Bob's Vintage Quilt

My latest project, his blankets were 'lost' in the move! This includes pockets for storage, and lots of old, outgrown pants and shirts. With the heavy top fabric, the center and back are just a layer of cotton each. Still, very warm.

His old jeans and favorite shirts

Playing 'Thread Chicken', didn't make it

It was sure a heavy quilt to move around!

 

New Jammies For Me

 

It's been a little cool and overcast, and drizzly.

I prefer to work on the patio, with all that fresh air and sunshine, but the past week or so, it hasn't been so bright and clear, so I've been preparing things that I can come back to and put together when the weather is less damp and more sunny.

One of those projects is a new pair of jammies for me, in silk, they will be beautiful! And there are a project or two that I have uncovered that I didn't quite finish in the past, that I will get onto very soon and get them out of the door.

New Silk Jammies for me

Figment Big Shirt - Fixed

Bought a shirt at Walt Disney World, in Epcot - a Figment long sleeved, something like a sweatshirt, made of man-made fabrics, more like a woven. It was made as a 'short-shirt', for baring the midriff. Why anyone wearing a long-sleeved sweatshirt like shirt would want to bare their midriff, I can NOT imagine. So, while I like the art that is on the shirt, the Figment in multicolor, the shirt wasn't wearable as it was. We had to buy the very biggest size, and then change it to make it fit. The above was the first pin up of what it might become.

I slit the front, added a non stretch cotton, and then added a multicolor zipper, and took it in, to make it something that could be worn.

NOT DeniseMadeIt

Found this online. I don't know what it is, I didn't follow the link, but I can tell you what it isn't. It isn't @DeniseMadeIt!!

 

Seasonal Dresses!

A friend needed a new dress or two, and sent a photo.

I decided to send a seasonal spin on the photo, to see if they would work for her. I made the first one (using a separate tee pattern and skirt pattern, couldn't find one with both together) and found that the Tee was too long, so I had to pull it apart and fix it. In the winter seasonal dress (green top) the 2nd and 3rd tier of the skirt are the suggested sizes, cut out just as the pattern shows, but they are the 2nd and 3rd tier, it was too long to include the first tier. in the fall seasonal, (gold top) I changed the pattern lengths to get all three tiers in.

Once completed, I realized a belt was important to make it look finished, so I made one, that was reversible, to give a little different look. I think they turned out very well (photos taken prior to hand sewing down the neck facing, sorry.)

First Attempt, tee too long	Ripped it apart, tee better length	Needed it in more colors
It needs a reversible belt!	The other side of the belt	Seasonal belt in just red
Belt with holiday appeal

Clothing Protectors (bibs)

They look like shirts, but they aren't, they are worn over shirts, to protect clothes from anything that might drip. They are 'Bob's Bibs'. 

Once this stage is completed, you can add plastic wrap to the back or front (that wrap that sticks to the bowl will stick to the fabric) for extra protection. To see how I made this, pop over to  my How-To pages.

Golf-style collared shirt

Tee shirt style shirt

Button-down collared

Tee shirt style again

Halloween Kitchen Towels

I've just started on these. Some of them have the reverse side decorated, but they are all decorative kitchen towels. For those with shoes, one side of the shoes are black, the other side are ruby slippers (or gold elfin shoes, both of which take some time to create.)

Ruby slippers and pumpkins	The back of image number 1	Smaller strip Ruby and pumpkins	The back of image number 3
The back of ruby and autumn	Ruby slippers and autumn

Day 2, Tina and I have been busy! One on designs, the other doing the sewing, to get a different spin on some of these (these do not have reverse side finishing):

Tan towel with leaves falling	Black towel - leaves along bottom	This is the back of the red apron
Red towel with apron and bows	Tan with border and leaves	Black towel with decorated apron

    And More!!

A witch with ghosts and slippers

An elf

Those cute elf shoes

An Autumn Witch

And we just keep making more! There are lots of supply's still available for us to continue!

Blue towel and snow scene	Red towel with decorated apron	An Autumn towel	A girl elf
Poinsettias	Tan towel with autumn	Tan towel with pumpkins	Angels on Blue
Autumn Feel	Elfin Shirt with bells	Elf dress	Another Girl Elf
And another girl elf	Spiders	A witch with spider decorations	Blue with Tree scene
Black - orange and silver leaves	Green - orange and silver leaves	Blue with silver leaves	Red with blue snow design
Blue with snow scene	Tan with silver leaves	Green with orange and gold leaves