The Imaginative Seamstress

This past Thursday we had a Baby Shower for my Sister's first Baby. The day before the shower, I asked my Mom if we could do something she'd done at a shower long ago. There was this picture that I remembered seeing. It had been taken at a shower which Mom had hosted, like 25 years ago. The object of the game was to scoop as many cotton balls out of a pot and onto your head as was possible (in 30 seconds), while blind folded. The blind fold was what made the game. It had a large set of eyes on it that made the wearer look hilarious! I wanted to recreate the game they were playing in that picture! However the picture was only in my memory. We searched Mom's photo books and did not find it. It must be one of my Aunties who has the picture in my memory. Mom and I recreated the mask by memory and we all had fun playing the game at the shower!! Mom and I recreated the blindfold with large eyes! My Sissy decorating

Among my sewing pictures I have found these random pictures that I just feel like posting to the blog...  :-)  I thought this one was pretty... and I didn't even look through the viewer! It was just a test shot before using the camera :-) My recent thread haul from the fabric store. I waited for the sale!!! :-) I will be back for the next big sale in September! Woo hoo!! Pajama pants I made for a friend's little boy (on the left), and a pair for my daughter (on the right) My Marigolds Just playing with the new camera lens :-)  This is a makeshift wreath I made out of an old curtain. Its a really large rolled rosette. The flower itself measures about 13" across. I put it on my front door. If anyone cares to know how I did this, I can show pics :-) 3  A friend ordered a suit from me and she was sooo pleased with it that she sent me this in the mail :-) So sweet!  I gave Jubilee a treat for being such a per...

So true!!! Here is what I was distracted by on Sunday night... The Hubby suggested we go through boxes in our guestroom, and by the end of the night, I was sewing!!!  I have boxes of fabrics for up-cycling into different things. You may find an old dress of mine, or a skirt, shirts, pants.. some of which were ruined by a stain and I figured I'd turn the good fabric into something else 'one day'... If not using for clothing, for making fabric flowers!!! :-) Also, you'll find clothing pieces that I mean to alter, regular clothes I meant to turn into maternity. Or like a short skirt that I want to add fabric to the bottom of, to make a new skirt. Such were the skirts and fabric I found on Sunday night...   Skirts I found...  or pieces of skirts I found...  This had been a skirt of mine, and I'd cut off the bottom. It had some rather interesting/strange pleats in the skirt, but they had never laid right, and they had begun to come un-stitched! ...

When my Sisters and I were little, my Papa, (my Mom's Dad) gave my Mom some vintage Strawberry Shortcake fabric that he'd gotten at auction. Mom, knowing that we were moving to a new home, started planning the girl's room in Strawberry Shortcake. She put a wanted ad in the paper for vintage strawberry shortcake things, and used the fabric to make our blankets, valences, wall hangings, pillow cases, etc... The woman's ability to plan and craft things is amazing!!! When my Sisters and I outgrew the Strawberry Shortcake, it was all put in boxes to be kept for when one of us girls would have girls of our own. And since I loved it most, it was kind of understood that I would keep it. As it were, my first two babies were girls, and now their room is decked out in Strawberry Shortcake :-)  Over the years, before I was even married, I collected more Strawberry Shortcake things and fabrics. I am not going to use all of the fabrics and will de-stash some, but I was really happy t...