Getting (Back) to It!

It's been forever since I posted, but I sort of took a hiatus from anything that added stress. Hopefully, I'll be better at sharing now that things have settled down.

Anyway, I wanted to share what I've been working on and why...

A few weeks ago, a friend, and one of my daughter's Girl Scout leaders, called me and asked if I'd teach her how to sew a bag for her big, honking, yoga mat (it's really big). We scheduled a time, I gave her the list of materials, she went shopping, and we got together. I didn't make the bag in advance, so we made a few mistakes, but she's happy with it. We decided that stitching together was so much fun, we wanted to do it more.

We decided on our next pattern, thanks to Pinterest, and set another date. This time, we were making Travel Trash Bags. We included her cousin, because she's a beginning sewer too, and got busy. I sent them a list of materials, then got my own fabrics out of my large stash, and I made a prototype.

We had a great time, and this time, not as many mistakes were made (my biggest one was ripping right through my button hole with the seam ripper. Our little bags came out adorably and mine is being used in my van.

You can tell I need it!
Pattern is adapted from: http://www.raegunramblings.com/2015/04/car-trash-bag-holder-tutorial.html

This week, we got together once again. I sent them the list of materials last week, and we worked on iPad pillows (another project thanks to Pinterest). We worked for 3 hours together, laughing, and getting it done. We even made some changes to the original tutorial to make it more friendly for each of our devices (I have an iPad mini, in a case, MA has a Kindle, and I'm not sure what device J uses). Shortly after we got home, instead of watching a show before Quiettime, my youngest, Z, grabbed the pillow and went up to Quiettime...I'll take that!!

Adapted from: http://mysticmandy.blogspot.com/2013/04/ipad-pillow.htmlWhich was adapted from http://www.pixelstopatchwork.com/2013/04/tablet-pillow-stand-tutorial-girl.html

I'm planning on making these for my entire family, in corresponding fabrics. I hope they like them, I know my little guy does.

Until next time, and I hope it's not too long from now, Happy Stitching!!