Valentine Door Surprise

I came home from  work to find these lovely valentines on our front door.  Our cute neighbors next door did this while I was gone.   They are the cutest family...two boys 5 and 3 and  a little girl almost 1.   

I have been doing some sewing but I had two waders in a row...which is very discouraging  to say the least.

I have a great vest  which turned out great though.... but I am to lazy to post a pic right now  I promise tomorrow I will show some pictures.  Right now I am working on our taxes...I thought I would take a break and do some blogging....actually I am procrastinating thinking my husband will finish it when he gets home..

I have lost 7.2 pounds the last three weeks   yea!!!!!!!!!!!!   I weigh in  again on Friday.  I am hoping for at least one more pound.  

okay  I guess I will go back to the taxes...Oh wait I think I hear the garage door  opening!  must be my husband...I think I'll let him finish.   Happy sewing all....Kathy

simplicity 3673 jumper

sorry about the lighting.  This is a jumper I made a year ago, but I'm just now getting it posted. A complete description is at the end .

belt from a pair of old pants

a view of the back...as you can see on the right my sewing room is a mess.  I can never keep the floor clean.

I made this jumper last year so I am very late  posting it on my blog.... The pictures  aren't very good . I have very bad lighting in the hallway, and my sewing room is well....a mess...that is one job on my list today to clean it during the super bowl.   I made this jumper out of a plaid polyester.   It matches a jacket I bought on sale perfectly.   Although I have never worn it with the jacket.  The neck has a little gaposis.  So if I were to make it again I would fix that.  Other than that I made it just like the pattern {with one inch added to the waist length}.  I had a skinny belt from a pair of pants I bought a long time ago,  and it fits perfectly.   All in all I loved this pattern and can't wait to get back into it.   Oh and I have lost a total of 6.2 pounds in the last two weeks..I have a way to go but it's a good start!   Have fun watching the super bowl...or sewing ...or whatever you are doing!!!

vogue Jacket 8714

It is raining like crazy outside, which is odd for us... I live in Utah and we usually have two or three  feet of snow this time of year..and below zero temps..but this year we have no snow and it is in the mid 4o's and raining...go figure... Well I thought since I can't run outside today,  I would take a few minutes to post this jacket I  made a while ago.   I love linen !  I bought this fabric  last year at Jos and when I found this pattern I fell in love with it... I thought the two would go great together.  It is Vogue 8714.   It was very easy to make and has a vest I thought would be fun to try... I thought this would be cute with jeans{ when I can get them back on}   Or a jeans skirt.   I'm working on a BWOF  dress right now and I am super excited about it.  Hopefully i can post it in a few days...   

another view   I topstiched the entire jacket

this is the back peplum which I topstiched.   love topstiching!

close up of the button I used from my stash.....Happy sewing everyone and thanks  for the kind works of encouragment...

long time no post.............

wow... I just noticed that my last post was on the 12th of Nov.   [my birthday].... I can't believe its been that long.   One reason why I haven't posted much is because I have gained back all the weight I lost, and well it just isn't that fun for me to take a picture of myself when I feel so yuckey.   So I went back to weight watchers to day and i thought that if I posted  each week my weight loss[ hopefully]  I would stay on track.   That being said I am only going to post pictures of  finished projects on the dress form... maybe if I have a good day i will take my picture in them but for  now  just the dress form... I have been doing a lot of sewing and will post somethings tomorrow,,  I hope everyone had a great Christmas holiday...

burda 7401

Here is Burda 7401.  I  made this a while ago  but I have been wearing it  a lot lately.  I used some 100% linen I bought from Fashion Fabric.com  a long time ago.  I bought it because the color was what i was looking for and it was only $3.95 a yard.  It was not very good quality>  I should have known that for that price it would be mediocre.   I love to wear this color with jeans so I thought it turned out okay.  The coat you can see hanging  on the right of this picture  is a vintage coat I found on e-bay for $7.00  Love it  ... i will leave that to another post....

This pattern was a lot like the vest I posted a while ago.  It has pockets on the sides which I sewed shut because they were really droopy...the fabrics fault.  The sleeves are just rolled up to make it really casual. 

Here you can see the back peplum.  It is cut on the bias which makes it hang  great.  All in all it was pretty easy to make .

Go Stansbury!!!

This is my beautiful daughter and my grandson who just won their football game against their rival.  Aren't they cute?   He is such a great kid. And my daughter is the best daughter in the world....love them both!!  Just  thought I would post their picture. High School football is so fun.

 

 

 

 

before and after chair

The chair in a minute but first this is the picture of the sound board I covered and put some of my race numbers on.  I have kept most of them.  I saw a picture in a magazine once of a Doctor's office that had an entire wall covered with race numbers ....I will never have that many but I thought it was a great idea.  I even have my ribbons hanging there. 

These are some pictures my mother had of my sister and I.   these frames  were originally painted gold.   I  got out my trusty can of white spray paint and  repainted them.  I have them on a wall in my new swing room.   Can you guess which one I am?

remember this old chair?   They had it at work..... oh for about 50 years.  It was very dirty and broken.  My boss said I could have it   so it was free.   Don't you  love free?     I removed the arms and recovered it in a black and white damask that I found at Joann's for 50% off.  I also had a coupon for 10% off your total purchase ....wooohoo  Total cost $15.

I had a little fabric left over from my pressing table . so  I made a little pillow .

Love this fabric!!!!

Closer look at the pillow before I put the button on it.  I put some black rick-rack around it , but I wish now I would have used ball-fringe.

I have been doing some sewing but not as much as I would like.  I have had this decorating bug lately.  You know how you do one room and then then you just want to keep going?  That is how I have been feeling.   I had planned to run the Top of Utah Marathon on the 17th,  but I have injured my piriformis muscle.  What is that  you say ?  lets just say it is a pain in the but...literally.  I am not giving up though,   I am going to take it easy for a while and then start training for the Ogden Utah marathon in May.   Until then I have a lot of sewing to do. 

Lets try again!

For some reason my last post did not show up.. I'm sure it was not me..ha..ha.. so I'm just going to do it again.  This is Burda 7399. I made it from a wool rayon blend that I bought three or four years ago from Fashion Fabrics.com. 

Here is the view of the back .  The back peplum is cut on the bias..which I love.. it makes it hang well.

Side picture

the pattern had you use 1/4 inch ribbon for the ties.  I didn't like that idea, so I just made ties out of bias strips of the fabric.

The pattern called for pockets which I also love but not in this vest with this fabric.  I thought it might droop to much.  I kept the stitching at the bottom which makes the bottom of the pocket.

I also bound all the seams inside with bias strips of lining.

Another front view.  Okay I'm not liking this size font.  I don't think I'll be using it again, but I'm not about to redo this post for the third time.   Thanks for visiting!