Love that Disney Machine!

My new favorite blouse! Just such fun to sport Winnie the Pooh and all his friends.

And the back

The back yoke sports Winnie! This shirt was done on the Brother 180D using the Winnie the Pooh card.

Shadow Floral Vest Front

A workshop with Bonnie Lynn McCaffery, based on her book Fantasy Floral Quilts, was the basis for creating this vest. The book leads you through creating a wall hanging but I decided to turn it into a vest instead. The technique is layering silk flowers between a layer of fabric and a layer of tulle and then embellishing the centers of the flowers with buttons and beads.

Shadow Floral Vest Back

This is the back of the vest. Note that it looks white but the actual color is yellow. Not sure if that's the lighting or if it picked up the color of the tulle. You cannot see the layer of tulle when you look at the vest.

Shadow Floral Vest Closeup

Here's a closeup of the larger panel on the right front.

Heirloom Blouse Front

This was made by machine embroidering flower designs on squares of fabric, joining them together with heirloom ribbon, adding fabric to make panels, and then cutting pattern pieces out. The pattern was a Sew and Stretch blouse pattern but any oversize blouse pattern will work.

Heirloom Blouse Back

The blouse was sewn together following, step by step, Margaret Islander's wonderful Shirts video. Almost all the lovely flower designs are from Zundt Designs.

Grandmother's Shirt

This is a real favorite. The children's faces going down the side of the shirt are from Debsembroiderydesigns.

Sweatshirt into Cardigan

It's quite easy to take a sweatshirt and turn it into a comfortable and good looking cardigan.

Another Sweatshirt into Cardigan

Once you get started, it's hard to stop! You always see wonderful pieces of fabric that would make perfect banding on these cardigans.

New Dad's Apron

A wonderful gift for a new dad and perfect for a baby shower. The denim pockets are embroidered to say powder, soap, shampoo, lotion, baby's bottle, dad's bottle (small bottle of liquor), baby's toy, and wet and dry for diapers.

Saf-T-Pockets Jacket

A great jacket for traveling and wonderful to wear around every day.

Inside the Saf-T-Pockets Jacket

Many pockets inside, including a hidden one, provide room for all your items. The jacket is navy corduroy with a plaid cotton lining.

Slash Jacket

These take a great deal of time but are wonderful to wear. I've made four but this is my favorite.

Closeup of Slash Jacket Technique

The fabric for a slash jacket is made by sewing layers of fabric with rows of stitching and then cutting all but the bottom layer in between the stitching. This is a closeup showing the jacket after it's been sewn, slashed, sewn together, washed, and dried.

Quilted Jacket

A pattern from The Quilted Closet and a lot of work turned fabric into a great jacket.

Back of the Quilted Jacket

The back of the jacket is as attractive as the front.

Quilted Table Runner

This first attempt at quilting was the perfect size. Easy to maneuver for machine quilting.

Sewing Vest

This is from a pattern that I got at the Branson Quilt Shop. It's a The Thread Lady pattern. Great with pockets on the inside and outside and makes it easy to reach tools while working.

pink sewing vest

Here's a second vest made from the same pattern. Gave this away as a gift.

Tissue Holders

These are quick and easy and look very professional when completed.

REALLY EASY TISSUE HOLDERS

Cut two pieces of fabric:

Main piece: 6 inches x 6-1/2 inches

Piping piece: 6 inches x 7-1/2 inches

Serge or sew 6 inch sides, right sides together, on both 6 inch edges. The piping side will be bigger.

Turn right side out and press flat, so that piping side will overlap slightly on both sides.

Press in half and, using press mark as a guide, fold both pipings to press mark with piping on inside. Press flat.

Serge or sew across raw edges. Turn to right side and press.

Faux Mink Jacket

Working with faux fur is not as difficult as I thought it would be. A workshop at American Sewing in Novi, MI was a wonderful source of the techniques.