Sewing 101

My apologies, dear readers, almost 2 months have passed since my last entry. It has been one hell of a 2008, not much time for writing.

But I have much to show for it – er, at least for the last week. Behold, my first sewing projects!

here is my lovely lovely new sewing basket. oooh.

and here is my sewing area:

this is the 2nd project i worked on. it will be a set of bibs for two friends. here's how i am doing it, step by step, as requested by sis.

first i cut out fabric and batting. i'm making the bibs funky by using fun fabrics on each side.

then i sewed a piece of fabric to the batting and did a quilting stitch on the front.

these are some of the fabrics i'm using.

here is my first mostly-completed bib! my model beary is sporting a bib with a green tie dyish pattern on one side and a funky yellow one on the other side.

beary shows off the reverse side:

on to the first project i started, which is ongoing - i'm making cloth napkins for work to encourage staff to use less paper products.



here you see squishy bear hanging out with my napkins:

they're ready to eat!

bffs.





the cats were totally exhausted by the end of it.