Coffee Cozies

Made these coffee cozies, and the little fabric box they're sitting in, for the local animal shelter.  Hope they sell as would be happy to make more.  

Made a ton of these for Movember, painted moustaches on them.  Think they raised around $300 for Testicular Cancer.  

Baby Jeans

A friend of my son had a baby.  They're huge Seattle Seahawks fans (I don't even know what sport that is (haha)) so I made these jeans for them.  

Blackjack Bag

My Mom has dementia and is living in a care home.  She's almost 94 years old!  She can't do much these days unfortunately but can still be sort of guided along with familiar old games.  I made this bag for her and filled it with tons of old buttons (see earlier blog about those) and a deck of cards.  Put the label on so other visitors know what it's for in case they want to play with her.

She doesn't get many visitors these days as can't really carry on a conversation anymore.  Was the social life of the party before so is sad, but I'm just glad she still knows us :).  

Vegan Purse for daughter

Yes, we're vegan and don't mind advertising it once in awhile.  I made this bag specially for her to take to work.  She was working at GNC and they banned backpacks to prevent staff from stealing.  Yet you could carry a huge bag ??? go figure.  Anyway, she asked if I'd made a large bag for her to wear cross body that would hold all her school books so she could study at work during her breaks.  

I used 2 of those free zippers in this bag and made the strap extra wide.  I find that adding more top stitching down the strap helps to reinforce it.  Doing that to all my straps now.    

The strap is shorter than usual as she said it's easier to carry all that weight when it's up closer to her torso.  Hey, I just follow orders :).  

 Daughter on the treadmill in the background :).

Hoodies with Zippers

Made 3 hoodies.  I just can't have too many hoodies as wear them around the house, to the gym, under coats in Winter, etc.  

These separating zippers were a real find.  Got 105 of them free at a place that recycles textiles, etc.  Have been using them in bags, purses, jackets, etc.

I made the other "hoodies" with no hoods as thought they'd be cute.  Not cute and regret doing so.  See them below.

Here are the first 2 I made without hoods.  Have since added pockets to them all.  Frustrating not having somewhere to put my keys when out and about.  They're all really flattering on as are shaped in at the waist and slope down at the back.

I've had this pink fabric hanging around for ages, was nice to finally use it up.

 This is my favourite fabric as is a really fluffy grey.  Unfortunately it's pilling quite a big (thanks to the fluff) but I still really like it.  Bought the fabric at Fabricana but didn't buy enough for a hood or pockets.  The pockets I added were from old jeans the same colour and I really like the look.

Ruffled Baby Bloomers

I made a 3rd pair in dark green with beige lace.  They're actually my favourite.  Didn't bother getting a pic of them.  

No, don't have any babies to give them to.  Not really gift worthy as no top or dress to go with them.  They're just made out of scraps and lace I thrifted from Value Village a couple of years ago.  

I'm a parenting coach so may just offer these to a client or something, not sure?  

Zipper Bags, fully lined

When I feel like sewing I don't always have a project in mind.  That's when I turn to stash busting.  Here are some little zipper bags I made from scraps.  They're all lined and I just made zipper pulls out of ribbon for an added touch.  

What sparked these projects was that I found a bag of about 20 7" zippers at Value Village for around $2.  

No idea what I'm going to do with these bags, probably just give them to a homeless shelter.