Sewing

One thing that I have wanted to do for awhile is to learn to sew.  In fact last Christmas (2009) I asked Ryan to get me a starter sewing machine as a present, which he did.  Unfortunately the machine sat in the box until November of this year almost a year later.  In my defense, we did have a quite an unusual year with Ryan starting a new job, living apart for 6 months, and then moving, but none-the-less I never took any time to look for lessons.  When we moved to Birmingham, I knew I wanted to make that a priority and I did.  After searching numerous sewing stores, I found a lady who teaches private lesson for a reasonable price.  In November I took my first set of 3 lessons.  Since I knew nothing about sewing, we had to start from the beginning and then I sewed my first pair of ruffled pants for Bailey.  The feeling of making something for my girls to wear that was reasonably priced and cute was so exciting for me.  I enjoyed it even more than I thought I would.  My teacher helped me cut out the pattern for Emma Catherine's pants and then I sewed hers all by myself at home.  I definitely had a few frustrating moments of not remembering a few of the steps, but after a couple of calls to my  mom, I completed her pants.  They are not perfect by any means, and I still have a ton to learn but they are wearable and I made them.  The pants look like this:

My mom is going to applique a shirt for them to wear with the pants and they will be ready to go.  I hope to continue sewing and I am definitely going to take more lessons and I hope to post new projects along the way.

As a side note, I am going to try to post more this year about our day to day life.  I have tended to get behind and then just post on the bigger events that we have had going on, but honestly, I want this blog to reflect our day to day life also.  We'll see how it goes, but I am going to try.