A few more accomplishments

I have been saving all these up from the last month for one post, so beware!

Refashioning Old Clothes: In retrospect, I should have taken "before" pictures.

Here is Isaac with his shirt pillow. He outgrew the shirt and so I stuffed and sewed it. The other side has his nickname on it, "The Tank."

An old dress (that I was not terribly fond of, but I always liked the pattern and colors) turns into a new skirt for Genna. All I did was cut off the top of the dress, sew it to extra wide elastic. Then I sewed some of my new Belgian lace to the lining underneath. I was inspired by this.


A plain old mock turtle neck turns into a shrug for Genna with just some elastic in the back and a some ribbon to trim the sides.

Another identical old mock turtle neck turns into a very different shrug for Genna. For this one, I was inspired by this cardigan at Happy Together.

(And she couldn't resist a silly pose!)

Stain Covering

This is for Isaac...a hand drawn back hoe for my little construction boy. He wore it on Easter Sunday.

This is for Hannah...a stained dress from a flea market turns into a nice summer dress with a little crocheted flower and some ribbon.

These flea market capris had a hole in them, so I covered it up with a flower made of ribbon and a button.


Gifts

Here is a saint dress for a friend's daughter. I made this from a men's shirts. I used ribbon and some ruffle that I got at the flea market in Belgium that just happened to have roses on it. Then I used a pocket from one of the doctor's coats and embroidered her name saint on it. I'll get a picture of it on her soon.

I bought this purse somewhere thinking I could spruce it up and give it as a gift.

This is an ornament for a dear friend who lost her baby Catherine after only 9 days. It is hand drawn and then embroidered.

Disclaimer: I would like to say, I am a total sewing dumby and made so many mistakes that it's not even funny. However, I learned a lot through all of these projects. I would also like to say that these things don't take as much time as you would think. All of this has been done during naps and on the occasional night.