Hairbows R US

Every now and again when I come down with Crafting ADD, (it's a real disease, I'm sure of it) I like to spend some time doing different crafts.  This week I was at home for 2 days with a sickie who slept quite a bit so I brought my ribbon upstairs and set to work making some hairbows. 

I had stitched up quite a few hair stitchies on my embroidery machine so I wanted to make some bows to match.  Because that's what I do when I am bored.  I make random hair stitichies when I have a few extra minutes and then when I want to make hairbows, I have a large stash to choose from!  I know, I know, I lead a fascinating life don't I! 

Orange

Lemon squeezy

Owls

Apple

Cowgirl

Princess

St. Patty's Day

Whats that? A sewing related post...

I have been sewing, I promise.  Just not a lot.  Here are some recent items.

Hairbows.  Lots and lots of hairbows.  I made a bunch, the girls made a bunch and then we invited Trisha over and she started a bunch and then made me finish them!









4th of July



These are some of KK's









A tunic for Nin.

Ottobre 04/2011 #28



I also made 5 matching July 4th outfits, appliqued with their initials.

Girls are in Farbenmix Roxy's and the boys are in an Ottobre shirt from 03/2006. All appliques are from Planet Applique. These are the best pictures I was able to get!!







Finally, a set of 4 burp cloths for a custom order.

Hair pretties and undies. Oh my!

Since my girls love hair pretties I have been making lots of them in summer designs.  Forget sewing, welcome to my hairbow making factory! 





For 4th of July. Still need one more at a minimum. 3 more at a maximum! The girls like to wear 2 each, but I may not have enough time to make 3 more.



Bows with Hair stitchies in the center from GG Embroidery designs







Oops, got one of the ice cream cones glued on wrong side up!





Nin needed some new undies, so I made 8 pairs. All out of scraps!  I experimented with the leg openings and waist band and in the end she prefers the legs and waist bound in cotton/lycra rather than the elastic. So next time, I will skip the cool elastic and stick with the cotton/lycra. 

Ottobre Design 6/2010



Ottobre Design 04/04

Robots and hair pretties

Those are two things I would have never thought I would say in the same sentence. 

Remember the Ahoy shorts I made for TheoLeo in the robot print?



I made him a matching shirt. The front has an embroidery of a robot and the back has the word robot with the second "o" being a robot. The back design is the biggest embroidery I have done so far. My machine does 650 stitches per minute and this sucker had a stitching time of 49 minutes. Quick, someone do the math and figure out the number of stitches.  Since I am not fast at changing colors and get distracted easily, I bet this thing took about 1 1/2 hours to complete! Then I still had to sew the shirt together! It's super cute though and I am glad I made it for him.

Pattern: Ottobre Design 4/2004, same shirt as the upcycled ones last week.
Embroidery- Stickbaer

Look, you can still see the impression left by my hoop! It will come out in the wash.



Back





On a somewhat related subject, I mailed this package out to him on Friday and he got it on Monday.  The impressive part is that he lives 1800 miles away near the coast.  I am in land locked Kansas!  Kudos to the Post office.  Now, I have a long standing feud with the Post office (which is a story for another day), so when I say kudos, you know I mean it.  :)


While the embroidery machine was up and running, I made a bunch of hair pretties for the girls. My girlies are in love!

Embroidery- GG Embroidery Designs
Hair stitchies- they are basically embroidered felt sandwiches. A clip gets sandwiched in between. I didn't buy the clip covers designs, and I didn't have enough small clips so some of them are a little long.



the back. The watermelon has the clip properly inserted into the felt sandwich because it fit. The peace sign heart is not sandwiched, but hot glued since I didn't have smaller clips.



I will be buying more of these since my girlies love them so much! I actually had to break up fights over who got what. Then I had to promise to make more....