Pillowcase.....SHIRT!

Here is another sewing project for my little girl.  Like I have said before, a friend of mine runs a business out of her home making pillowcase dresses.  Well, I don't think she sells these shirts, but herself and her daughter have a couple of these and they are so cute!  This is the same pattern for a normal pillowcase dress but at the bottom, instead of just a normal hem, it has elastic in it so that it hugs the waist area and becomes a shirt instead of a dress.  Cute, huh?  Another friend of mine does the hem at the bottom identical to the top and puts another ribbon in the bottom hem and then ties it and it becomes a cute little shirt as well with an extra ribbon.  Does that make sense?  Hope so!  :)

Hope you enjoy this cute little creation and remember, it is always homemade!

Reuseable Snack Bags

I have been wanting to make some of these for a while but each tutorial I see just seems like so much for something that should be a simple project.  I use sooooo many ziplocs and I am sick of buying them!  When I saw this tutorial on Pinterest (the link is below) I knew this is the pattern I wanted to follow!  I made 4 in 20 minutes!  I plan to make a few more as well.  My little boy has seen me making several things for my daughter lately and one day I was making her a skirt and he said, "When are you going to make me something?"....how great do you think that made me feel???  So, that afternoon, I made these snack bags and he was overjoyed by "his" snack bag that mommy had made!  He was too cute.  I guess I need to get on some kind of project for him, huh? 

www.cottonbottommama.com  is the link for this tutorial and it was posted on March 29, 2012.  She has a picture by picture tutorial that is great! 

Have fun sewing today and remember, your kids will appreciate anything that is homemade....even if it is just a snack bag!