Monday, July 23, 2007

My sewing pictures at last

I did a bit of editing this morning (Fri) and it looks better but I am still not happy with the breaks. I'll just keep trying.

Can anyone tell me how to avoid all these spaces left in my post? I can't seem to get rid of the dang things. I tried "help" but could not find what I want. Any suggestions will be appreciated.

I know I said that I would have pictures to post over a week ago and I have not come through with them yet. Well, the projects are done and I have taken the pics and now if I can get them to upload they are here.
I told you about the skirt and bag that I made for "adopted" son's wedding. Well, when I made the bag it was such fun and so easy that I decided to make bags for my girls as well. My DD has a thing for turtles so when I found this print with turtles I knew I just had to make something for her and a bag it is.
It is really cute. I don't know if you can see the beads around it or not, but they are there. I guess if you enlarge the picture you can see them. I showed it to DD this afternoon and she went, "Ahhhhhhhhh." So I guess she likes it.
My DDIL is very into camoflage, so when I found the dessert cammo I decided that would be her bag. I got it all cut out last week and was ready to sew but life got in the way and I did not get around to sewing it until Saturday. (I was out here in my shop doing some embroidery work so I sewed the bag between shirts.) I haven't shown it to her yet so I don't know if she will like it or not. If not, oh well. LOL. Her bead are black. I bought some brownish ones but they really clashed with the cammo colors so I had to go shopping again and find something else. I know that beads and cammo don't really go together but I wanted to add a little bit of a feminine touch to it. DDIL can just live with it, hehe.
And last but certainly not least is my first bag, the one I made for myself. I really love it. I am thinking of taking the flap off and just putting a snap on it. The flap just does not lay correctly. It wants to roll up and I don't like that. I do love the beads that I found for this one. I think they would make great stitch markers. What do you think?
Now that I have started sewing again I want to do some more. I don't have anything cut out but I do have fabric for 3 more skirts. I guess I just need to cut them out.
Yesterday we took my dear MIL and her sister and BIL to cut walking sticks. Uncle D makes them and sells them and dear MIL just makes them. We had a wonderful afternoon. It was not too hot and the walk up the mountainette was not too steep. They both got some nice sticks and were happy with them.
I am going to post this before I lose it again.
Everyone have a great evening.

3 comments:

  1. LOVE your bags! Are these bags after a bought pattern or have you made up your own pattern? Super fabrics and embellishments. I especially love the bag you made for youself--it is delicious! The bead fringe adds that little extra. And those beads would make super stitch markers--good idea! Can't wait to see what you sew up next! Walking sticks--love those. About your gaps between the text. That can have something to do with where you are placing the pictures an the picture size. If you resize the pictures a little smaller that may help. That works more me sometimes. :o)

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  2. Second everything Tracy writes-LOL! The fabrics you've used are great! What do you use for walking sticks??? My grandparents lived in Florida for many years, and Grandpa would make walking sticks out of some palmtree, we each got one,they were nubby, but with a smoth hand..?.., and really nice looking.

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  3. I *love* your bags Judy!! There is just never enough time to do all the great crafty things we like, is there? Having to work is a total PITA. Speaking of PITA items, those spaces....I always get them when I'm placing pictures. You just have to go back and forth a LOT between preview and your post tweaking. I notice that the Blogger interface is most annoyingly NOT WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get). You might have to go into the html page too and see if you can figure out where your codes are for the pictures and re-space some there as well as in the compose tab. I'm no great aces with html code, but you can figure out where the end of your paragraph or photo title is and then do a little adjusting and get it in closer. Always start from the top of the post and work down when tweaking--tweaks up top can sometimes affect things below them so if you start at the bottom first and work up, you mak find yourself having to repeat adjustments. While I love having pictures in my posts, days with a lot of pictures and having to fix the formatting can tick me off pretty good (you can tell when I don't have the patience for all that stuff because I'll go several days without posting just because I don't want to fight with blogger).

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