Look Mom! I sewed!

Growing up my mom used to sew everything. She made all of our Easter dresses, halloween costumes, matching camp clothes... you name it, she could make it. (Including one ill-fated praying mantis costume for the second grade insect play!) During the summer she would give me sewing lessons and encouraged me to learn the skill but I wasn't always the most patient when it came to the precision sometimes required to make something "just right". The last few years my only sewing experience was the occasional fallen hemline or a button that needed reattaching, but I got the great idea that I needed a sewing machine so that I could be crafty, just like Mom. So thanks to Santa Claus I am the proud new owner of a Singer sewing machine with 30 built in stitches... now I just have to learn how to use it!

Here are my first few attempts. The lines aren't perfectly straight (it's that precision thing that I need to work on!) but I'm really enjoying my time being creative!

Can you tell what it is? Probably not.

It's a burp cloth! I found a website that was selling these for $15 each and I thought "I can do that!" so I found some cute fabric and went to town trying to sew straight lines.

Another variation.

After a lot of burp clothes, I found a dress that looked pretty easy to make. It's called a pillowcase dress and now I just need to find someone to wear it! What do you think?