I will show you a couple of pictures of my sewing room and spare room messes! He is not satisfied with the floor it still has spots of glue on it. He rented a big sander from Home Depot and is bringing that home from work today. He TOLD me that there won't be any dust because the machine will catch it!! I sure hope he is right! I am cleaning downstairs and I sure hope I don't have to start over or someone just might get coal in their stocking this year!! He said he will have it down by Tuesday!! We will see!! LOL
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Thursday, November 18, 2021
SewingRoom OverHaul
Thursday, November 11, 2021
HOW TO SAVE MONEY WHEN YOU SEW!
Hi everyone, hope you are all doing well. So sorry I have not posted for a while. It has been a bad summer for me. My mother passed away in April and it was a hard time, plus we had so much to get rid of and try to sell and clean up. We are finally past that but now my dining room looks like a cyclone went through it. I have all the things that I wanted to keep in there and no place to store them. My mom wore lots of jewelry, which I do not, so I have all of that and not really sure how to handle it. I also have a hugh box of pictures that I just can't bare getting rid of. If anyone has any tips on what to do with the jewelry, I would sure appreciate it!
I have two couches in my familyroom that are in desperate need of replacing. Everywhere I checked, there was a year of waiting. Oh my oh my!! I did finally find a set that I liked at Furniture Row and purchased those. My husband tore my old couches apart for me, because you just would not believe what you might find in a couch that you would want to save. I made a video, so if you would like to watch it, I attached the link for you.
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
BAILEY ISLAND HOBO BAG - PART 6
You take two lengths of batting for a heavier handle and two lengths of the material and stack the two materials facing each other on top of the batting. Sew around the edges leaving an opening and then turn right side out.
You then top stitch around the handle a couple of times and it is finished. You feed it through the opening you made at the top of the bag and then gather up the handle as far as you want it to be gathered and tie the two ends together. Then sew down the opening where you fed in the handle to hold the gathers in place and the bag is finished!
Sunday, April 4, 2021
BAILEY ISLAND HOBO BAG - PART 5
A few more steps on the bag. After you gather the edges of the bag, you need to sew across the edges to hold the gathers in this position. The batting that I used was the Warm & Natural Needled Cotton Batting which is one of my favorites. I was able to sew across all of the gathers, but it is getting harder now because this causes a lot of thickness. I did draw a line across the top so I would sew straight. I just used a magic marker because I needed something to see well and I knew this was not going to show.
I gave these a good steam pressing, which doesn't show here because I took the picture first and they turned out very nice. Now you sew up the sides of the bag and make box corners. Usually when you make a box corner there is a seam at the bottom of your bag to tell if you have things straight. This bag just folds in half so I folded the bag in half and then took the edge of a sliver of soap and drew a line to show the center of the bottom of the bag. Then on the front of the bag I stuck a pin in on the seam to line up the back and front together so I new everything was even.
Sunday, March 28, 2021
BAILEY ISLAND HOBO BAG - PART 4
I did get all of my strips sewn together. It wasn't hard, just my eyes would cross while watching to make sure I was catching both sides with the zigzag stitch but it turned out nice and I love the colors!
Sunday, March 21, 2021
BAILEY ISLAND HOBO BAG - PART 3
I now have all of the tubes finished and I am trying to figure out how I want them arranged. This was harder than I expected. Now on the pictures, the first one is layed out really nice, but that was a pain. the next ones are not as neat but you will get the idea. I will show you the different arrangments and then the last will be what I chose.
Here is the winner next! I think it looks the best.Now I have to zig zag the tubes together. I start by sewing the tubes into rows of two. Then join the sets of two together to get four and etc. until they are all joined together. I hope I made the right choice, but if not, you know me, I will just get out my seam ripper! I am not sure what color of thread to use. When I sewed the tubes, I matched the thread to the material in the top and bobbin area of the sewing machine since it will show on both sides of the bag. That will work in some seams but not all. I don't think I want to try nylon clear thread since I am sewing through so many layers. Nylon thread is hard enough to work with without adding another head ache. I guess I will have to wait and see what I am sewing together and use my best judgement. Then see how much the thread actually shows after sewing. I might be able to get some varigated thread if necessary. Maybe I will try the nylon thread and just see if it would work. Hmmmm! Will let you know!
Thursday, March 18, 2021
BAILEY ISLAND HOBO BAG - PART 2
I have been doing a little sewing and here is a picture of the material that I picked out for my bag.
. This is a close up of what the finished tubes look like.
Monday, March 15, 2021
BAILEY ISLAND HOBO BAG PART 1
I started on my bag, I washed all of my material and left it line dry and then pressed each of them. I then cut out my strips and I am using six different colors. Now the directions said to cut everything out that was needed to make the bag but until I make the body of the bag, I am not sure what color I will want for my trim and for the handles, etc. So I did not do that step. I can finish that later.
Next, I had to cut out strips of batting. Now the batting said it wasn't neccesary to wash and dry the batting and they did not recommend it. I read on and it said there would be a 3% shrinkage on the batting. I wasn't real sure if I wanted to just worry about a 3% shortage but I know this bag will be by the pool and it is going to be getting wet. I decided to go ahead and cut out my strips of batting and I added 1/8 inch to the width for a tiny bit of shrinkage. After I had them all cut out, I filled up my washer with water and I dunked them into the water carefully and then pulled them out and hung them across the clothes line in my basement again very carefully so I did not stretch them out of shape. I am hoping that they will shrink to the correct size that I need as they dry. My thinking is to never take any short cuts as you sew. This gives you a much better product when finished and for what it costs and the time it takes to make it, I will most likely always take the extra necessary steps to have my items looking the best that I can.
Hopefully, I can get a little sewing started tomorrow!
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
NEW PROJECT - BAILEY ISLAND HOBO BAG BY AUNTIES TWO
I just finished up this morning with some new receiving blankets and heavier blankets for the baby bed to match. These will be for Ja'Kobe, my new great grandson coming in May! Can't wait!!
Friday, February 5, 2021
Stadium Seats For School
We are tired of sitting on those oh so rough bleacher seats every time we go to one of our grandchildren's sport games. I am sure you know what I mean. So we started looking around for those stadium chairs with a back in it for comfort. We found a set of chairs at Meijer's, They zipped at the top so I assumed that I could remove the cloth and embroider our name on them. I took some pictures but they have dissappeared. I think I accidentally deleted them before I downloaded them.
When I got home I unzipped the zippers but there was no way to get the material off of the frame. This must of been so they could put them together because everything is rivoted together so it can't be taken apart. I so wanted to put our names on the back of them.
I decided to digitize and embroider our names on some black felt. I then cut around the felt and made a hem around all four sides and then I hand sewed them to the back of the chairs. This was kind of hard because the chairs had to sit in my lap and I had to sew them on this way. I sewed them on a large pocket so the back with my hand sewing does not show. I am sure I looked kind of crazy, but I think they still came out cute. I do have a picture of the finished project!
I just ordered some more flannel for our new baby that will be coming in May! It's time to start getting ready! It is going to be another boy and his name will be JaCobe! I will then have a JaQuan and a JaCobe! We just helped to move them to a different apartment. They use to live on the third floor and she didn't have a washer or dryer. I think that is going to be a must with two babies! So now she is on the first floor and she is looking for a used washer and dryer. Hopefully she will have this by May!! Stay safe and stay warm!!! It is going to be around 14 below in Ohio on Monday! At least this is what I heard on the news!