Totes/Bags, Kids/Mom Crafts, Sewing and All Other Tutorials!

Ok, this is the post for the Totes and Kids Craft Tutorials.

Totes/Bags-
Zest Tote by JoAnn
Lined Drawstring Bag
Denim Do-it-All Bins




Kids/Mom Crafts-
Fancy Fleece Flowers
Treat Box
Gift Box 
Colored "Glass"- a winter tutorial
Envelope Tutorials


All Other Tutorials-
Birdie Pincushion
Travel Sewing Kit
Thimble/Coin Holder
How to put in an invisiable zipper
Fabric Flower Pin


Practical Tutorials-
Single Use Antibiotic Packs

WE HAVE WINNERS!

First off I want to say thank you to everyone who entered my giveaway. The winners are as follows and will not only be receiving what was offered but I will be putting goodies in the bags too! And because my little one had so much fun pulling names and deciding who would get what we pulled 2 extra names for surprise goodies!
Ok, now to the winners:

First we have Sew Linda Ann for a fabric bundle.

She said:

SewLindaAnn said...

That's sweet that rainbow is the answer! My fave color is green in all it's lovely shades, but I also love the blue/green of the ocean. Loving the vintage!

And Terry for a fabric bundle, she said:

Terry said...

Aqua is my favorite right now. Thanks for all the chances to win.

Next we have Anna C. for the pillow case:


She said:

Anna C. said...

My favorite Colors are Aqua And red Right now I love the way they look with eack other!! Thanks for the giveaway,


Third we have A Joyful Chaos for the Sheet:

She said:

A Joyful Chaos said...

It's so hard to pick a favorite color when i love so many of them! Think if I have to choose I go with shades of blue.

For the rest of the following winners we have surprise giveaways, winners are in order:

Kylie said...

I love Red, the color just pops in anything you work it into. Thank you for a lovely giveaway!


DangAndBlast! said...

I like a very light silvery purple - when I was little, I decided that was the color of unicorns :)

lemony lucy said...

It's too bad my favorite color can't be 'vintage'. As I like that so much. I've been having a great time exploring orange lately. I didn't like it at all as a child and I figured it was time we were friends.

Sarah said.....
My favorite color is magenta and the jewel tones in general. But I also like blue and green.


Everyone has been emailed and I will give everyone a week to get me there address before pulling another name. Have a great Saturday everyone!

SMS Giveaway Day! Shipping to US & Canada

Giveaway is Closed! Thanks to all who played!


It is Giveaway Day! (or should I say week) I'm so excited! I'm the type of person that loves to give and I also love to get packages in the mail so doing giveaways is so much fun for me. My giveaway is simple, I have 4 things to give to 4 different people. The lucky winners will be chosen by my kiddo, names/numbers will be drawn out of a sand bucket. To enter just leave us a comment telling us what your favorite color is. This will be fun for the little one, my favorite color is actually two colors, I love both blue and green, my kiddo loves all colors so when asked What is your favorite color? the response is a Rainbow!

Open to US & Canada only.

Now on to the offers and pictures, I'm destashing some fabric:
First up I have 2 sets of the same fabric bundles to give away, one set will go to 2 different people-

Next up we have a vintage pillow case, with my favorite 2 colors-

Lastly we have a vintage sheet, such a beautiful pattern-

Hope you like what we have to offer. Remember to check out all the other giveaways! http://sewmamasew.com/blog2/ This giveaway is open till December 16th at midnight EST. Good luck to all.

Because this has been so much fun today visiting other peoples giveaways,  I'm going to have a surprise 5th & 6th winners!

Oh, 2 posts below is the start of a tutorial list, if you have a favorite tutorial please post a comment on there with the link to it, thanks for helping me make the list! Those who choose to help me make a great tutorial list will go in the bucket twice!

I will be participating in the give away again!

Sew Mama Sew is doing the awesome give away again. Giveaway Day will last all week, from December 12- December 16. All giveaways must close on December 16 at 5 p.m. PST, and winners should be announced by email no later than Sunday. I'm so excited to participate again. Last time it was a load of fun. Now I just have to raid my fabirc stash to see what I will be giving. Till tomorrow...... OH, and check out everyone else giveaways too!

Sewing Tutorials!

Well for all of you who sew out there this is a post for you. Like many of you I love tutorials! I like to see what others create. So along those lines I decided I would create a post linking to all of the great tutorials I have found. This will help me too not to forget where I found things when I want to find them again either. This will be an ongoing post that will be labeled under my tutorial section to the right. If anyone knows of a great tutorial, please leave a link in the comments so I can add it to the list. I will take ones for more then just sewing too! We love tutorials for kids crafts too, maybe that should be a seperate post. Hmm, ya I will post a seperate one for that later. You may notice that alot of my post are for girls, well I make mostly girl stuff until now, now there is a nephew to create for, so I welcome boy tutorials too. Here we go-

Babies-
Gotcha Bib by JoAnn
Cloth Baby Shoes
Over the Head Baby Bib
Tie Baby Big
Diaper Clutch


