Friday Laundry

Love all the bag making fabric I bought. I love the section where every piece is $1.25 a pound. I bought six pounds and four pieces that were over a yard at $1.50 a yard. I was looking at my pile and I had picked out all blues and reds. I had to add a splash of color so I found a cute green. When I pulled the green out of the pile a bunch of twill white jumped out and joined the stack. I can use that twill for patches and stitch outs.

I spent most of friday washing fabric and regular laundry. I have to divide up my fabric and wash it separate so that way if my reds bleed, it won't kill the green etc. We have well water so, I always wash everything. Then I sat in fron of the TV and watched this Chef of Beverly Hills show and folded and clipped threads. My fabric always ends up in a twisted tangled mess after the dryer.

Today I have small chores to do before I can sew. The Hubby is mowing and then the window guys is coming, we're putting new windows in the house finally. Then we have a Bunny Hutch in the back yard that a friend is going to convert into a chicken coop, they going to pick it up this afternoon.

look what my husband brought home

My husband brought me home this hat. Gotta love the stickies. They are stapled to the hat where he wanted the designs. After I stopped laughing. I have to find this type of hat in grey and pale pink.

The grand daughters called today, they got their Hello Kitty wristlets (purses). They love them. Their Ninentendo DS fit in them perfect. I tried mine before I finished the bags.

I went shopping today to buy more home decor fabric to make more bags.

Front and Back of view. I found this great flamingo home decor fabric in Denver and Knew I would be making a bag(s) out of it. I changed up the pattern a little, the flamingos are directional so I didn't want them on the straps, so I rummanged through my strap stash and found this great hot pink.

I have two friends who don't know each other, but both love flamingos. This bag pattern is huge. The bag is 18 by 18 by 8. It's called a Market bag, it looks like my LL Bean bag.

See I have been sewing. I bought some Ladies T-Shirts to decorate tomorrow or Saturday for my trips. Men's shirts ride up my hips, so I'm always tugging them back down.

So checking the mail on the way back in the house and Joann's has a 50% off Home Decor Fabric starting next Sunday, 25 April. I'm gonna stock up and work on Christmas presents. The Market bag only took me 1 hour to cut out all the parts, then 2 hours to embroider and sew, Psst, that included the ironing. LOL

I'm going to post this on AmyLouWHo's Sew and Tell Friday. Maybe I'll be first, nope Mrs Moen is overseas, she always beats everybody to the punch. Love her stuff, I have a link on the left to see what everybody else made.

Digitizing in my Cave

I have been digitizing in my Cave and while I haven't been posting, I have been sewing. Now that some of the customers are happy I can post pics.

This is the Cebu City, Phillipines, LDS Temple. The temple is going to be dedicated on 13 June 2010. It is a tradition to have temple hankies, to commemorate the event at the dedication. I have been digitizing new temples, for other people to embroider and sell, most of the time the sale is used to buy stuff for the local church or church members. Cebu City is going to use the proceeds to buy temple clothes for loan/rentals. I also digitized the new Vancouver, British Columbia Temple. I can post pictures later.

I joined a bunch of Yahoo Groups for embroidery. An LDS Embroiery Group, a Pro Machine one, a Monogram Wizard and an Ellageo group. Each of these groups have given me great ideas.

I did a bunch of shirts. I have an order to make hats, the customer is picking out the hats.

Of course I digitized their logos for the shirts and hats.

I have also been teaching Genealogy at church and I have another class today 1-4.

I'm also getting my stuff together to travel next week. The Hubby and I go to Vegas for his conference and then once we're back I do laundry and repack my bag, I go see our son graduate from basic training. I can't believe it's been 7 weeks, since he left. I need to make me a Proud Army Mom shirt before I go. I made two great big huge, Market bags (also called Boat bags). I love them. But of course I never follow the pattern. I can buy a pattern or find one online and I change it before I even start cutting the fabric. Then Mid-sewing I change it again. This time the changes were good, I changed the seams to french seams and it is so much neater. The two I made so far are going to be Christmas Presents. I have two more to make for Mother's day. Hopefully while I'm in Vegas I'll find the perfect focus fabric, for the two Mother's day ones. I also calculated the pattern into the different sizes from in the LL Bean catalog. I have the cutting patterns and sizes all figured out. Now to find good home decor fabric. I need to run to Anderson Fabric in Blackduck, MN.

I better go and pack my bag for today. I have nails, dry cleaning, and then the class this afternoon. Date night with the Hubby. Busy lady.