Wordless Wednesday #39~Grandson Toes

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Christmas 2012's Gift Bagging

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     Every year I try to give all my gifts the same wrapping.
     Sometimes ideas come easy and sometimes they don't.  Last year I was proud of my gift wrapping.  (Review last year.)    This year nothing really hit me as fascinating and creative.  I did have a roll of  off white knit fabric I had bought for about 3$ @ Restore a year or so ago.  So I whipped up easy bags with handles and serged the edges with one of the four threads being a heavy weight thread in the likes of crochet thread.  I had to by-pass a couple of thread guides to get the heavy look I wanted. 

The handles of the bags were tied to try to resemble a bow.  Stuffed in some red tissue paper, and made super simple name tags which were tied on with serger chained thread.

  I like using/giving cloth bags, because when they travel, I don't have to worry about wear and tear.

    I also hope the receiver uses them again in some way.

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2012 Purse Skirt Pattern a Hit & More Purse Skirt Ideas

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My Free Skirt Purse Pattern w/ Tutorial received the most hits for 2012.  It was posted in September and beat out the other popular posts that had been published earlier in the year. 

The project was also a big hit on my sewing table for Christmas gifts, both for my gift giving, and those that I made for others to give.

I bought a purse for each of my daughters who are big sports supporters.  One is a major University of Kentucky Wildcat fan, and while the other daughter is a UK fan as well, she's the number one fan of her softball playing daughter (my granddaughter!).

So these purse skirts were made from used sweat shirts.

I like using a tissue paper of the pattern when determining placement of logos.

The logo was too high to place the pattern under the neckline, so I folded the pattern in half adding a seam in the center and cut out each side separately.

Notice I topped stitched the center seam to give a little extra support.  

The placement of the logo turned out perfect.

Since I had plenty of fabric leftover, I decided to add a pocket with her embroidered name.

Remember you can find my pattern @  Free Skirt Purse Pattern w/ Tutorial.

I'll show the rest of the purse skirts I made in posts to come.

Meanwhile, let your imaginations go wild with what you can use to make purse skirts.

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