made to order

A few weeks back Jessie contacted me through this little blog of mine and asked if I would help her put together a little birthday gift for her daughter.  I admired her wanting to give something handmade to her daughter, but at the same time I asked myself, "She wants me to help her?"  I feel like such a novice at this whole sewing thing and the thought of making something "for hire" was a tad intimidating.

Well here is what I came up with.  I thought it would be fun for Jessie's daughter to be in on the creation of her little gift so I only finished it half-way.  I made her a smock apron.

 

I also made some pockets that she can sew on herself wherever she pleases (she will be 8 years old).

To aid in the hand sewing I also put together a little sewing kit for her stocked with fun trims and buttons to further decorate her apron.  This little egg crate idea came from a back issue of Country Living magazine. 

  

A needle book and small scissors are tucked in the lid, and down below I included some fun pins pushed into a strawberry pincushion, thread, a measuring tape, and some other buttons and trims (some are not pictured).  Isn't that a cute way to put it all together?  Can you tell what the recipiants favorite colors are?

I also crocheted up some veggies and a market bag.  Pretend food is so much fun to play with (real food is too for that matter).

   

I purchased the patterns here some time ago.

So, off they shipped yesterday.  As much as I enjoyed creating all of it...I still felt a bit nervous as I shipped it out yesterday.  Hope she likes it!

Sunday, June 1, 2008 at 11:10 PM

What an absolutely wonderful weekend.  I hope that you enjoyed yours as much.  On Saturday I took a 2 hour nap! An amazing feat because the rest of my family was awake.  I went to my bedroom to read and before I knew it...I was asleep and NO ONE came in to wake me up.  It was fabulous. Most of the day Sunday I was downstairs doing laundry.  I didn't really mind it...I watched this 4 hour part one of Jane Eyre.  Embarassing enough, I wasn't familar with the story.  I really do need to upgrade my Netflix membership so that I can get 2 movies at once.  Waiting a few days for the second half of that show is going to be excrutiating! (remember I said that I was going to cancel my membership...so much for that!)

We have finally arrived at the last week of school.  I am so glad.  Three days to go.  Three busy days.  I sewed up a few gardening aprons for the girl's teachers.  We (the parents) are putting together little gardening baskets for them complete with seeds, shovels, gloves, hand lotion, and these aprons.

I didn't have a pattern, but a just a general idea of how I wanted them to look.  How hard can sewing a rectangle be?  I made a sample apron just to make sure that I worked out all the kinks first.  Sewing for other people is always fussy like that.  Then, I cranked out the others assembly line style.  Cut them all out, and made all the little bias trims, then put them each together.  They are made from canvas and cotton prints.  I lined the pockets with muslin just so they would be a similar thickness as the canvas.

I have more sewing to show for...come back tomorrow! I give up on the spacing issue #$%@&**!!

Oh Snap!

The pool is ready and sometime over the long winter I forgot to get skinny!  UGGGHH!

At least someone around here looks cute in their bathing suit.  (she played with the hose and her watering can for almost an hour last night- just filling and dumping.)

We've been enjoying some much needed time outside, and thus the lack of posts.  I have been busy sewing and doing some redecorating as well.  Hope to be back soon to show off the finished products!

PS. I HATE THE NEW TYPEPAD...THE SPACING IS ALL SCREWED UP!!