The Winners!

Here we go! Congratulations to everyone who participated in the October Stash Game. And thank you for bearing with me as I dropped the ball the last few weeks in keeping everyone motivated. I do have a good reason...but I'll post more on that soon ;) Anybody interested in doing this again, maybe next Spring?

Without further ado...

First place - Ultimate Destasher Award goes to: LisaW with a whopping 185 points!
Second place - Really GoodDestasher Award goes to : Felicia with 163 points!
Honorable third place: Carol with 150 points!

Congratulations!!!

Are everyone's point tallies correct?

If so, I'll list the winners and start emailing about prizes tomorrow. If you still have any pics to get up, you have until tomorrow. Great sewing everybody!

October is over!

Wow...that month flew by for me! Please make sure your pics up and tally list competed by midnight Sunday, November 7th. Thank you for playing the stash game!

Final costumes

The finished Bumble Bee

Darth Vader.....the mask and light saber were bought but the rest was homemade. I made the cape but his dad did the rest.

Hoping these count!

I am hoping these count since I'm posting them today. They were stuck in my camera with the dead battery. and I thought i plugged the battery in last night but I didn't. I'm blaming it on too much candy.

I made this felted wool beret for Augie and I embroidered a little felt heart on the top. I did something wrong though because it is way to small. It pops off of her head.

Have to love brown eyed girls...My kids sadly inherited brown eyes from me.

Another felted sweater project. I made a bunch of these coffee cup wraps for a friend of mine. She has Crohn's and was doing a fundraiser. I sent her ten of these to use in gift bags. I kept this one though. It was the first one and it was a bit wonky.

Another hat...there were actually 2 that I sent to CO to my mom for one of her friend's daughters. They have always been so sweet to me and my kids when we visit and I wanted to make something for their girls. My mom had sent me a pic of one of the girls wearing one but I can't find it now in my phone.

My dress for the swap. Not gonna lie...it was hard to send it off even though it won't fit August! I really love the way it turned out. I made a matching hat. It might be a little too matchy matchy but I couldn't help myself :)

And my last project of the month. Yesterday I made August an almost matching sweatshirt to the one I made myself. I put it on her this morning and she looks so cozy. I really love modifying the Sienna pattern.

Phew! What a month! My stash is really still out of control. We may have to do another month :)

Forgot -

This dress: My Stash game dress...

The Last Minute Post...

So a while back on the 18th of October, I made these two dresses for Maya. One sports the kanji of her middle name (Ai = love), and the other is made from a formerly boxy school spirit shirt, and some awesome owl fabric from JoAnn's. (Which is very fitting since the school's mascot is "Oakie" the Owl.)

Around that same time I was lucky enough to be chosen by the fates/karma/good luck to be the new mama of Serena (by Apple Treehouse). Maya immediately wanted to make a new outfit for her. I let her pick through the LBB scrap pile and she came up with this number:

Too Cute!

Then I started working on my swap dress.

Unfortunately, I had a few issues. The shirt

that was JUST perfect was a little too small to

work with a sz 5 Sienna, so I pieced the main design together with some coordinating fabric to widen it for the dress. Then after I had the rest of the dress cut (more of the coordinating, and some of this absolutely lovely plaid that I can't wait to a

dd to more dresses), I realized that I had never really worked with a hood let alone combined patterns before... Sooooo with that knowledge in mind, I put the swap dress on hold until I could practice adding a hood to the Sienna dress pattern. Sooo with the help of the fabulous directions directions Ashley provides and the combining patterns tutorial I made a hooded I heart NY dress. I unfortunately appear to have never actually posted a photo of this (will look on my other computer tomorrow). It was a really cute dress - worst case I'll see if I can get my cousin to send me a pic of it...

Anyway, I got a little side tracked and went

ahead with another asymmetrical dress with Stephanie Corfee's Astrid Garden fabric off of Spoonflower. I

LOVE this dress. This is probably my favourite out of everything I've sewn since I started following LBB and using the LBB patterns! Maya loved this dress too. She asked me to make Serena one as well...

Using the basic LBB doll dress pattern, I lengthened the sleeve, and surprisingly it worked to make a long sleeve for the doll. I didn't actually have Serena on hand to test out the dress pattern until after I had already sewn the dress. Maya and I were only too happy to find that it

worked!

Next it was back to the dress swap dress. I figured I had lallygagged enough! So now that I had the hood down, I cut my sleeve and hood fabric (and hood trimming), and started piecing the dress together. I love the way this dress came out! I can't wait to see photos posted of the swap dress being worn by its proud new owner! (And Maya rightfully points out that I've given away all the hoodie dresses I've made this month, so she says the next one I make is hers).

By now I was in sewing crunch time because I also needed to get Maya's Halloween costume out the door. I had never worked with a more regular sleeve pattern before (I'd mostly just sewn the raglan style used in the Sienna as opposed to the more regular sleeve used in the hoodie pattern), however when I looked at pictures of Maya's chosen character, they were pretty clear as to the style of sleeve... again, luckily for me I was working off of the LBB hoodie pattern and I had plenty of great photos and clear instructions to follow. And the hoodie pattern combined with the Sienna method of lengthening became Daphne from Scooby Doo!