Project #1

For Christmas my lovely husband, parents, and in-laws combined their pocketbooks and bought me the gift I've been dropping hints about, well, all year probably :)  A sewing machine!  I feel like a whole new world of crafting has opened up to me.

I didn't get around to using it until about 2 weeks after Christmas.  My first project was a sleep sack for Forest.  He's about to grow out of his small sized one, and I didn't want to spend $20 on a new size medium.  Plus I really wanted to try it, because it looked easy.

I laid out the littler sleep sack, traced around it (but bigger) and cut out my fabric.  Then I looked at original, studied it, and sort of deconstructed it, and wrote down the order of steps I'd need to sew it together.   Then I stayed up working on it until 1:30 in the morning when I realized that Forest would be up in 3.5 hours.... oops.  Guess I got carried away!

Here's my fabric all cut out!

My sewing station = the kitched table.

And here's the finished product, next to the original.  One thing I missed when cutting - should have left the neck opening in front a little bigger.  I'm planning to fix that before Forest uses it.

That's right, I installed a zipper on my first project.  Booyah.  (Just don't look too close).  

I have since found many many inspiring sewing blogs, and as I create things I'll show the links where I got the ideas from!  Up next:  Faux chenille baby blanket for Jaimi.  Actually it's already done.  It was on my kitchen table for an entire month.  That's how long it took me...  Because I only had weekend naptimes to work on it, as well as my housework.  Finally finished it with some help from Steve!  But anyway, it will be next on the blog!