November Crafts

With a week off school, I actually had leisure time at night and the time to make some stuff for myself and my family.  I had pinned this turkey shirt last year and finally made it for Sara last week.

Once I'd made one for her, I realized I could do one for David too, and since I don't do much sewing for him, I was excited to have an easy project to complete.  Took about 2 nights for each shirt, one to put the fusing on the fabric and cut out feathers, the other to iron down and then sew around.

For David's I hot glued some googly eyes on along with a beak and waddle, these did not last too long in the wash and/or through rough-and-tumble boy play, will sew on the fabric, not sure how to more permanently attach the eyes.

for Thanksgiving dinner they both wore khakis with their new shirts, here are my goofy kids.

When I found the fabric for Sara's (of course I bought new fabric instead of using scraps like it suggested! Did use scraps for David's) it was in the quilting section, just some cute 5X5 squares, and there were coordinating fat quarters.  Clearly this necessitated buying both and making a fat quarter skirt.  Picture of the skirt and outfit on my bed because I could not get my model to pose  :(

And after that push was done, I decided to open up a "Class in a Box" Jill had gotten me last christmas and play around with making jewelry.  It's somewhat frustrating - nothing like tiny beads to make your usually facile fingers feel clumsy.  Learned how many times you have to knot stretchy cord to get it to stay put, and restrug a necklace 4 times before I closed it off correctly.  I'd like to make some more for some Christmas presents this year, but we'll see how it goes once I am back to grading papers and planning lessons during my evenings (next year will be easier, right?)

Year End Crafting List

Hmm, haven't posted much this year, have I?  Definitely busy with a new school (which could fill another post), and not using my evening time as wisely as I could be.  BUT, halfway through Thanksgiving break (which is wonderful, as usual), here's a list of what I would like to get done before Christmas, in priority order (the first 2 being by tomorrow night!)

• Turkey shirt for David.  Made one for Sara earlier in the week, and this is something easy I could do for him, and I never really get to sew stuff for him.
• Matching skirt for Sara - I have coordinating fabric for a skirt to match Sara's turkey shirt, but a fairly complicated pattern, am looking around for a simpler one now.
• t-shirt quilt for David - hoping to get done for Christmas, purchased supplies yesterday.
• red dress for Sara - pattern was cut last year, I hope it will still fit if I make it in time for this Christmas!
• Dresses or diapers for the baby dolls at the church nursery - tired of seeing naked babies!
• Jewelry - just opened the "Class in a Box" Jill got me for Christmas last year!  Would love to make some handmade presents this year.
• Fleece blankets?  Need to figure out what to do with all that fleece I apparently bought 2 years ago (thought it was just last year!)

And honestly, that's enough for the rest of the year.  Let me not overwhelm myself.