From my studio last week: February 7, 2011

I’m all the time posting links out to tutorials and other people’s projects, but I rarely show a peak at the things that I create.  So here’s my experiment with a new feature: a weekly recap of some of the projects and goings-on in my own studio.

Some will be my own ideas (usually made up as I go, cause that’s how I roll) and sometimes you’ll see projects made with tutorials I’ve linked to in the past.

If you love to sew, you know that it’s not Valentine’s Day without a cute Valentine’s shirt.  This is my version, made for my daughter.  I wanted it to be something she could wear year-round so I went with a sprinkling of appliqued scrap hearts in  a palette of reds and browns.  Free motion stitching on gold lame = no fun.  But otherwise I’m pleased with how it turned out.

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I also finally made good on my Christmas present I.O.U. for my mother-in-law.  From Christmas 2009, folks.  Yes, I’m THAT bad.  Anyway, she wanted a organizer for her purse to keep up with all of the loyalty cards, business cards, and appointment cards that were filling up her wallet.  And so the Card Condo was born.  It’s like a fabric book with tons of credit card sized pockets – 24 of them, in fact.  There are also two larger pockets for receipts and such.

And this little birdie was made by my 7-year-old daughter.  We used the bullfinch scrap fabric ornament tutorial that I linked to last week.   Little girl is still learning to control the sewing machine so I simplified it to use felt for the body and beak.  She’s so proud of her little yellow birdie!!

And what’s this?  It’s a Janome Memory Craft 6300p, on loan to me for the next few months.  If you can believe it, I’ve never used an electronic sewing machine before (I’ve always used a mechanical), so I’m having fun trying out all its whizz-bang features.  I’ll be writing up a review in the coming weeks.

So that’s my sewing recap from last week.  In the coming week, my plans are to create another version of the Card Condo and write up a tutorial.  And I’ll be using my new fancy schmancy Janome MC 6300P, continuing to try out its features and taking notes as I go.  I’m also writing up a review of Fiona Bell’s Sewn with Love.  Look for that in the next day or so.

What are you going to be working on this week?