Pink Saturday in the Sewing Room

I just realized the title of my post almost sounds like I am playing the game "Clue". I think it was Miss Pink Saturday in the sewing room with the needle. Too bad the Clue game didn't have a sewing room as part of the board design. I loved that game when I was younger. Actually I still enjoy playing that when there are enough other people around to make it fun. But that is not what you came here for....


On to Pink In the Sewing Room...

Again I am using the back side of that pink satin as a backdrop for my pictures. This time I pulled together all the pink thread I have. That stack of four on the right side are all the SAME shade. Why I have four of the same I don't know. Probably because I get thread each time I get fabric just in case I don't have the right color at home. My little black sewing box is not pink but I put it in there to add contrast to all that pink. Same reason why I have the blue thingie in there too. Plus it adds height to the composition of the photo. The crocheted doilies I believe were made by my mother-in-law. They were in her stuff that I got from her. So that is all I have for you today. Lots of PINK thread. For my next pink sewing project I will try not to buy pink thread until I have checked what I have at home first. I promise!

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Happy Pink Saturday everyone!!

Another Baby!!

Today I found out about another baby on the way for another co-worker. Again! Must be something in the water. This one wants to wait until the baby is born to find out if it is a boy or a girl. I guess I will make a generic romper or something for her. Since it will be a spring/summer baby that should work. Wow! All these babies. Lots of sewing. I need to get on the ball.

I know some of you are waiting to see what I am up to with the Halloween fabric. But no I can't tell you just yet. Soon I hope. I am having fun keeping you wondering. Heehee.

Another thing I got to do today. I got to hold the precious little girl that I have already made whose outfit I did finish on time for the shower. Except for the hat, that is. Oh she is so cute. And so little. I forgot how little babies are when they are first born. Actually, this one is smaller than my babies were at birth. I did take a picture of her. But I am not going to post it since I did not ask if it was okay. I need to respect that of course. But you can believe me that she is one cutey. The hat has been frustrating for me. I accidently scorched the ribbon on that one and no luck finding replacement ribbon. Not even online unless you wanted to buy 20 yards! I am not ready to do that. So I finally got 5/8" instead and gave up on finding the right shade of the 3/8" ribbon. So that meant I needed to replace both sides instead of one. I got the scorched side replaced this morning and starting taking out and replacing the other side. I will probably finish it this evening. And when I do I will take a picture of it and post it here. You will just have to imagine it on a precious baby girl. Actually she won't be able to wear it for while yet, it is too big.

So if I am going to get any sewing done, I better hop off of this blog and get to it. Right? Right.

Uh Oh, Adding More Fabric....

Now I have done it!

Went and bought more fabric when I have a bunch of unfinished projects already. Will I ever learn?

Nope.

I can't help it when an idea hatches and I have to go and get what I need.

Right? Right!

Here is a picture of the fabric and ribbons I picked up.

But get this! I am not going to tell you what I am going to make with it.

Heehee.

Just a little fun on my part.

Now that I've said that.

Everyone is going to hold me to finishing this project.

Talk about pressure.

But seriously I want to get this one done ASAP. It shouldn't take me too long.

I hope anyway.

So keep checking back to see what I am making with this cute Halloween fabric!

Happy Sunday!

Pink Saturday!

Click here for my Pink Saturday post. It is on my home blog this time. Thanks for visiting. And sorry for the confusion. HAPPY PINK SATURDAY!!

New Picture in Header

You will see that I have added a new picture to my header. Actually a picture since there was not one there before. It is a mini quilt that I made a couple of years ago. I think I also did the tea-dye process with it too, to age it a little. I have a book called "Little Quilts All Through The House" which has the pattern I used to make this little quilt. I really like it. I need to make some more so I can also have little quilts all through the house. Today I hope get a start on my bean bag project for work. At least open the bean bags to empty the bags and then wash them. Also finish the current baby outfits I am working on currently. Plus I have an afternnon event to the women's group at church to attend. My mother and I will be talking about our trip to Salt Lake City when we attended the Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in American Trienniel in July. It was an awesome experience for us and for both of us it was our first time. We arranged pictures on poster boards to help show how great it was. So that is my day. I am so looking forward to attending the next one in Spokane, WA in 2011.

Happy Pink Saturday! Now I want to go and check out other Pink Saturday posts. You can see mine on my home blog today.

Washable Bean Bags

I have made bean bags as part of a group activity for work. We use them for various activities. They are great to have around. Problem is they are hard to wash with the beans in them. So I had been looking for something else to fill them with that would allow us to wash them easily. We need to be able to do that when there are infections or illnesses going around. I finally found this stuff called Poly-pellets. That is what is in the picture. We sent an email to the company we got it from and they said this product should work for what we want to do with it. But I am dismayed that I would probably need to order more in order to fill a bunch of bean bags. We have about 20-30 of them I think. Helps to have plenty so that more than one therapist can be doing activities with the bean bags. I ordered two 2 pound bags. But one 2 pound bag will not get very far. Nevertheless, I will start with what I have and see how far I get. I am thinking of ironing on numbers on the bean bags to help us keep track of which ones have been washed. For example make 10 with the number 1, ten with the number 2 and ten with the number 3. So we can say, okay we are washing all the bags labeled with number 1. I got the poly-pellets from www.roseannsdolls.com. That was about the only source we could find. If anyone knows of another source please let me know.

Pink Saturday in the Sewing Room

Here are some items from my sewing room. Well, the coffee cup is not, but I was using that one the day I took the picture. It has pink on it and it is a sewing theme. I think it was a gift from a Secret Pal one year. I also used the wrong side of left over pink satin type fabric for the background. It cuts down on the shine that way. I used that fabric for an Easter dress for one of my nieces this year. Then there is the pink scissors, pink ribbon, pink variegated crochet cotton, pink old timey looking sewing bin. A cute ornament with pink buttons that was given to me by a former co-worker. And in the front a crochet hook holder that I made. I still have 3 left from when I used to try to sell things I made. I don't do that now. May use them as gifts someday. Also on the left the stripped pink fabric is what I used for the first thing I made for my granddaughter. I made a cute dress and matching bloomers. The hat I am modeling in the side bar went with that outfit. Now I need to go and check out everyone else's Pink Saturday posts. Thanks for visiting!!