Can't wait to get quilting!!

  Moda Charm Pack "Spa" By Deb Strain
 I have found ebay and amazon are great places to find high quality quilting fabric at lower than retail prices!

These are just a few I have accumulated over a few months time! I need to make them into quilts!! I have this terrible habit of buying fabric and not doing anything with it!

Memory quilt

Hey my mommy friends...If any of you have old flannel receiving blankets from when your little one was younger and are tired of having them stacked up or lying around, how would you like a $35 (+shipping) memory quilt made from them? All you need to do is send me the blankets and I will re-purpose them into a memory quilt complete with your child's name, weight, length and date of birth embroidered in a spot of your choosing. If you ladies have friends with children I would greatly appreciate you passing the word around!

This one I made from some of my daughter's receiving blankets and those flannel blankets that come in packs of 5 at Target.

This one I am in the process of making for a lady in FL. She sent me some embroidered burp cloths and some flannel receiving blankets. Something like this I usually charge $35 for but she only had enough material to make the front side so her quilt will run around $43 depending on how much fabric we need for the back and a few squares she wants to replace!!

Questions, Comments, Product Reviews

If you have any questions, comments, or are interested in having someone do a product review, please feel free to contact me using my Contact me page :)

Wrist Key Chain

I made a wrist key chain today for a fellow Army wife! They are quick, simple and very stylish! I found a tutorial here. I changed my design a bit but basically followed her great instructions!

I used ACU material, added embroidery, and I used 1.5" ribbon instead of two different materials! I plan on selling them for $8 a piece with embroidery or $6 without. If you have any suggestions please feel free to comment.

5/28/2012

Well today is Memorial Day and my husband, the soldier, is working... Not a great way to celebrate Memorial day but I guess it will have to do :)
Last night and this morning I uploaded all my photos for my ACU purse tutorial! Whew, glad that is over! Seems like it took longer than it actually did. I also made a few changes to my page. I added tabs, centered my banner better and changed some fonts and font colors. Please if you have any suggestions feel free to comment!!
I hope you all have a happy and exciting Memorial Day!

Picture copied from Small Wars Journal

So I want to start by introducing myself and telling you readers a little about my business. My name is Tiffany and I am a wife, mother and sewing machine! Haha! My husband is active duty military and it has been rather hard to find a job as the area surrounding a military installation is swamped with qualified applicants. So thus, I started making things. I started out with a Singer machine, one of those $80 deals from Walmart. Well needless to say, it died after two years and literally two uses. I was devastated until my husband surprised me this past Christmas with a brand new Brother Project Runway sewing machine. I was so excited I almost cried! I could continue making things! YAY! So I started small, a pillow case style dress for my daughter. I made it out of three handkerchiefs and some pink ribbon.

After that I made a few little things and then started to want to be able to do more. I purchased a Brother Serger and a Brother embroidery machine PE-770. I started making dog/cat collars covers.

 

They were simple and quick. Pretty straight forward design. Quick cuts, folds and a zip through the serger and presto done! The cost for an embroidered cover is $19.99 or a simple cover could start at around $9. After making a few and one for my husband's friend's new dog, I saw an opportunity to cash in and decided to open an etsy. this is my etsy, there isn't much there as of yet but I am hoping to build an audience first, then post more and more to the shop! Last week I made a camera strap cover for a wife from my husband's unit. I had to make it twice b/c my lines were not 100% straight and my husband and I decided maybe making a new one would be better than having an unsatisfied customer! My husband is very picky and has an incredible eye for detail, which helps when I don't see very well and often refuse to wear my glasses!

Above is the finished product! I love it and wish I had a camera strap to make myself one. They are fun and easy to make and can be customized a million different ways. This one is made from heavy duck cotton and minky fabric. It is also padded, for a more comfortable fit! I added the key chain for free b/c it took me a day past when I told her I would finish. These sell for around $25. I can embroider ($5) and add pockets to them also. The price depends on the fabric used, the amount of time to construct and any customizations. I have fabrics ranging from canvas to silk.

After tackling these more simple projects I moved on to something a bit more in depth. My husband's father passed away almost 6 years ago and we had a bunch of his old t-shirts folded in our closet for years. I decided to try my hand at quilting. I can say this...Never again. The only way I will make another quilt is if I absolutely have to. They are time consuming and my hands still hurt.

I am not 100% proud of it b/c the lines are a little wonky and it is not symmetrical. My husband likes it and I like that the shirts were made into something my husband can use to comfort himself and keep himself warm with :)

After finishing that I posted a picture of some crude examples of key chains with different hardware and some embroidery for $8 a pop. One of my husband's Sergent's wives told me she wanted one so now I have been trying to master those!

Well, as soon as I get those 100% I will be attempting an ACU purse. I haven't found a pattern I like as of yet so I am making my own from scratch and then I will upload all my pictures from start to finish and make a tutorial! I find it kind of rude that there are so few free tutorials for this specific purse design. Only service members loved ones would want one or want to make one so why not spread the love and help a fellow sister create one from her husband's top? Well as soon I get it put together I will get it put up!

Thank you for reading and I hope to make this a daily habit worth continuing!