Be careful what you wish for!

Well, I wanted to sell aprons and I'm selling them now! Thanks to my wonderful daughter who Twittered about my Etsy shop and got me an instant sale! How's that for instant results? And then when the buyer Twittered about her purchases I got more inquiries. So, I'm pretty happy. I've been busy cutting, sewing, photographing and listing aprons. And I've done one custom order and the customer has asked me to do at least two more custom aprons!

So, if you need me I'll be sitting at my sewing machine or at JoAnn Fabrics!

Etsy mention!

Anda from Etsy purchased three Christmas stockings from my Etsy shop and she was gracious enough to mention them on Twitter! How nice was that? After the first mention I got a sale within the first half hour! Wow !

Aprons for the grandkids

I started out wanting to make new aprons for the grandkids. We've had plastic ones and fabric ones, but I though I would make something really cute and personal for each one. I saw cupcakes on a black background that I thought would be so cute, and I found other cute, food-themed fabrics but none I thought the grandson would like. There was the red chili peppers but didn't think the five year old would want it.

So that got me to thinking that I needed something else. Well, I have that huge stash of squares from the quilt so I decided to make alphabets and spell their names on plain cotton, canvas aprons.

It was easy once I got started. I ironed HeatnBond

on the backs of the fabric squares and then placed stencils on them, traced the letters and cut them out. Simple - right? Wrong

The letters were way too big! Back to tracing the letters. This time it was trial and error until I got the sizing right, but I'm pretty pleased with the way they turned out.

Now I was going to finish this off by doing a zig-zag stitch around each letter, but I think I may just leave them the way they are for right now because I'm anxious to move on to another project. And, anyway, the kids really like them the way they are.