Coffee Cozy Tutorial by Erin Harris House on Hill Road

I've been looking all over the internet for a tutorial for making a coffee cozy, and Erin Harris of House on Hill Road has one! Yippee!!

Go to http://houseonhillroad.typepad.com/coffeecozy.pdf for the tutorial, then hang around her blog for other good sewing stuff at:
http://houseonhillroad.typepad.com/

Sewing and converting long pants into shorts.

These are my current thoughts at the moment. Taking all the long pants that I made this past winter, and converting them into shorts.

• Putting ruffles on the ends of the capri/shorts.
• Adding a contrasting fabric band on the end of the capri/shorts.

But how to I convert these pants into shorts, that won't have that dreaded "baby butt crack"?

Are the pants that currently have that tendency not recyclable?

Do I need to add a fabric pant to the top of the pants?

What are your thoughts?

gaileee

Skip To My Lou Tutorial on Felt Food! Yum!!

Skip To My Lou has this cool tutorial on Felt Food! Post a button and get the template for free!!

Sewing this week?

Just been in contemplation mode this week. Although, I did get the Ottobre Magazine.

I did finish recycled PJ #2 last night, and Toddler Grace wore it last night to bed. Neckline came out on the loose side vs the tight side from the week before. Guess I'll have to watch Izzie's recommended neckline "tube" from Threads!

gaileee

Recycled t-shirt into pj dress

Hi,
Just a quick note. I took Tammy's notes from her t-shirt demo/tutorial that she did with me back in December, and took an old t-shirt of mine from Gap, an proceeded to turn it into a PJ dress for Grace. I "Recycled"! Woo woo!

Tammy had given me these strips of cloth to use for binding the neckline and the sleeves. I had to call her once to try to figure out how long to do the neck. Well I buggered that up, as it was too short! Thats okay, it is just a pj, and I'm not going to "un-sew", unless, of course it doesn't go over her head. (hey, I had to sew this when she was asleep, and I'm off to play the fiddle in church....no time to try on.)

Sew, maybe later on today, she'll try it on, I'll have to un-sew..(ahem), but it went great! I used the original hem of the shirt, so I didn't have to make a shirt hem.

gaileee