Not Enough Hours in the Day!

Lately, it seems like I run from morning till night
& have been just swamped with all kinds of
projects that are keeping me away from my blog!

Between harvesting & cooking our garden’s
produce, working on the family tree on
Ancestry.com (2 wks free membership!)
& sewing lots of fall outfits
plus making DGD’s Halloween costume (Ariel)
I’m exhausted!

I’m not quite done with the costume so all I can show you at the moment (above photo) is the flesh colored long-sleeved top of a very soft knit that goes beneath the bare costume so she will look like she is *neked* underneath but will still be warm enough on the night of Oct. 31st in Ohio! It is made from a vintage Kwik Sew pattern for girls tee-shirts...#307. That cute Pilgrim turkey fabric in the background is from Hancocks (Thank you, Niener!) That will hopefully become a jumper sometime before November 25th. (Somebody please remind me that it is a one-way pattern to those Pilgrims???)
I've got them upside down!! I’ll have to be careful when cutting!

I promised to show you some of the completed sewing projects that I gave you a sneak peek of last week.
Both of the little skorts below, are from the pattern "Sara's Skort" by Children's Corner.

They are lined, have elastic through the back & have attached shorts so my darling granddaughter

(6 yrs old)

can cartwheel to her

♥'s content & remain modest!

You should see her doing flips & trying to do a
one-handed cartwheel. Yikes!
I just know she’s going to be a cheerleader!

Skort shown here with a matching machine embroidered design

on the black shirt & black knee-socks.

One of those sparkley glue-on diamonds

is covering a tiny hole that I managed to make

while cutting away the stabilizer.

Thank you, Nicole, for the idea to use the Bling!!

Another version of the same skort.
Shown below with a different black long-sleeved top that has a sparkle effect which does not show up in the photo. I couldn’t decide what to embroider on this one… Its a cinch one of the dogs won’t show up! LOL

They have 2 black Schnauzers at their house, so I think she will especially love this one!


The pattern for the little Christmas package with the appliquéd bow


is from a free insert in last

month's issue of

American Patchwork & Quilting

magazine.

This is just one block to be used as a trivet

but here is what several of them would look like

made up into the entire quilt.

Cute, huh?

I don’t know if I’ll make the entire quilt before

Christmas gets here or not…

Its only 93 days away!

I made this little oven door dress , below, out of 2 tea towels.

If you google “oven door dress” there are lots of

tutorials available.

As always, after I took the photo, I saw that the cherry appliqués

weren’t laying right so I took out those few gathers in the front

and straightened it out, then sewed it back together but

never got another picture before I gave it to my sister.

Why is it we can see our mistakes so much better

when looking at a photo?

Thanks for stopping by the Gazebo House.

I’ll be back with some autumn decor & a fall tablescape real soon.

Fondly,

September is National Sewing Month

I have been sewing up a storm lately.

No time to read anything other than patterns,

so no book review this week.

No time to set a pretty table either.

Here is a sneak peak at what I've been working on

I'll save them for another day.