Christmas Projects...

So now that all my gifts have been given I can finally post pictures of the projects I spent much of November & December working on (at least my sewing projects, don't think I'll get the family calendar up anytime soon.)

So my first set of projects was a Mother/Daughter set of aprons for our good friends Lauren Mauery & her daughter Nicole. I was very excited when I saw this pattern at and new it would be a fun gift for our friends. So I set to work and came out with these:

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Nicole's

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Lauren's

I really enjoyed making them and learned several new things along the way, the biggest one being I really need a better sewing machine with better speed control. That tiny 1/8" hemming stitching on all the trim is hard to do when your machine seems to go snail speed and cheetah speed with no nice moderate in-between.

Since I was already in an apron making mood and wanted to make a few more of this apron I decide to make one for my mom & one for my sister Teala, (& since I found really cute material I ended up making one for myself as well.) I really enjoy this pattern as it is really simple and you just do the same steps twice (once for each side). I love the reversible apron & and have been toying with the idea of seeing if I can turn the bottom half of the apron into a skirt because I love the lines. So here it is (remember I made 3 identical ones):

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Side A

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Side B
Had so much fun. I am definitely going to have to find a way to keep sewing once the baby arrives.

Also I have had requests to see my completed projects (since that is what started the move to blogger in the first place) so here is a link to my Picasa Project album.

Projects

(Note that is has pictures of anything that I consider a bit crafty for me so it is a hodgepodge of cooking, sewing, scrapbooking, card making, etc. and I add to it periodically - although I'll tyr and post when I add to it.) Enjoy!