Flour Sack Towel

I've been out of blogging for a while. Busy with work, baby, house, laundry etc....but I did have time to finish one of my flour sack decorative dish towels tonight while Harper played.

Little Girl Christmas Stocking

Tonight I finally finished Harper's Christmas stocking! I chose a red quilted fabric for the main portion of the stocking. The inside is a tan material - I originally wanted to use burlap, but I thought this would be easier to work with. I then added a little ruffle with the fun green, red and pink snowflake fabric. And lastly, I added the fun green ball strip as a cute detail. I think it turned out pretty well. I wanted to make a heel and toe with the snowflake fabric, but my sewing machine wasn't really cooperating on that one, so I skipped it. Next year I may remake my stocking and Will's as well...but I won't have time to do that this year!

Samson's New Christmas Stocking

I wanted to make Samson his own stocking. Last year I tried to find a dog stocking I liked, but they were all cheesy. So I found my inspiration here. I decided to use felt instead of fake fur for my outer part of the stocking. On the inside I picked a fabric that had a burlap look to it but was more of a thinner canvas.

Finished product!

Got Bags?

I don't know what it is like in your house, but in ours we seem to always have an overabundance of grocery bags in our closet in our kitchen. I save them to pick up Samson's treasures (I wish they were that). They were always falling down when I opened the door. So I had seen somewhere (I think on Etsy) someone who had created a holder for all those plastic bags. I decided this would be a perfect project for my new sewing machine. I used about half a yard of green canvas for the body of the bag and then added this fun strip of fabric to the canvas to give it a little more beauty. I pinned down the strip of fabric and folded the top of the green canvas over so I could sew that as well. Also, I pinned down bottom part of canvas to sew as well (with enough room inside to slide a strip of elastic into it).

After I sewed all of those seams, I folded the canvas in half with the right side of the fabric on the inside and prepared to sew down the open ends.
Once I sewed down the open sides of the fabric, I cut the extra scrap off.

Next, I attached a safety pin to a long strip of elastic and thread it through the wider opening at the bottom of the fabric.

Then, I pulled it tight and sewed it closed and in place.

This way the bags stay in place until you are ready to pull them out.

I attached a ribbon at the top for it to hang from. Here is the finished product, bags and all.

I think it turned out pretty cute and no more bags falling out of the closet!

Overall, I am pretty pleased with my new sewing machine. I do have a lot to still learn on it though...

A New Arrival

My new sewing machine arrived in the mail yesterday. I ordered it from Overstock on Tuesday night and it came in two days! I'm excited to work on a few projects on it over Spring Break - which started yesterday at 4:00. I'm off work all next week and I'm so excited because Will also took the week off. I should have time to do a lot of posting in the next week...