Okay, seriously…I didn’t get all of this done this week.  I need to eat, too.  😉  I signed up to do a stash sewing competition on a (mostly) children’s sewing forum I frequent.  Basically for the month of May you try to use your fabric, notions, etc. and you get points for everything you make.  Contests are always good motivators for me.  Especially since we are finally getting near warm weather and my kids need some stuff.  Not Anya really, but she will still get cute dresses because I can’t stop sewing the cuteness. 🙂

This is what I have done so far for this month.   I made the kids lined spring fleece jackets from a pattern (New Look 6667).  I deviated from the pattern, and had a few issues with the zippers not lying right.  Oh well, they fit and the kids love them. 🙂  Anya’s is pink fleece with a flannel on the inside.  The zipper was about half an inch too long so I did some pulling of the fabric to get it to work.  It’s not a masterpiece but it is warm!  Kai’s is black fleece with two different dragon woven prints.  I didn’t have enough of one for the lining, so I ended up using two.

Then I made Kai some shorts from the latest Ottobre pattern magazine to match one of the shirts I had printed for him at Spreadshirt.com.  I think these are pretty cute and they mostly fit him.  The pattern was impossible to trace, so I think I traced off a wrong piece.  They are a little tight, but they fit since the black denim has a little stretch.  I will make the next pair a little bigger. 

These are those super duper luxury “spa” neck wraps that you can throw in the microwave for two minutes.  They are so simple to make.  I used Jasmine and Basmati rice (they are rounder so they don’t poke through the fabric) sprinkled with a little essential oil.  I bought the essential oil in the candle section at Micheal’s, and I got Lavender, Fresh Linen and Relax.  They smelled so purty!  The three together were Mother’s Day gifts for my Mom, Brian’s Mom and my Grandma Jo.  The pretty fabric is a cover they can throw in the wash, too. 

The next one was a gift for a friend that is incredibly late.  I made her a “spa package”, complete with a little silk makeup bag filled with SkinMedica products.  Hopefully that makes up for it being so late!

I made four pillows for the couches at work, too.  They asked me to make some that matched the remodeled decor from last summer.  We have couches the guests sit on and they were a bit plain.  I bought some 20″ goose down pillow forms and some wonderful olive embroidered and gray duiponi silk.  They feel so luxurious and look a lot better in person.

Love it when I can work with luxury fabrics and don’t have to buy them myself LOL!  Silk frays a little, but other than that it isn’t too hard to work with.  I made them one evening after the kids went to bed, and I could have gotten them done much faster if I had done it more assembly line.  Oh well. *yawn* 😉   There’s even a little bit of fabric leftover that I can use for some of my projects (another makeup bag, perhaps?).  They got me some very nice Vera Wang Calla Lilies for making them.  Don’t they look pretty on our new countertop? 🙂

 Then I made a few things for myself.  I’m still…ermmmm…”fluffy” from the winter.  During the two hot days last week Ii realized I have hardly any warm weather shirts for work that fit.  I like to keep my tummy rolls to myself and hidden under loose fabric whenever possible. 

I didn’t have patterns for these items and just used some stuff I had for the sizing and to draft up the pieces.  The red shirt and white/black shirt are actually the same pattern.  I just changed it up a bit. 

Then I made a dress for me, which I used a dress I bought at Ann Taylor Loft for the measurements.   It was a bit more involved than I thought it would be, but I might make it again.  We’ll see.

this picture is little since I didn’t have any makeup on and hadn’t showered 😉

Okay, that’s it!  My to-do list is a bit long, so I have more on my sewing table.  *sigh*  Always more to do!