3 little Miracles

3 little Miracles

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

No Sew Valentine Shirt for Rachel

Sadly I will have to admit, that although I own a beautiful sewing machine, I am afraid of it and have yet to use it even once in the 4 years I have owned it.  What I really need is someone to teach me how to use it, because although I have looked at my directions, I still can't figure out how to even prepare a bobbin.  I do know how to sew and use a machine, I used to use my mother's Singer machine all of the time.  But mom's machine is older and much more user friendly, but it met with a large project and my mother burnt out the moter and hasn't gotten it fixed.  (Of course part of my problem with using my machine besides not knowing how to use it, is also the fact that I have no where to set up without kiddo's getting all up in my sewing business.)

So when I was looking for a cute shirt that fit Rachel NOW to do our Valentine shoot the other day, I didn't have one to fit her.  I have an adorable red shirt with a pink owl, with heart button eyes that says, "I only have eyes for you" that I had planned to use.  Unfortunately, even though Rachel is almost 4 months old and the shirt is a 3-6 month, it doesn't fit her and is way too big.

So instead I pulled out this red long sleeve onesie (size 0-3) that she never got to wear because she was still in NB. . . . .
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and went to Kinder Cuts on Etsy to purchase some adorable iron on applique's . . . . .




and ironed these adorable hearts over the words to create a quick and cute Valentine shirt.
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Now I will fully admit that this shirt would be so much cuter if I knew how to use my machine to embroider the edges and put Rachel's name on across the hearts, but for a quickie DIY I think it is cute.
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2 comments:

  1. i think it came out very cute!

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  2. I think it is super sweet. You need to read your manual. I had to do it with mine too and was intimidated but once I just sat down and did it I finally figured it out. I still get nervous if it does something and I don't know what causes it but I just google it haha. I think you did a great job though!

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