SEWING

I Inherited Ma Deans sewing machine a while back and I dug it out of the closet yesterday. Its a great little machine although, Anna said its behind the times. (her home class at school has easy peasy machines  :] )

I have a few tops I got from the thrift store  but they were about a size to big. Nothing ever fits me right and my Aunt Pat said she just alters her own clothes to fit so, I decided to try the same. So far so good!!!

The above top I took in from the length of the sides and now its comfy and cute!! $1.50 :}

This one was to long and big on side of boobs. Now, It fits perfect! This stitching on the top was already white so I did a cute zig zag stitch at the bottom. $ 1.50 :}

I am notttt a master sewer but I can handle this simple stuff. I would love to get better and create my own tops. Anyone ever work with patterns??? I want to try veryyyy simple ones. Everything at the stores is tight on my bust football shoulders area if the length fits and to big all around on the next size up, ughhh!

QUITE the pillow aye. It was a bed spread my gram gave me years ago. Cliff wasn't gonna go for it on our bed so I painfully cut it up (hoping gram wasn't gonna strike me with lightening from heaven) and turned it into a pillow. Now I can enjoy it and think of grandma instead of just stuffing it in the closet somewhere :}! If you have precious family fabrics that don't exactly work in your house maybe transform it into something you can actually enjoy on a daily. You could make a pretty quilt if you have lots of handed down blanket or fabrics etc.,pillow cases, actual pillows, stuffed animals,maybe frame a piece etc.

Every time I look at this pillow I am sent back in time when Me and my grandmother were in her bedroom together. She was showing me some of her things and when She saw I loved the print on the above bedspread her eyes lit up to find a kindred spirit. She passed it on to me with love. Cutting it up was hard but When you start losing your loved ones to heaven you don't want all their past down treasures stuffed in draws and boxes,you want to enjoy them and think of them. I'll be working on some other similar projects soon :].

 Time to get moving for me now.

Have a great day everyone!!

Its Friday working women!!! Yippeeee!!! Enjoy!!!

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