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Christmas Rundown (this is it, I swear!)

January 8th, 2010

Sometimes I wonder where my head is at when I’m doing these blog posts! I totally forgot to showcase my favorite gift I made for Christmas — this awesome purple corduroy purse!

I made this for my sister, who loves large tote bags for purses. When I came across the Wasp pattern from Machen/Machen I knew it would be the perfect fit for my sister! You can find the pattern here: Wasp Bag. The picture above doesn’t really do it justice … the color was this deep purple, and I lined it with a hot pink/gold swirl fabric and topped it off with matching hot pink buttons on both sides!

While the pattern definitely took a good amount of time to complete, I’ve decided that I’m definitely going to make another one of these for myself … perhaps with a canvas or outdoor type fabric!

This weekend I’m going to be working on some more aprons, and giving my first go at some baby items for a special order! Look for a new post on Monday!

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Christmas Rundown (Part 2)

January 4th, 2010

One of my New Years resolutions this year is to finish all unfinished crafts and to post at least once a week. To ensure that I post, I have scheduled an hour for myself every Sunday to sit down and write out a review of that week’s crafts. This week I didn’t do any crafts (I really needed a break!). So this post will be dedicated to all of the Christmas crafts that I still haven’t written about, thus satisfying two of my many resolutions.

A friend of mine recently gave me her old prom dress and asked if I could refashion it into something else.

I held onto it for awhile, trying to decide what exactly I would do with it. Then as I was reading my RSS feed one day, I came across this beautiful ruffled skirt pattern from June Bug Baby. How adorable is that!?

As soon as I saw it I knew I had to use the prom dress to make my friend’s daughter a festive skirt for the Christmas season! And after about an hour of ruffling and sewing, this was the end result:

Needless to say, the skirt turned out to be so freaking cute!

Next up, we have a couple of wine bags a few of my friends ordered for holidays.

These bags are so easy to make, and a great gift to give for family and friends.

I made this last one for my Aunt Yvonne. She was lucky enough to have me draw her name in our Secret Santa pull.

On hers I decided to add a little flair, sewing on a small rosette made from felt.

I also gave her a scarf, like the ones that I made for homecoming.

I was able to make four of these from 2.5 yards of t-shirt fabric, so a couple of my friends got them too!

There were so many other crafty items that I made for Christmas presents, but with the big time crunch I wasn’t able to take pictures of them all. However, I was able to sneak a quick picture of my mom donning her Christmas apron on Christmas day that my dad ordered for her. Doesn’t she look festive for the holidays!!