Christmas Pillowcases

This year I made each of the kids a special Christmas pillowcase to go along with a little poem I wrote. It was a fun gift for them to open on Christmas Eve. They were so excited to put their new pillowcases on their pillows!

I chose a different print of fabric for each of them...just trying to match up personalities with fabric.

Taylor's...

Rachel's...
Brooklynn's... and Matthew's...

Then, with each one I added a decorative strip of ribbon...and used my machine's alphabet stitches to sew their names onto the pillowcase. I think they were most excited to see that their pillowcase had their name on it. For the girls, I was a bit more fancy and added little ribbon bows and rosettes. Here is the little poem I wrote to go along with their pillowcases. I thought it would make them more excited for Santa to come...is that possible?

I've actually made some of these in the past as Christmas gifts for some of my nieces and nephews. They are really fun to make...like I said it's fun to try and match up fabric prints with personalities.

Christmas Kitchen Towels

I tried to think of something really cute and creative to make for my visiting teaching sisters this year...but really couldn't come up with anything. So, I just did a couple of these little kitchen towels. I've made them in the past for little gifts and they are very easy, and really fun.

I just buy plain white kitchen towels...and then look through my Christmas fabric scaps until I find what I'm looking for.

Sew the fabric strips onto the towel...adding embroidery stitches with my machine, and ribbon bows, etc. to make them cute.
There ya go, a super easy little Christmas craft!

Pants for Brooklynn

I seem to go through "hobby phases" where I'll spend a lot of time doing one of my hobbies...and then get tired of it and switch to something else for a while. I'm not sure what that says about me. Anyway, right now must be a sewing phase because I've been doing a lot of that lately.

These are some jeans I made for Brooklynn. I sort of used a pattern to start out with...and then just bagged the whole pattern thing and did my own design. They look so cute on her. She's in preschool, and so I wanted her to have some fast, pull-on pants that were loose-fitting so she would be comfortable while playing at school. These have worked out so well that I'm going to make some more.

I added some fun accenting fabric to the bottom for cuffs.

And for the side pockets, I added some ribbon to coordinate with the green cuffs, and then used the embroidery function on my machine to add some flowery leaf designs around the edges.