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This post is just to show an example of a name applique.


FYI the eye and mouth were fabric paint, not embroidery ;)

OK so I clearly don't know what "be back tomorrow" means....

In the last (and only) post here, I said "maybe I will be back tomorrow to post some more pics." Yeah, I need to try and do better, eh?

Well, at least I have been doing some sewing, just not any showing and telling here. So take a look at some recent projects....

here is a set of Texas A&M pajamas for both of my nephews - both my sister-in-law and her husband graduated from there, so these boys have no choice but to be huge Aggie fans! (oh yeah, my father-in-law is an alum as well)














Here are some grocery/tote bags for the same sister-in-law - lots of fun fabric choices! (oh yeah, I've got to get working on some of these bags promised to my mother-in-law!)
Here are some shirts for my boys - Oldest specifically requested a "macaroni penguin" b/c he saw it on Diego.




















Hmm....looks like I have only been sewing for family....

Here is a little John Deere baby ball I did for a church baby shower a month or so ago...














Oh and I just have to show you a blanket or two, b/c those are what started me on this Etsy journey!

A butterfly for a neighbor:














and then when another neighbor/cousin saw the butterfly, she asked me if I could create a monkey blanket, so I did (after a couple of months, sorry C). Don't know why it took me so long to come up with this design, but anyway....




















Guess I'll close for now - gotta go work on a gift for a 6-yr-old birthday girl (no relation! ha!)

New Year, New Blog....

OK, so 2009 is not exactly "new" anymore, but this is a new blog, and all my creativity is going to my projects instead of blog titles, so let's just get to the fun stuff....

I've been thinking about starting a blog for a while now, since it just seems like the thing to do in my circle these days. But, since this page has "Bug's Hugs" as the title, I think for now, I am probably just going to concentrate on posting things about my sewing adventures, rather than try to keep up with all the family happenings, although I may throw a few of those in just to write it down somewhere....maybe I can keep up with a blog better than a random piece of paper I was supposed to stick in that blank baby book.... Back to Bug's Hugs, though. I won't lie, I will flat out admit that I hope this blog will drive more internet traffic to my Etsy site, but at the same time, maybe it will also motivate me to keep coming up with more ideas, different types of things to sew, so I can have more to share (and sell on Etsy).

Let's see, I guess I will start with the same 2 projects I just posted on facebook this week, so all of my facebook friends will complain that they have already seen these pics.

My most recent project was a little apron dress for a friend's daughter. This friend called me up one morning and asked me out of the blue if I could make an apron dress. I hardly ever turn down a challenge, so of course I said yes! After we narrowed down what it was really going to look like (I really like these knots used for the shoulder straps, but I must admit we saw it elsewhere- I didn't come up with that myself) and she even brought me the Michael Miller fabric she wanted me to use, I sat down one Saturday afternoon a couple of weeks ago and knocked it out almost completely in one (long) sitting. I didn't have a pattern to go by other than pieces of some vintage patterns my mother had lying around the house when she used to make my dresses. So, after I drew out my pattern, I cut right into that pretty fabric. Once I got started, I just kept going. I got to the point where I needed to try it on her to see if it was going to work, so I just stopped for the evening. Well, for various reasons, the project went to the back burner, so to speak, but I finally finished it Tuesday night.

There's even a cute little birdie applique on the apron!

Well, I am tired of waiting for pics to upload (my browser has crashed on me a couple of times already - don't know why Firefox is doing that lately) and I need to close this anyway, as I need to get ready to go to girls' night out and I'm hearing requests from the peanut gallery for yet another showing of the illustrious Thomas the Tank Engine. Maybe I'll be back tomorrow to show you pics of that butterfly baby blanket I made last week, and then after that, I should get busy and actually sew something again so you can see something current!