Sew Sew Fun! (Take One...)

I am one of those people that like to hoard all of the amazing things that you see on Pinterest...the problem is I never do anything with them! I know I can do them...I am artistic...I am crafty (or so I think)...but I am also lazy when it comes to it. Crafts make such a mess! You spend all day working on something and then you spend the whole next day cleaning the mess and you didn't even finish! Well, recently I found out that my friend Britten knows how to sew but no longer has a sewing machine...who would know that I have a sewing machine and have no clue how to sew!! Ha!
My grandma is an excellent seamstress...has a hole, needs a button, needs to be taken up or out or made shorter...I always call her! She has showed me a thousand times how to sew and it just never stuck. I do know how to thread a needle and do that little trick with your finger that makes the perfect knot but apparently I never paid attention to the rest.
So, this past week, Britten came over and taught me how to sew! Well, at least how to thread the machine! We went to Joann Fabrics first and she kept asking me things like... "does it have a bobbin?"...a what?? So we decided we would get fabric to recover a couple of my pillows that are basically used for Gracie to lay on and scratch and pull and pretty much destroy. The perfect thing for our "starter" project.

We got all the stuff we needed!

So after learning to thread the machine (and bobbin) we got to work! You know the old saying "measure twice, cut once" we should have done this...we ended up with two different sizes for each side of the pillow and after making them even...they were TOO small. So we started over and we ran out of fabric!

We also got some fun fabric that was super on sale that we thought would be cute as a skirt for Dylan. We were going to make it just a little simple skirt with elastic at the top. But, we didn't get any elastic...

Look at those (almost straight) stitches!

Dylan woke  up from her nap and I couldn't wait to try it on her...it was like a mini skirt for a baby. She thought it was awesome but I almost had to cut it off her!

In the end, it was a super fun day and I can't wait to get these projects completed and learn new things! 

To be continued...