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9/26/2020 0 Comments

Bat Wing Top

Halloween is almost here! Can you believe it? 
I mean, it's finally October, which is Halloween month. We start decorating around mid-September and my whole house gets transformed into a "haunted mansion". Halloween is my most favorite holiday ever!! After Thanksgiving of course, because... mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie. Yum! 

Any-who, I want to share a fun top that you can make in a jiffy. You can wear it at home or around town, to the office, or trick or treating with your little ones. I recently made it and had to share it! It's too dang cute to keep it a secret.
Bat wing top sewing pattern free halloween costume
Quick, grab the FREE Gone Batty top from Patterns for Pirates here. Then, click here for the sewingtutorial. It's the cutest!! Talk about a last-minute costume that's appropriate for work and/or school. You can wear it as an everyday top as well. It comes in one size fits most, so no fussy fitting issues to worry about. All the wins with this one! Yes, please!!

I've had a long history of bats through caving experiences and I've grown to love them most of all. Bats are my favorite Halloween creature. When I saw this pattern last year (why did I wait so long??) I had to have it. Umm... a shirt with bat wings, yes please! Bonus, you could even sew white topstitching thread to make it a spiderweb instead, if you wanted. Oooohhh maybe that'll be next year's project. 

What you need:

  • P4P Gone Batty PDF pattern 
  • 1 5/8 yard of Knit fabric
  • Sewing machine with zigzag stitch
  • Sewing supplies and notions
  • Halloween music playing in the background (this is a must)

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9/25/2020 0 Comments

Halloween Sewing

How to make a Halloween pillow and other Halloween sewing projects
Once upon a time, there was a lady who bought some fabric she didn't have any plans for. She saw it online and had to have it. No clue what she'd do with the fabric, she decided to buy it anyway. That's the tale of every sewist at one time or another, right? We buy fabric without a clue what we'll use it for. We love the fabric. Give us aallll the fabric!! Here are some spooky things you can make with Halloween fabric. Disclaimer: they're not really spooky. ;)
Halloween pillow DIY sewing tutorial
Halloween sewing AGF spooky and sweet fabric panel
Art gallery fabric Happy Halloween sewing project
Trick or Treat fabric from art gallery
Halloween fabric panel AGF DIY project
Halloween sewing projects sweet and spooky fabric panel
AGF sweet and spooky fabric panel

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9/18/2020 3 Comments

Sewing a circle bag

How to make a circle shape bag
The air is crisp and the leaves are sprinkling the ground as I type. Apple picking season is among us. I tried to hold on to summer but, there's no escaping it. Fall is here. Yay! I am ready, bring on my favorite season.
My creative side has been lacking lately so, I wanted to try something new. Usually, I only share patterns that I love or havecreated myself. But, I wanted to shake things up around here. So, I'm sharing one of my sewing fails. Yes, a fail. A major sewing fail. Face-palm.
​Here's the circle bag.
How to make vinyl purse straps for a bag

I wanted to try my hand at something new for the upcoming season. I saw a circle bag in a shop and knew I wanted to make one. I had light brown vinyl and planned on using it for a cute Autumnal bag. After scouring the interwebs for a free pattern, I settled with what I thought was a good one.  Welp, the pattern was not great. I don't want to throw anyone under the bus so, I'm not saying where I got the pattern. But it was "meh" at best.


I knew from the beginning this was going to be an experiment. Yay for experiments! I created a Fall themed embroidery file to place on the front, just in case the purse turned out cute. I didn't want a boring brown circle bag. 
The embroidery design has leaves, pumpkins, and a scarecrow. Fun! Although, the scarecrow was a little wonky.... don't look too close. ;)

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Following the instructions, I gathered everything that was needed and cut out the pieces. I embroidered on the front circle only, that's the only area everyone will see. I used mismatched hardware for the strap (it's what I had on hand) and I used a brown zipper. Fall bag, here I come!

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    Hi there, I'm Annette and I love eating and sewing. I usually have a cup of coffee or tea with me, but not next to my machine because I'd probably spill it. I am the reason we can't have nice things.

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