And the winner is...

Margaret is the winner!

Margaret said...
I Love It!!!! And Keara would look so cute carrying it.

Plus, I have never won a blog give away so it's my turn!

So now you can say you win things:) I called Cory at the store and had him get the number for me on random.org . I just couldn't do it myself for some reason..

It'll be in the mail next week, I hope you like it.

Thanks to everyone for entering. I was scared no one would leave a comment!

I'll try and have more giveaways..I promise:) In fact, I'll try and give another one of these away before Halloween.

Humpty Dumpty

That's Miss Humpty, if ya please.

I found this free tutorial on the long thread website.

Same place I got the scrappy owl treat bag from (see previous post).

I love that website.

The stripes are an Anna Griffen fabric and the head is from a really soft canvas. I interfaced both. The bottom is filled with poly-pellets and the top is filled with polyester stuffing. There are pipe cleaners in her arms and legs to make her poseable and her two halves are attached by Velcro.

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I thought the pattern was VERY easy and there wasn't one part of the tutorial I didn't understand.

After Miss Humpty's great fall. I can't embroider very well if there is nothing for me to embroider over (I need something to copy!) so instead of open eyes I made them demurely closed eyes.

Another day outside in this nasty heat. I wish we had a proper yard for them to play in.

I think the one of Ava looks like she took it for her my space/face book profile picture.

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And remember:

GIVEAWAY!

Read the previous post.

I will draw a name on Friday August 14Th.

Give away!

I'm giving away this Scrappy Owl Treat Bag!

All you have to do is leave a comment on this post. You have until Friday, August 14Th (I'll choose a number in the afternoon, my time). I will use that number generator thingy to pick the winner. Even if you don't have kids, you can use this to hold the candy you give out to trick-or-treaters or...

The bag is made from brown duck canvas on the outside and natural color duck canvas on the inside. It's made from this tutorial. The measurements are: including handle, 14" tall by 7.5" wide across the front and 5" deep (sides).

I'm giving it away because:

1. I've never done a giveaway

2. This was my 1st try and it's for a class I'll be teaching at the store in October.

I need to make another one and change some things. I didn't like how the bottom/sides was sewn (my corners are a mess. Most likely my fault and not the instructions) Also, I want to interface it with decor-bond. It's too floppy. The instructions call for felt but that shows wear really bad (piling).

This is the only brown ric rac we had at the store. I think the darker brown would have been better.

Don't forget: leave a comment and you could win this!

That includes my relatives and coworkers:)

*make sure you leave your name!

Gnome labels

Lunch bag (or "whatever" bag). Made from vinyl coated Japanese fabric. The pattern is..Jalie #914? I'm not sure. It's a company I had never heard of. I got it on Sewingpatterns.com(they don't have it anymore but you can see it here) .

Quilt labels. The graphics are from here. I used white kona cotton ironed to steam-a-seam then run through the printer. My old labels are tiny and on the left.

I know these look like all the other outside-bathing suit-water photos I have taken but I had to show Ava wearing Emily's Small Paul suit. It fits her very good and was only a little short in the torso on Emily. In case you don't understand, Emily is 4 and Ava is 1-1/2!!! The Small Paul suit is a 3t.

Emily called me into their room to see this. I didn't put them on the chair together.

Paper piecing

Corinnea, I'm paper piecing! All by myself:) I found a really good tutorial. It's not a triangle and a lamp with a shade. This is a Gnome and a Mushroom. Jon had no idea what it was...

**the gome and mushroom were enlarged to 200% from the original pattern.
Up close you can see that the stem wrinkled bad when I wet it trying to get the ink stains off. To get the paper off the back easy, you wet it and then pull. Well the ink ran on to the fabric...oops:)
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The fat/wide mushroom below was the 1st one I did as it's for beginner's. It was super easy so I went on to the next one (the Gnome and mushroom) and it was not so easy..at least for me. But I did it! I would not have been able to do it had I not done the fat mushroom first. I can now visualize how it's supposed to be done so if I don't understand the instructions, I can just visualize.

I made it into a mini for my mini clothes line.

It's out of the new line of fabric that I've used now a couple of times (here and here)

Yesterday I sewed at the store with Mary A. and made these 5 reusable snack bags from my own tutorial for my Girlfriend in a Coma (Jocelyn). I haven't properly posted my tutorial because I wanted to do it in pdf form but can't figure that out. Jessica gave me some ideas on how to do it but when I tried it didn't work (It's me that probably couldn't figure it out, not your instructions Jessica!). Does anyone know how to change a Word document in to a pdf?

I do have it posted over here at the work blog though if you want to try it. I think you can also use it for other things besides food. These bags are not going to keep your food fresh like a baggy so no storing food in them!