Flannel

"Oh, Brother" - the words of my boyfriend when I told him I got a sewing machine for Christmas.

...Get it? (Brother is the brand) Haha. Anyway, I love my new machine! It's a simple one which is perfect for me. Since I was home on Christmas break, I thought I would make some pajama pants (with the help of my mom of course). I got to use her nice sewing room and all her goods. :) We started with a pattern that was only 2 parts - each leg was one piece of fabric that you sew together at the crotch. But, me being me, I wanted pockets! So my mom really helped me on that part. We ended up taking the pocket pattern from a pair of scrubs and cutting our original pattern in half (so there were 2 pieces of fabric per leg = 4 total) . 

After some math, pinning, sewing, ironing, more pinning and sewing, and elastic I was done.

And I decided to make a matching pair (pockets and all) for my oh-so-loving boyfriend. :)

Patterns

This past weekend was wonderful. My mom came in to spend some time with me and do a little Christmas shopping. We spent the most time in Hobby Lobby (of course) wandering around getting idea after idea. I get my creativity from her. Although she loves fabric and sewing and I love paper and painting, we meet in the somewhere in the middle. Together we will think of some spiffy stuff.  :)

Anyway, I got to work on a project I have been putting off. I had bought some cardboard letters that spell "HOGS" a while back at HobLob but I never did anything to them. They were meant for a wreath, but they were too heavy to glue to decomesh. So they sat in my Papasun chair for a while. I finally thought of another idea and finally found the time to work on it.

First, I painted the letters white. Then I picked a print for each one. The H is chevron, O is houndstooth, G is argyle-ish, and the S is just vertical stripes. As I do on canvases, I drew everything out with a pencil. Once I stenciled every pattern on I went to town with a thin black paint pen. Now, the patterns were super easy - except for houndstooth. I looked up the pattern online, and imagined the process in my head. I'm not going to lie, it took me about 3 hours and a lot of double-checking. But once I figured it out and got the hang of it it was pretty easy. I will put a tutorial up later. After the patterns, I colored the sides of the letters black. Once they were done, I painted my canvas in a Razorback red and painted the edges black as well. Then I stuck the letters to the canvas!

 

This one was super fun to make!