Towel Craze

As it is with having Mother's Day, Teacher gifts, and Graduation gifts all within a few weeks, I have done quite a few towels!  Aren't these cute?! . . .

 

Thanks to Katie for taking pictures of these Williams-Sonoma kitchen towels we did for all of her daughters' teachers at school {I completely forgot to do my usual photo session at the end of the day when I finished them!} . . .

 

Katie and I just worked together to pick fun/funky fabrics for these crosses rather than thinking of what might match kitchens we'd never seen.  I love the way they turned out!

 

I've always used these Williams-Sonoma towels for my customers.  They are great towels!

 

And this makes an adorable {and practical!} $15 gift!  We also discussed doing an applique initial instead of a cross, which would also be a very cute way to go.

 

As for graduation gifts, I did quite a few beach towels . . .

{Very cute towels from Target!}

This one was actually a birthday gift for a tween . . .

 

And I also did quite a few bath towels for graduation . . .

In the midst of all of those other towels, why not throw in a few for a friend's lakehouse?! . . .

 

New font I recently aquired -- Fishtails.  Great for little boys or for joint grown up initials! {Sewing note for my sewing friends -- I did have to go over these initials twice with this font on the towels to get it full and thick looking} . . .

It has been a towel craze {and I didn't even get pictures of them all}!  Now I've got a bunch of other dresses, shirts, and baby things to get back to!

we need a little christmas now

I think I was able to come through for everyone who needed something pseudo-last-minute for Christmas. And I can honestly say, I have no outstanding orders at this time. Okay, except for two pairs of bloomers for a baby due in February. And they're not newborn size. This SWEET outfit was for a Christmas card photo . . .

And just some classic Christmasy-but-can-be-worn-year-round applique initials . . .

{Please ignore the smudge on many of the pictures in this post. A certain 2-year-old at my house likes playing with my camera!}

Kelly's Kids top and nightgown for a sweet friend {and Kelly's Kids rep} . . .

Sweet design to match some pants out of the green minky {tree} fabric . . .



A hostess gift for the hubs' work party . . .

Simple, yet so cute! I need to do one of those for myself! Some more dish towels for the sister-in-law to give as gifts {these are really cute too! I think she said she found them at Homegoods.} . . .



A sweater a friend is giving her dad as a gift. Although I fear I put the embroidery too high. I'm a little perfectionist about these things. It's really hard to do grown-up stuff because I know just where to put designs on kids' clothes, but not so much on the grown up stuff . . .

In the future, I would prefer for the subject to put on the garment and mark the appropriate place for embroidery. At least until I get the hang of it! I also used solvy interfacing on top of the sweater, which washes away, but looks a little like plastic pieces are sticking out until it is washed!

And this is for the little 4-year-old girl we pulled off of the angel tree at Evynne's school. She asked for clothes . . .

We got an Osh Kosh jogging suit that was hot pink with navy and other colored flowers on it so I made this to match. I really hope she likes it!

This is a gift for my M-I-L {aka, Snowy}. I think I stole this idea from a Mustard Seeds kids' shirt . . .

And finally, some of our friends are getting a trip for Christmas. Can you guess where to? . . .





Pillowcases for autographs {another stolen idea from another monogrammer -- so cute!} . . .

And now all we need is a little Christmas break!

new fabric and some boy shirts

I went to Hobby Lobby and Thimbles a couple of weeks ago. We all know what that means. New fabrics . . .

These are the ones I found at Hobby Lobby . . .

And these at Thimbles. The first three from the left are fabrics I bought specifically trying to match the apple monag dresses I bought for my girls. Evynne liked the one on the far left and the floral the best and to match the pink of the tights I have, I went with the far left. {However, I ADORE the floral so I think I'll buy apple shirts or dresses again in the spring so I can use it!} I'll be posting those pics soon!

And I've done a few boy things recently . . .

I really like this plaid . . .

And I thought this fringe lion I just bought from Applique for Kids turned out SO cute . . .



Let's not leave out the nephew. This is an old white shirt that my sister wants to put under a navy sweater so we just gave it a little personality :)

this & that

I think I've finished the last of the short-sleeved stuff for awhile. Here are some pictures of this and that, which I have been working on . . .











Cute idea -- A friend got these shirts for two friends who were finding out at their 5th birthday party that they were going to Disney together the next day! . . .



These last two outfits are ones that I bought for Evynne at the Hope for Gabe Sale. They were cute, but the tops were plain. I had to get creative with ways to match the bottoms since I didn't have the fabric the pants were made out of. I am really pleased with how they both turned out!





For this one, I used the hat from Planet Applique's Cowboy Alphabet, but put it on a more girly "E". This fabric was a tough one to match, but I really love the simplicty of the solid fabrics and how this turned out. Evynne loves it too, which is great!