Girls-
Twirly T Shirt Dress  One of my favorites
 "In the Garden" Shirred Twirly Dress
Knot Dress
Twirly Skirt
Men's Dress Shirt Dress
Men's Dress Shirt Dress 2
Caplet
Child's Sleeveless
Wrap Skirt
Patchwork Circle Skirt
Tiered Skirt
Tiered Skirt 2
20 Minute Skirt
Ruffled Skirt
Ruffled Skirt 2
Lazy Days Skirt
Ruffle Sleeve Top
Skort
Ruffly Patchwork Dress
Sundress w/Shirred Back
Shirred Sunny Day Dress
Zest Dress by JoAnn
Kid's Poncho by JoAnn
A Line Skirt


Boys-
Boy's Tie from a Man's Tie




Unisex-
Sweater Mittens
Kids Lounge pants from T-Shirt

Check out this awesome giveaway

At 100BillionStars
Easy to enter and such great fabrics!

Emails are away-

I have emailed all the winners so please check your spam folders if you see your name listed below or just email me your address. Thank you again to all who stopped by.

SMS Giveaway is Closed and We Have Winners!

I want to say thank you to all who participated. This was a fun giveaway and I'm sure I will do it again. The following are the winners chosen by Random.org, sorry could not figure out how to post the widget thing with the actual chosen # showing- blog challenged (Oh and if someone would be so kind as to leave a comment on how to automatically add the #'s to the peoples comments, that would save a lot of counting down names) so here are just the winning #'s-

For the fabric-

For the butterflies, ladybugs and dragonflies on a blue background.
#3 kt said...
Love the blue butterfly fabric. Thanks for the chance to win!
ktyoung1(at)gmail(dot)com

For the daisies on navy blue with white dots, the bottom is white with navy blue dots.
#98 Lynn said...
#2 thanks!

For the print piece of fabric with pink, green and purple with flowers and paisley.
#43 Genevieve P said...
I like all of them! Thanks for the giveaway!

For the butterfly on a dark to light green back ground.
#48 Mike and Jackie said...
Thank you! I love #2 and #4
mikeandjackiew@ gmail dot com

Now for the Jewelry winners-

For the Sterling silver hooks and bead caps with Jasper, Watermellon quartz and Swarovski crystals.
#6 Lorene (just Lu) said...
They are both beautiful! Thanks for a great giveaway!
-Lorene

And for the Sterling silver hooks with black Onyx, Kynite and freshwater pearls.
#41 Jenny said...
Very nice, I'd be happy to win and wear either, thanks for the chance to win some pretty new earrings!
okiedokiemama at yahoo dot com

I will be emailing everyone shortly. Thank you again for visiting my blog, I hope you all had as much fun as I did.

Giveway issues

I know that I have had some trouble trying to post comments on some giveaways, Internet Explorer does not seem to like some of the comment sections sing in's, I was already signed into Google but it didn't seem to be working, I was able to get around it when they had the Name/Url sign in but not all of them had that either, have no fear! If you are having the same issue, switch to Firefox- Works great, no issues! Yeh!

See my Giveaways below! and happy blog hopping!

This has been so much fun!

Wow, it has been so much fun just reading your comments. Keep'em coming! Can't wait to pick the winners. Make sure you check out all the list at Sew Mama Sew and remember the giveaway closes May 25th Midnight and I will be picking winners on the 26th.

SEE BOTH GIVEAWAY'S BELOW!

Ok it's Giveaway Time!

Well this is my first giveaway and I have decided to do several giveaways, I will be giving away to 4 different people one of the pre-shirred fabrics below.

The first fabric is about 18" W x 29" L. It is very cute with butterflies, ladybugs and dragonflies on a blue background.The next fabric is just beautiful, daisies on navy blue with white dots, the bottom is white with navy blue dots. It is about 20" W x 29" L.Thirdly we have a fantastic print piece of fabric, it is about 16" W x 29" L. It has been pre-washed, I purchased it at 18" and after washing some of the shirring unravelled, lets just say I learned my lesson on pre-washing them, I did not cut the unravelled part off so it is still 18" but only 16" are good to use.

Lastly, we have a very cute butterfly shirred fabric on a dark to light green back ground. It is about 20" W x 29" L.I'm going to make entering easy, just leave a comment below with your email address and if you have a fabric choice leave that too. Giveaway closes at Midnight May 25th I will be choosing people by random selection on May 26th. Thanks for visiting.

Oh, I almost forgot, check out the post below, I'm doing a Jewelry giveaway too!

Giveaway #2!

Here is the Jewelry giveaway. Both earrings are Sterling Silver and semi precious stones. I will do this giveaway the same way, leave a comment with your email address and I will choose 2 people by random. Let me know if you have an earring preference. Giveaway closes at Midnight May 25th, I will be choosing people on May 26th. Have fun!
Sterling silver hooks and bead caps with Jasper, Watermellon quartz and Swarovski crystals.

Sterling silver hooks with black Onyx, Kynite and freshwater pearls.

One more time

Reminding one more time about tomorrows giveaway, still haven't decided what to give, might do 2 things. Check it out at http://sewmamasew.com/blog2/?p=17334.

