Fabric Addict!!!!

Posted by on November 10, 2010
I’ve gotten e-mails all week long wanting to know where this sock monkey came from! It’s from Applique For Kids! Moda makes a sock monkey fabric too ~ I’ve seen it on Etsy. This is just plain ole brown gingham.
Here is my little Zig Zag Tiara model! Love the Monag Frill Pants!
Of course I couldn’t take Sissy’s picture without taking G’s picture…
Today I took a trip up to Beth’s Heirloom for some regular orange gingham to get some pants made to match a top I bought for M. $87 later…. I decided to stock up on my Fabric Finders big 1/8″ ginghams so I got 1/2 yard of each of these. These are my FAVORITES to applique with! They are nice and thick and WONDERFUL!! I had most of these colors except the pinks, but figured I might as well stock up – they are like $6.50/yard.
I also picked up 1/4 yard of these. I swear I already have these, but if so I got them again!

AND… Fabric Finders houndstooth fabrics. I already had lime green, so I got the brown, red, orange and the pink is actually cord. Then the brown micro houndstooth too (I’d love the micro in baby blue!).

I love this dot and did the newest Christmas tree in it. It may be Fabric Finders also?

I needed not 1 of these fabrics! Well, I did need the orange gingham which is not pictured, but the rest were just to add to my collection. I am a FABRIC ADDICT, as well as a FABRIC HOARDER (meaning I can’t part with any of it)! Here’s proof…

ALL SLAM FULL OF FABRIC!
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Dress Makeover

Posted by on November 9, 2010
I mentioned in a post a while back or on Facebook that Consignment Sales are a great place to find deals on stuff that can be appliqued or re-monogrammed. Here is a lime green cord A-line dress I bought this past Fall ~ I think it was like $4 or maybe $8 at the most BECAUSE it had a monogram on it. I’m sorry I didn’t take a “before” picture, but I was able to easily pick the monogram out and chose to put this Scalloped Patch from EB over it with an M in this font.
The dress is folded here but you can see it has pink buttons and pink ric rac on the bottom! A great deal for $4-8 (I cannot remember!!!). Some monograms are NOT meant to pick out – the tight curly ones are hard work! If you look at the bobbin thread and can barely see any (on the underside), then skip it or plan to put a patch OVER it. I could have NOT picked this monogram out, but it was an easy one and I thought the patch would lay flat and look nicer with it out. I have 2 more tops/dresses to pick the monograms out when I get time. Sometimes you can monogram over it (spray w/ water and iron to see what the hole-condition is).
Here is our Auburn Christmas Tree again, and I bought 2 Football Santa ornaments for it yesterday. Anyway, I got this from Kinnucan’s which is located in Montgomery and Auburn, AL that I know of (I think there are several more locations – check the website). With AU doing so well this year, I’m sure you might find these at any sports store at some point. Just beware – I saw one of these at a consignment type store a couple of weeks ago and they were trying to sell it for $85!! Kinnucan’s has the 3 ft for like $35 and if you are an account holder they always have coupons. They also have a 6 ft one for $109 I believe if you’re REALLY an Auburn fan!
We have someone coming to see the house tonight, so we’re cleaning up and will have to make ourselves scarce for a while. I am heading to a Hollywood Baby trunk show ~ evidently they have some Gabiano blank tees that are cute for cheap!
I updated my note above about orders ~ I pretty much have enough to keep me busy this week and next and am going to get all of my C’mas orders done by the first of December. Therefore, I’m not taking in anything else until at least December 1st, and will then take a limited amount of orders to last me a couple of weeks in December. I’d like to enjoy Thanksgiving and Christmas with the family, and with us showing the house we never know when all of the sewing room has to be taken down! I AM able to leave my machine and computer out, but the rest has to be put up! Wish us luck on the showing tonight…
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Customer Shirts and G’s Pumpkin

Posted by on November 8, 2010
Here are several shirts I did last week for one of G’s buddies at school and his little brother. Mom wanted BOY stuff (planes, trains, automobiles) and all of the shirts are Garanimals from Walmart. They are also all dark colored tees which is a great idea for little boys! First, I did the AC Tractor minus the patch and the AC airplane (one of our first designs) on Embroidery-Boutique’s rounded square patch.

Next, the AC Zig Zag Dump Truck (which is one of my favorite boy designs) and the AC Bulldozer. Gray was a tricky color but I like the red and black on it.

Next… love the Riley Blake fabric with all the transportation, so I put this on layered AC Rectangle Patches. This is the 4×4 layered on the 5×7. Also, AC Helicopter which is another one of my favorites for boys.

Lastly, the AC Zig Zag Train and EB’s Chunky Applique Alphabet ~ his initials in some cute road construction fabric that “Mimi” sent me in exchange for some patchwork fabric I sent her! Again, gray was a tricky color but the Road Closed signs had gray in them so I thought it was perfect! I also have this road construction fabric with a brown background.
After having to postpone last Wed., G’s preschool (4 yr old classes) went to the Pumpkin Patch on Friday.  After Halloween, but it’s still Fall and we were the only people there so it was great! Luckily I only have my zoom lens on my camera right now, so I was able to catch a couple of shots of him from far away picking out his pumpkin! He was determined to pick it up!
He got it off the ground, but didn’t make it too far…
Love this picture! I also LOVE this t-shirt! It’s a khaki Garanimals tee from Walmart and it is SO SOFT!! I went back to Walmart last week and got him a khaki turtleneck b/c I like this color so much. You can’t see the pumpkin, but it is from Nobbie Neez kids and it’s the first pumpkin applique I ever bought! I did it in orange cord for this shirt and it has a simple brown thread stem and green thread leaves. It’s a great applique!
Yesterday the fam went to Auburn for Homecoming. It was F-R-E-E-Z-I-N-G, but we had a great time! When I say fam, I mean all 5 of us, Jeff’s parents, his sister and her 4 kids. We made it til halftime and then came home! I went to Troy and Jeff went to Auburn. He is a HUGE Auburn fan. I have family that graduated from there too so I’ve grown up being an Auburn fan, BUT….. my boys are crazy Auburn fans! They are obsessed (like watch the game on TIVO 5 times the week after). It’s fun and annoying at the same time!

Sat night we bought the boys a 3 foot blue and orange Christmas tree for their room along with orange & blue lights – it’s plugged in and ready to be decorated for Christmas! Mallory has a cute pink tree that I can’t wait to get out again this year, so why not a War Eagle Christmas tree (or right now, a War Eagle night light)?

Last but not least, we FINALLY showed our house today! It’s been a week and 2 days of keeping it clean and “ready” every single day, so when the Realtor called this morning I got a little excited about our first customer!! The people who looked loved it, but they have to sell their lake house first. They do have someone interested it seems, so we’ll see if anything happens and hopefully someone else will want to come see our CLEAN house sometime soon!! I’m pretty sure that the day I leave it a mess, someone will call to come see it.
We have 2 new AC designs for this week already, with 2-3 more to come! We’ve sold lots of gift certificates too and hopefully everyone will pass the word along and put them on their Christmas list! Hint Hint!!
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