Sewing Projects

I love being crafty. In fact, when I was younger I could think of no better way to spend my Saturdays than being holed up in my room constructing some sort of project. My family never had a lot of money, but that was never a problem for me, since I usually tried to come up with some way I could make the things I wanted.

I am happy now that I like to make things, especially now that they are useful for my everyday life. My new living room is now dominated by a beautiful picture my husband got for me for my birthday.

It has changed the colors of my entire living room. As I believe going out to buy new throw pillows, etc. is a big waste when I have perfectly good throw pillows, I have decided to make new covers for my existing pillows (which are already sporting covers which I made last year).

So I went to the fabric store last week and spend ages picking out the perfect fabrics and came up with these:

Close up

Close up

The red and mustard yellow in the front are felt and will be used to make rose pillows like the one I made last year:

I am also hoping to make one or two with this look to them:

So cute!

Another sewing project I will begin soon is to make sleep shirts. I found a simple tutorial at another blog to make these night shirts:

The pattern is based off of a pillowcase dress and is so easy to make. I love cute night shirts, and I decided to make some for my sisters and sister in laws. And a few for myself hopefully. It was very difficult for me to find some cute jersey knit fabrics to make these with, but I finally found some at Hobby Lobby yesterday:

We'll see how they turn out!

So there are my projects which are just itching to be done, but I of course have to carve what little time I do have to begin them.