

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And it's so clear why!
Oh I could talk for hours about this musical!

But I'll get to the point.

 My dear friend and fellow Musical theater lover Abby turned 18 I knew I had to blow her socks off!
and what better way than with a Wicked themed gift bag!

Here's everything I put together for her~

 She has an enthusiasm for motivational posters
also I wanted an excuse to water color
So I made this "card ish thing.

I think it's a card...

And I combed through Pintrest to find this tutorial.
buuut I used it more like a guideline.
Since I only needed a little bit.

and I added vanilla~

the main part of the gift though was a home made cosmetics bag!
This post and this video were super helpful!
 

I also cut out a cardboard bottom and glued my lining fabric to it.
Since I forgot to interface....

And of course I wrote a Wikked quote on it!

Also I happened to have some of my emergency flower hair clips laying around.

All in all its a pretty great gift bag, if I do say so myself!

Pants party

As you know if you read this post I recently Costumed 1776 the musical. 

And that means I sewed pants.

Colonial era pants.   

I forgot about these more or less until I brought them up to my Insta buddy Kate.

She was intrigued, as she should be.

So I held a fashion shoot and brought sexy back to the colonial era!


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Honestly I feel like the world would be a better place if there were more fun pants!

I drafted the pattern myself, it's just two seams and three channels with elastic strung though.

Oh and look at that Jabot~

 And this one will have a matching hat eventually. 

There's a bit of a side project in the works.

*cough cough* You- Tube mini series *cough cough*

The man that wore thes in 1776 managed to rip them three times... 

But whats a musical without some ripped seams and frayed nerves!

and My lovely assistant Annette helped me though all of the rough patches.

She also sewed three pairs of pants! 

I have some odd things lurking in my closet 

What strange things do you have hiding in your closet?

A late costume

In my recent absence I actually got a bit of sewing done, I just haven't been taking good pictures. 

Sorry. 

So obviously for Halloween I made my own costume. 

How could I resist?

Sorry for the low camera quality.

But doesn't it read a bit star-wars? 

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The fabric is a polyester tablecloth from goodwill and some "no pill" brown fleece from Walmart. The brown trim around the edges is "satin blanket binding" also from Walmart. 

AND THE BUTTONS 

 I got these beauties at a going-out-of-business sale. 

oh! and even though i was crazy busy I managed to take a picture while I was in the progress of making the cloak! 

I evened out that uneven length when I hemmed it, don't worry!

Everything else was just clothing that I already had in my closet. Along with a pretty stellar paint job ;) 

sadly I only have two pictures from the night I wore it. And both of them are from snap-chat. 

When will I learn!