Tool apron - quick and inexpensive Christmas present.

Last night I whipped up a little christmas present for Kyle...a tool apron! It was really a quick and inexpensive project. I braved JoAnns on Black Friday and scored some fabric, pretty cheap. I bought a 1/4 of a yard of the pocket fabric and only a 1/3 of the orange, so it probably only cost about a $1.00 to make. Also, time wise it was great. From start to finish I would say you could make it in an hour or so. It took me quite a bit more than that because I wasn't really paying attention and sewed the pocket to the wrong spot twice. So here is the finished product.
Here is Kyra modeling it for me. Here is a fantastic tutorial for One Hip Mama, that I used for this project.

One more project!

I made a quick little skirt for Kyra, for $3! Its very similar to a "bandana skirt", except a bandana skirt is more for a 18 month old or so (since its made out of just one bandana), so I used fabric fat quarters instead, so that I could make it a little longer. Fabric fat quarters were on sale for $1 at Joanns this week. I basically got two fat quarters of the same pattern, and one for the contrasting bottom. You basically sew strips of the contrasting fabric to your skirt fabric, then sew your two skirt fabric fat quarters into a tube. Then add elastic at the top, and hem the bottom. It really only an hour or less. I also appliqued some flowers on the bottom.

I had a couple people ask how to applique (the flowers on the bottom of the skirt and also the baby onesies in the previous post). There is this magic paper that they sell at Joanns called Wonder Under or Steam to Seam II. The cool thing about this stuff is that the fusible webbing (the stuff that makes it stick) is inbetween two pieces of paper. So you start by taking the paper off one side of the fusible webbing and sticking it to you fabric, and iron over the top for about 10 seconds. Then your cut out your pattern from the fabric. At this point I just use by cricut machine, and it does all the work for me. Here is a pretty good tutorial on how to cut out your pattern without using a cricut machine. After you cut out your pattern you stick it to your onesie or skirt or whatever, and iron over the top for 10 seconds and it is there permenately! It really super easy and quick!

The sewing bug!

The crafty/sewing bug bit me!!! I think I'm over its effect for a while, but this is what came out of it! My sister just had her third baby. So I made all three of the kiddos matching shirts. Once I figured out what I was doing, they were pretty easy. I'm now addicted to this craft project! I got the original idea from here (chasingcheerios.blogspot.com). I think I might try and make Kyle and the new baby some matching train shirts.

Here is a close up of Calivn's shirt.


I also whipped up some cloth diaper burp cloths. I love these because they are really quick to personalize, and they are the most absorbant burp cloths ever.

In case you were thinking of making some, don't try to line up the fabric with the already made seams on the cloth diapers. The cloth diapers don't have straight seams!

I also made a car cozy for my nephew and for Kyle. The idea is similar to a crayon roll. Instuctions to make this, or to buy it can be found here. The kiddos can put their cars in their individual garages, and then pull them out to drive on the road. It has been a great toy for Kyle to play with on Sunday during church.

Then it wraps up into a nice little roll that fits nicely in the diaper bag.

I switched gears a little bit, because Kyra really wanted to look spooky for her preschool party...of course I didn't really start to think about it until about 8 PM the night before. We were out shopping so I grabbed some fabric at Walmart and made this little hair clips for her piggies.

Then, for the last project, I wanted to spookify her shirt. Neither walmart nor target had any cute little girl halloween shirts. So I grabbed one of the pairs of halloween socks in the $1 section at target and made them into arm warmers that she wore with her black shirt! She loved them!

Now the effects of the bug bite have subsided a little, and I can go back to panicking about getting ready for the baby!