I found this nice cotton top in a free pile at a yard sale. The print reminded me of 1930′s or 40′s fabric so I decided to turn it into a cleaning apron. Before(sorry for the rotten lighting):
And after chopping out the back and turn that piece into 3 pockets:
Here’s the back with a velcro closure at the neck:
I still have tons of t-shirts to use up so I decided to start a new diaper stash by making some triple layer, newborn, 12X15 inch diapers. I used some other nice scraps to make 8X8 inch wipes. There are several online patterns to make these: http://www.fernandfaerie.com/sewing_prefolds.html and http://www.synodresourcecenter.org/ywm (it’s under ‘service projects’).
I made a batch of 8 cotton pillowcases in fun fabrics and borders for a charity called ConKerr Cancer. I’ll be dropping them off when we go through Pennsylvania in October. http://www.conkerrcancer.org
A couple of years ago I made a quick baby quilt for my newborn niece. I had a 3 year old and a 1 year old at the time so I made it a simple square of vintage fabric bordered in black striped fabric. My kids loved looking at black and white patterns when they were little so I thought it would be a nice tummy time quilt. I machine quilted it in concentric squares. Well my niece loved it so much that she wore huge holes in it. So when she and her family came visiting in August and I saw the condition of her lovey I decided to whip up a replacement. This was incredibly quick to make, less than 2 hours.
Well I think it’s obvious that I’ve been seriously neglecting my blog however I haven’t been neglecting my sewing. Among things that I forgot to or chose not to photograph were replacing a bill on a vintage baseball cap, a dozen kitchen towels made from cotton t-shirts, more napkins from t-shirts, more sock cleaning cloths and several simple mending tasks. All my projects with photos will get separate entries. Thanks for visiting my blog!
