Finished scripture Bag

I finished the bag for my friend's autistic son, this afternoon. I want to bring it to him tomorrow at church. I made it a touch big so he can cram his cars and such in the bag. I placed my scriptures in the bag to make sure everything worked. That's why the bag is standing on it's own.

I made notes and doodles and I worked on the bag. I decided to square off the corners versus the curves.

My hubby wanted me to add a bunch more embroideries of Robots, by Dakota Collectibles, but I wanted to finish the bag in time for church tomorrow.

So now is time to type up my notes and plan which photos to take while making the next one for the tutorial. My notes have color choices, start and stop numbers inside the embroidery designs.

CTR and Scriptures

I began to draft a new Scripture bag. Sunday I found my youth to give the new case to. I find it's easier to have someone in mind to make a bag. Christian turned 8 this summer and needs a new bag, I had been wanting to make him one. So I asked him Mom, and she asked him his favorite color. He is Autistic, so lots of textures. So today I cut out the pieces and embroidered his name in primary colors and then I put the letters CTR together from a puzzle alphabet. The puzzle is the autistic symbol, like a pink ribbon is for breast cancer.

The puzzle alphabet had the letters filled in, but I decided I liked the look and feel of just the blocks without the lettering filled in. I should have stopped and not stitched out the black border. Because of my putting the pieces together, the border wasn't just right. I also should have used matching thread in the bobbin. The duck cloth holds embroidery, but in a few small spots, you could see white bobbin thread.

CTR stands for the saying, Choose the Right. I liked how this will make this pocket pop. The colors are poppy red, bright blue and daffodil yellow. I'm going to add a Velcro closure to the pocket, to hold his music player. The music in his ear helps him sit for longer times at church and school. So far I like the duck cloth much better than the cordura. I'm debating whether to have the zipper the same as the last bag or long like my hubby's bag, the zipper goes all the way to the bottom of the bag to fold out holding the scriptures.

There is a storm rolling in from the Dakotas and the hubby and I are taking the kids to the movies, so finishing the embroidery and cutting out all the parts fit well for today's project.

Shirts and more Shirts

Today was a very productive day. I finished lots of shirts. Some for a friend for the Annual All School reunion., the hot pink on the black shirt is great.

The red T-Shirt started as a joke, when I was going to my son's graduation from Army basic training. I told my mother-in-law that I was going to make shirts that said Proud ARMY Mom in Air Force blue. Many of you don't know that military service runs in the family. We have two son's in the Army, a son-in-law in the Navy, my Husband retired from the Air Force and I spent 15 years in the Air Force. The boys' grandfather on their Mom's side was a retired Marine E-9 Chief or Top. So the red shirt says Proud ARMY grandma, but is in Marine red and gold.

Then my Husband who is on vacation, while our son is here, bough some t-shirts and asked me to put more tanks on them. The son on leave is an Abraham M1-A1 tank driver. So two more shirts.

Then our daughter is going to work for my friend at the new game shop and I made her two work polos. I also had one more polo for another friend for his shop.

Wow, long two weeks

I was busy getting ready for a quick flight to Georgia to visit the grandkids (parents too). Then One of the boys is here. His sister picked him up Friday at the airport, and they went to the movies Saturday before we got back from Georgia Sunday. The Hubby is home on vacation.

I sewed out a few shirts and such, but with the house full it's hard to close the door (ohh yah, my door doesn't close, to much stuff in the way. It's okay to laugh at me, because I laugh at me.

Weds I got my grubby hands on my copy of 5D Professional software by Viking. I read the booklets and ohhed and ahhed while the software loaded on my laptop. I'm pretty pleased. Yes, it's expensive, but I can take it off my taxes. I've tried other programs. I like this best. It might be because I made a fabulous friend at the Viking dealer and she shows me new stuff and has a monthly class. Yes sometimes, it's review for me, but I always learn something new. A new technique or another way to look at stuff.

I loaded MyFonts with the quick fonts wizard and only had a few problems. One is that my 4D pro wasn't really working on my desktop, for a bit, I had to keep fixing the locking out my dongle problem which was annoying. It got to be faster to just grab my laptop. I uploaded 5D on the desktop and no dongle problem. (well maybe a little dongle problem). Excewpt my most recent files are on the laptop. I need to run a backup and merge of my embroidery files. Pain in the pat-tootie. I do need to do it, because we get power blips in the Great North Woods.

New Problem: where did I leave my dongle? I'm downstairs by my sewing room and the dongle is upstairs by my laptop. Yes laugh at me. I was thinking I need a lanyard around my neck for the dongle, or one of those zipline things for name tags. I have one somewhere, from my old job, where I had to swipe my badge to open doors.

Well I'm gonna go deliver some shirts and then start some more shirts. I only have one more job, then I can work on my own stuff. I want to make more zipper bags. I have a design for a stationary folder for the boys running around my head. Maybe they will write home more often if I give them a full stationary kit. I also want to make them an embroidered shave kit. The youngest comes home with only the clothes on his back and his game stuff. I fill the bathroom cabinet with stuff, because he always needs a new toothbrush when he gets here.