Wordless Wed 330~ The Month of Kentucky Fog: Aug Sunrise

 

Tues Tutorial~ Upcycle Pants or Slacks to Bag

      

      This year my church put together a 1 Day Super VBS. The theme was Jospeh: Pit to Palace. I was asked to try to come up with about 3 bags that would sit at a tent that would possibly hold "The Silver Cup."  While I was looking through my store stash, I found colors that I thought would work. They were my Mother's slacks I had yet to put in a memory quilt.  So here was my solution:

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Tuesday Tips

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Remove the entire seam from crotch to hem.

 

Turn down top edge about 6 inches

or at least enough to go past the pockets.

Fold to center.

Then fold again to meet folded edges.

Top stitch both edges.

 

Here is the second one I made:

 

I only removed the waist band.

No. I did not remove pockets or zipper.

I did a tack stitch at top of zipper 

to keep it closed.

Yes, these were Haggar Ladies' slacks.

Remember them?

 

Don't forget to pick out hems.

This belt was in four pieces

as it was sewn together in back

because back then it was designed

like men's pants

to make adjusting size easier.

 

Notice the yellow marked stitching line.

 

Stitch along the bottom which is the hem areas. 

Turn down top roughly 6 inches.

 

Belt buckle placed and tacked

 on each of the 4 seams.

The ornamental grasses came from beside the front door

of the church.

My Sweet Mr. G planted them a few years ago.

Such a "Sweet" memory.

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Linked to:

Create with Joy

Sum of Their Stories

 

 

 

 

Fun Fri~ 1st House Bday Card for Other Grand Daughter

 

First, I like to sketch out the card

 on a piece of paper the same size as the card.

For some, I need the picture in front of me.

As here and here.

I think this puts into my muscle memory

how large to cut pieces free hand

without a pattern.

 

As I start looking for the right color and texture,

I pull out baskets and bags of scraps.

Its easier for me to look through small clear bags

than 1 large box or bag.

 

The pieces were cut 

and fitted on top of a piece of

embroidery stabilizer scrap cut to shape & size of card.

Then a background was stitched to stabilizer.

Then pieces are stitched onto background.

 

Then the piece is stitched around the edge onto 

the front of the card.

 

Call me crazy,

but wading through my scraps

isn't as messy as 

a bunch of paints,

but just as much fun.