Christmas – Page 2 – Sew Bittersweet Designs

Because everyone needs giraffe pants…

9 Comments / 2015 Finishes, Christmas, Clothes / By Melissa Dunworth

This week I made Anne a pair of giraffe pants. You may remember her giraffe hoodie I made last year.

Holy cuteness batman! I mean seriously!

Well, this weekend we were going through her pants drawer looking for sweats, only to discover that none of her pairs fit anymore. Not surprising since she has grown about 4″ from last winter. Happily I had just barely enough giraffe fabric left over to make her a lovely pair of pants!

If you ask me, she is still pretty darn cute!

I made my own pattern using a pair of her jeans and I serged them together on the Pfaff serger that I never use. Then I hemmed them and put in the waistband on my Janome 15000. I love that I’ve gotten to the point in my sewing where I am quite content to sew without patterns. It’s a nice morale booster for this lady!

So here is the first of my Christmas sewing, these are an early present to her so she doesn’t freeze during our Pacific Northwest winter.

Happy Holiday Sewing!

A Lovely Year of Finishes – December Goal Party

6 Comments / A Lovely Year of Finishes, Christmas, Fiber of All Sorts / By Melissa Dunworth

Hello December! That wonderful time of year, filled with cheery lights and manic sewing. Deadlines to hit and not a single extra minute to spare. Those homemade gifts are always well loved and received because people know you went the extra mile.

My goal is to finish up a couple of gifts for family and teacher gifts too. No pictures to show other than to say, I will be spending some quality time with the embroidery unit on my machine!

How about you?

What one item will you choose?

You have two requirements to be entered into the prizes this month.

1. Link-up {on this post} the first 7-days of the month

Please choose ONE project

and

2. Link-up in the last 7-days of the month

Only with a completed, successful project. And yes the same one that you choose earlier in the month.

Add your blog post or flickr photo (with appropriate descriptions) to the linky party below.

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**Please note, the linky party is the same here and over at Shanna, so there is no need to enter twice **

Here’s our amazing prizes this month…thank you sponsors!

1. Green Fairy Quilts – 3 pdf patterns

2. $15 gift certificate from Fat Quarter Shop

3. One PDF pattern from Michele of Aiming for Accuracy

4. PDF Pattern from Katy – The Littlest Thistle

5. One PDF Pattern from Meadow Mist Designs

6. PDF Pattern from Persimon Dreams

7. One pdf Pattern from Clover and Violet

8. One Charm pack or $10.00 gift certificate to
Stitches n’ Giggles (winners choice)

9. Sew BitterSweet Designs one pdf pattern

10. One PDF pattern from Sew Sweetness

11. One PDF pattern from Honey, Bunny, and Doll Designs

12. Thimblepie’s Quilt Supplies – Custom fabric package, 3 yards plus free shipping anywhere

More Christmas Sewing

6 Comments / Christmas, Clothes / By Melissa Dunworth

While we have been at my mom’s house I have been able to get some sewing done. My mom has a Janome 8900, which is a lovely machine to sew on, if I do say so myself.

On Thursday I made Anne a new skirt for our family reunion this weekend. I don’t have any pics of Anne wearing the shirt, but here is a pic of it all finished.

The pattern was super frustreating but my mom and I are talented enough sewists that we were able to figure it out and make it work.

How is your holiday sewing shaping up?

A Visit With Santa

6 Comments / Christmas / By Melissa Dunworth

I love this age, Santa is finally fun and exciting, as opposed to scary and frightening. I thought I would share Anne’s picture with Santa this year. We aren’t visiting a mall Santa. Instead, our local fire department came to our neighborhood with one of the trucks decked out with lights and music, complete with Santa. They also don’t ask for money for pictures, instead they ask for canned food items to fill our local food bank. It is a win-win. Happy kids and helping our community!

And here is a shot of the truck. The people riding on top are Santa’s Helpers, they collect all of the donations.

Santa was kind enough to whisper in my ear what Anne asked for too, so that makes my life so much easier!

Happy Holidays Everyone!

Christmas Decorating

5 Comments / Christmas / By Melissa Dunworth

Well…not really. Yes our house is decorated, but what I made is intended to decorate someone else’s house.

This is going off in a care pack in the next day or so. I hope it’s new owner likes it.

It is a Cathedral Window ornament. I meshed together two different tutorials to make it, not really following either exactly… This tutorial by Kim from My Go-Go Life and this tutorial by Jamie from SunFlower Seeds. I’m admittedly bad at following instructions but I think what I made works and is pretty.

I hope the recipient loves it! Though I have been assured she loves decorating for Christmas so that does give me hope!