Monday is coming quickly

Check out this giveaway http://sewmamasew.com/blog2/?p=17334 and have a fun filled Monday. Enjoy your weekend.

Just A Reminder

About the wonderful giveaway Sew Mama Sew is hosting http://sewmamasew.com/blog2/2011/05/may-giveaway-day-3/
I'm thinking about being in the give away, just can't decide what to offer, handmade jewelry or a handmade craft item or a handmade clothing item. Good thing I have till Friday to decide! Leave a comment on what you think.

It has been a while and a tutorial!

Well it has been a while since I have posted anything, I'm always way to busy and when I have free time I like to read other people's blogs, some of my favs are Ucreate, The Sewing Dork, and The Long Thread. They all have some really great tutorials!

Check out the May 23rd giveaway that Sew, Mama, Sew is hosting http://sewmamasew.com/blog2/2011/05/may-giveaway-day-3/

Speaking of tutorials, I was a nut and decided that my kiddo needed to give every little kid in the Kindergarten class a going away present for the summer. There are 16 kiddos in the class. We tried to keep to a summer theme, you know, little buckets with shovels, bubbles, sidewalk chalk, etc, but we also decided that it would be fun to make something personal for each kid, pencil toppers! What was I thinking? pencil toppers? Well it started out as just one pencil with topper for each kid and then it became 2 pencils with toppers for each kid, my kiddo would have loved to do 20 for each kid, but we agreed 2 would be enough. So here it goes the tutorial, let me know if you need more directions, not sure if I took enough pics or not, my little one wanted more and more pics, such a camera ham I have, oh and the little fingers, are my little helper-


Pencil Toppers 1 by 1 ;)

What you will needed:

1 Little Helper
Felt in various colors (Got mine at JoAnn's)
Pkg of Heat n Bond ultra bond no sew adhesive
Freezer paper
Fabric Glue (I used Liquid Fusion)
Decorations (Glitter, buttons, etc)
Pieces of paper 1/2" strips about 2 to 3" long
Scissors with a sharp point
Pencils
Iron and board

NOTE OF CAUTION: When you iron, the paper and the felt get hot fast, make sure to let cool completely before you or the little one touch, we don't want anyone getting burned.

First I searched the web for some clip art designs, or pictures I could use to create my designs (I can not draw to save my life so this seemed like the best way). We decided on some of the basics, hearts, starts, trains, footballs etc. then I copied them to a word doc and adjusted the size to what I thought would be good for a pencil topper and printed them out. Next I used a black sharpie and just went around the edges of the designs so that I would be able to see them better through the freezer paper and heat-n-bond paper. Then I traced with a pencil the designs onto both the freezer paper and the heat n bond paper.


Some of my designs had inside designs as well, like the football had the white strips and the black lacing strip (Oh, didn't realize till after that the lacing is actually white on a football, oops!), I copied them onto just the heat n bond paper. The purpose of the freezer paper is just to cut out a backing for the topper, so everything else is traced onto the heat n bond paper. Now cut out your designs, I left a little gap around the pencil marks as a buffer for cutting. Choose your felt color and iron both the freezer paper and the heat n bond on, I found that it was a good idea to iron a piece of freezer paper over my ironing board first, helps prevent accidently ironing the heat n bond to your board, voice of experience here, I will have to sew me a new board cover. WAIT- One VERY, VERY important step, make sure that when you are placing the heat n bond down that you decide where you want your pencil to stick in and slip that little piece of 1/2" paper under the heat n bond about 2/3rds of the way in, in other words between the heat n bond and the flet, this creates your pocket for the pencil. I found that it was better to make pockets on the sides of some of my designs instead of at the bottom where there might be a point or it would just be difficult to get the pencil in. My iron was set to wool and it only takes about 2-3 seconds of holding it down firm, I did have some issues with the felt staying on the iron when I picked it up, just used the point of my scissors to knock it off. (I did not have any issues with the felt melting, but you might want to test it first since I know not all felt is the same, mine was EcoFi).

Notice you can see the little piece of paper sticking out for the pencil pocket.

After ironing them all on, I began cutting them out. Because I did so many at a time I noticed that the freezer paper started peeling on some of them, just had to reheat them and they were fine.

Now cut out the heat n bond ones, no need to be careful on the paper tab that is sticking out, just cut right over it.
Peel the paper off and you will have just the glue and the paper strip left, next carefully peel the little piece of paper off, it worked best when we started at the edge and gently lifted and peeled back and then just peeled sidewise at the end.

Not sure if you can see it our not but my little helper is showing you that you will be left with a bare spot on the felt that does not have glue. Now lay one glue covered felt over one none glue felt, line up good and iron again.
Let cool and you are ready to decorate! We did glitter on this butterfly. Oh, one good thing with the felt, it was easy to use the glue and make designs and then pour liberal amounts of glitter over it and guess what, you got it! the glitter just fell right off, only stuck to the glue which is what we wanted.

Time to put on the pencil to dry and you are done! One down 31 more to go!

And belive it or not they are all done!

Hope you enjoyed this tute, sorry if it was long, it was my first! Now go find a little helper and make your own pencil toppers!