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Busy Sewing Weekend

10/7/2012

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This weekend I did quite a bit of sewing and I got some of the house cleaned up, laundry done and worked on my wedding invitations.  I wouldn't say I'm all caught up on everything but I certainly feel MUCH better now!  First, I finished stitching the quilt top for Alpha Phi Red Dress Gala.  Then I loaded it onto the quilt top and did all the quilting.  And guess what?  Not a single thread breakage from my quilting machine!  I'm really happy about it but also still concerned that I never found out the root cause of the problem.  I'm sure it will wait to break until I've got a big deadline coming up, LOL.
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Then today (Sunday) I mostly worked on making shirts with my embroidery machine for Halloween :)
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I showed you this one already but I decided to add Greyson's name to it so the design would look a little more centered, heehee aren't I tricky?  I need to get some more embroidery thread and maybe adjust the tension a little bit because the finishing on the letters in his name isn't quite as good as I'd like it to be.
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Next I made a ghost shirt for Greyson.  Hopefully it gets cool enough for turtlenecks because, oddly, the only black onesies and shirts I could find were these turtlenecks. No real problems with the stitching here but the letters are a little close to the ghost.
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Here's a spiderweb shirt for Addi...isn't it ADORABLE??
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Here's Addi's ghost shirt.  Unfortunately, while I was clipping the excess fabric, the shirt popped off the hoop and I tried to re-hoop it in the exact same spot but I guess I missed.  You can see the entire white outline of the ghost is offset slightly higher than the white fabric, boo (not the halloween kind)!
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Here's Aubrey's shirt with her name on it.  No real issues with this one.  but when I bought it, the shirt had a little pocket on it with a teddy bear, LOL, so I used my handy dandy seam ripper to take the pocket off.
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Aubrey's ghost shirt came out pretty cute too.  Ghoul's rule!
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Emma's spiderweb shirt is just like Addi's - I loved this design so much that I just couldn't resist!
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Unfortunately, I had some issues with Emma's ghost shirt.  It's not too bad but the machine sucked in part of the fabric when I tried to start stitching words above the ghost and couldn't get it quite fixed.  So there is a tiny bit of white thread and a little hole on the top left of the ghost :(
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Here's Ethan's name shirt - he got a creepy "E" with an eyeball
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Here's a frankenstein shirt for Ethan as well - LOVE this one :)
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And lastly, I actually made something for myself.  Shocking huh?
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Did I mention that I LOVE my new embroidery machine?  I might be a little obsessed, haha!
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G
10/7/2012 01:40:07 pm

OMG! Ashley! These are amazing! A. M. A. Z. I. N. G.

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