I've Been Bitten by the Bug...

The sewing bug! I'm not sure when it happened, but I can't get enough of fabric and patterns. I know it's gotten bad because Friday night Tim asked if I wanted to watch a movie and I declined, because I wanted to sew. What! The start of school is looming, so I've been trying to get in as much sewing time as possible, so much so that I keep putting off working in my classroom. (This is bad, because I had a dream about the first day of school and it wasn't pretty.)

Anyway, here are a few of the things I've been working on.

I have so many friend/ relatives/ co-workers that are expecting babies that I thought these burp cloths and baby blankets would be perfect gifts. My mom helped me get started and showed me a few sewing tricks. I've got two more sets of fabric to work on.

I found the pattern for this purse on-line and thought I'd give it a try. This is the example my mom and I made. We just used fabric she had to see how it worked out. It turned out to be surprisingly easy and cute!

Here is the second bag I made. I stopped in Lawrence at Sarah's Fabrics (I love that place!) and bought some fabric. On accident I ended up getting the same fabric as the lady who made the pattern. I also made a few modifications from the first one, shortened the strap and added a few more pockets on the inside. I have more fabric for another bag and I'm hoping to make a little bag to go with it.

This bag originally started out as a $9 Wal-Mart t-shirt. I had a different idea in mind when I thought about this bag, but I couldn't get it to workout right, so this is was I came up with. I'm thinking this bag will be great for Cardinal games. I'm not a huge Ryan Ludwick fan, but I couldn't see myself cutting up a Pujols shirt, especially when I wasn't sure how it would work out. (Not to mention that Ludwick t-shirts were $9 and Pujols t-shirts were $14.)

I think this takes care of #11, sew 5 things!