BOYS.... well booties for one for Jessica's Give Uh Way...

Finally! I got back into my little hole and was able to sew one pair of BOY booties... the other 4 pairs planned are all cut out, assembled from 6 pinned pieces per shoe into their three finished pieces per shoe they just now all need to be sewn together. No biggie, right? Well, I am behind on my packing up Christmas, Paige is not starting an intense speech therapy program. Claire is really crawling now. Craig is due to go to the field and Reese started basketball back up. Late night sewing for me. This first pair of BOYISH booties is for Jessica's "Give Uh Way". I will be featured in her 12 weeks of "Give Uh Ways" in February. Until then check her site out weekly for the other amazing vendors along with her great sense of humor. Katrina and I are planning to do some sort of Give Away soon too.

I honestly think the is my best pair yet.

My little Claire modeling

These are so cozy. I really need to try to make adult sizes.

Booties to "Give Uh Way"

My sewing machine was running tonight after a days rest, hopefully I can keep it going for the next few days, I have some catching up to do. You might recognize the polka dot fabric from the girls runner I made for their dresser the other night, well I had actually cut these booties out a few weeks ago but they have just been sitting on my table neglected. I cut two pairs out, one for Claire of course and one for an option

for a fellow blogger's "Give Uh Ways". Go see Jessica at http://www.thelowefamilynews.blogspot.com/

she has been giving away some amazing things. Plus she is pretty darn funny and her family is super cute. I plan on making a boy option for her winner to choose from.

the fabric beginnings into the 12 pieces per pair that will be all sewn together to make the following...

Claire is modeling her pair, for what ever reason I made a minor mistake on hers though you can't see it. I think I was just sewing and not thinking, I do that with a lot of things.

Don't you just love her yummy chubby thighs??

The "Give Uh Way" pair for Jessica.

What do you think???

My Christmas gift turns into more leg warmers for Claire

My sweet husband bought me 6 pairs of socks for Christmas. Don't pick up on any sarcasms there, I LOVE socks and was in need of more dress socks (regular length ones). I have plenty of thin socks, atheletic socks, TONS of warm and fuzzy socks so just plain trousers socks is what I wanted. I am 5 foot tall and most knee highs are too long for my short little legs. My husband knowing I have been on the hunt for some cute knee highs bought me some by mistake. They were six GREAT pairs, and I actually asked him, "did you buy these for me or for me to make into more leg warmers for Claire?" his response was "You, you asked for more dress socks", not wanting to hurt his feelings, I responded "yes, and these are wonderful", but he saw my brain working and told me to do what ever I wanted with them. I looked at them all day and decided only to sacrifice one pair, these purple and green striped ones because Claire has a set of onesies that would look adorable with them.

the beginnings

the cute end result

she is getting much stronger and on the verge of MOVING....

Sister, Paige stealing some shots.

Christmas day and Miss Claire and her chubby thighs.

Just a quick post to show Miss Claire in her second pair of cuff leg warmers..

she loves her new stacking toy

These leg warmers are great now that she is rolling and about to crawl. I wish I had attempted to make them for the big girls when they were little, would have saved some red and raw little knees.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Lovely leg warmers part 2

I picked up three pairs of knee high socks today at Target for 6.99 and I immediately snuck into my sewing room (laundry room) to get started.

I love these socks. The pink striped one I have cut up to make the cuff.

getting ready to pin the cuff inside the sock to sew

the finished projects and the only remains of the knee highs

my chubba lub wearing the first pair

sleeping, on Christmas eve waiting for Grandma and Papa to arrive.

Warming up those baby thighs...

I am so excited to try to make some leg warmers for my darling daughter, she has such yummy chunky thighs that I can't wait to warm up them up some cute leg warmers. I have seen these on many different sites and a friend back in NC also makes them. I am going to give it a try.

I wanted to start off with some super cheap, plain socks. These plain brown knee highs from Walmart cost $2.oo and well, they turned out too darn cute. It didn't take any time at all, more time to thread a new bobbin than to actually sew them. I love them and so does she. I can't wait to find some great socks to make more. With this pair I just ruffled the raw cut edge of the sock.

Baby booties - 2nd go round

I am in love with this pair of booties, I made these for my darling daughter to wear to my husbands Christmas party and they turned out even better than expected. They turned out so well, my two older daughters want me to make some for them. GOODNESS.

Baby Booties...

Ok, so here is my second attempt at making baby booties. When we lived in VA last year I tried to make some and I just didn't like the way they turned out, so I modified the pattern a bit and now they are working out just great. I feel more inspired to make more because I have baby that will need them so here is my first pair.