Holiday Treasuries on ETSY

I do feel honoured that people find my items worthy enough to be featured in an ETSY treasury.  Here are several more that have been curated by some very nice people!  There seems to be another theme here and that's called "spot the fabric".  I can actually tell now who uses the same fabric as I do.  Cool huh?

This one is called Red & White Stripes... Click here to view more information

This one is called Kandy Kane Kaos.  Click here to view more information

 

This one is called White and Grey Christmas.  Click here to view more information

This one is called Handmade for Good Little Boys and Girls.  Click here to view more information

This one is called Candy Cane Kisses.  Click here

Have a nice day!!

Sew, Mama, Sew! Contest Winner

Thank you all for entering the Sew Mama Sew Giveaway!  I was really happy to see so many responses and I loved reading each of the comments.

Using the Random org number generator, the winner is:

# 61 Brooke Crook.   She said "I plan to use this for my little boy and his toys!"   Congratulations Brooke, I've sent you an email.

Again, thank you to all who entered and for your comments.  I'm sorry I can't give one away to each of you.

If you would like to give this as a gift to yourself or to a little one, I am offering Sew, Mama, Sew! readers a coupon code that will provide you with 15% off on any toy leash in my Josh & Teo ETSY shop.  Just make sure that you enter the code SEWMAMASEW15 before you check out of my shop to receive the discount.  This code will be valid until December 23, 2011.

Have a great day!

Jenny

p.s.  I will be participating in the Spring 2012 SMS Giveaway so be sure to check back!

Tutorial: Easy Christmas Stocking

Today we are going to make personalized stockings!

Skill Level: Easy
Items Needed:  Stocking, Felt, Scissors, Needle, Coordinating Thread, Glue Stick

Average Time: 10 minutes

Monkey is interested in all things Christmas.  Last year, he was just beginning to understand but this year, he’s actually asking us questions.  When we first told him about the stockings, he ran to his room and started putting little toys in his socks.  He’s the best!  So I figured, it’s time to go get some Christmas stockings.  With not a lot of time left before Christmas, I decided not to make one from scratch.   They are probably the easiest thing in the world to sew but I have an even easier way to personalize our Christmas stockings.

I went to the Dollarama and got these.  Most people know that I love to DIY most of my projects.  But sometimes, it’s not necessary to DIY the whole thing.   These stockings are cute enough for the kids – probably could be sturdier – but totally do-able.

Choose stockings that have the fold over top.

Buy a sheet of inexpensive felt from Michaels or another craft store.  Felt is great because it doesn’t fray.  Jersey is also a great choice but anything else will most likely fray and won’t look good over the long run.

You can free-hand draw your initials onto the felt but I like to sample some of the newer fonts and designs that are available for free on the internet.  Open up a word processing program and choose a large font size (150-200) and your font.  I used a font called “Ravie” for our stockings.  To save on ink, in font properties, click on “outline” so that you only print the outline.    

Cut out your initial and trace it onto the felt.  I like to turn the initial around so that my pen marks don’t show on the final product.

Glue the initial onto your stocking.

Hand stitch the initial to the stocking

Voila!  You are done!  

There's still time to enter Sew Mama Sew's Giveaway!  Click here for my contribution or click on the link below to see some other great stuff!