from the sewing room

A few of my favorite embroidery websites were having BIG sales last week {like 80% off}, so I bought a couple Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas appliques!  Obviously it's early to be making holiday shirts, but I had a couple special ladies we wanted to give gifts to and this was the time I had to do it.

Last week I showed you the simple t-shirt and shorts set I was sending to Scarlett for her 1st birthday/end of summer celebration.  Well, I decided that a long sleeved pumpkin shirt would be the perfect addition to the gift and would transition her nicely into the rapidly approaching fall.

This shirt ended up so cute!

pumpkin applique - found here

embroidery font - found here

The ruffles around the neck are cute, but it made doing the applique tricky.  I had to avoid that area, so the pumpkins are lower down on the belly then I'd like.  It was SO hard for me to find a plain, girls' long sleeved size 18 month t-shirt this time around.  I feel like finding the blanks is the toughest part of this whole process sometimes!  Now whenever I find shirts that have a plain front and are a good price I stock up - there will always be a boy/girl at any given size in hot or cold seasons in my life.  ha!

The other shirt I made was for our friend Olivia.  She was one of Asher's BFFs in Virginia and is visiting us today so we wanted to have a little something to give her.  :-)  I decided to try a different applique and made her a Thanksgiving turkey.  This applique was more complicated and I learned a few things along the way.  I hate, hate giving gifts that aren't perfect, but Drew assured me it was nice enough.  Hopefully only I see all the mistakes!

{Olivia is Asher's age and I was easily able to find a plain tee in size 3T at the same store where I struggled to find an 18mo - go figure...}

turkey applique - found here

embroidery font - found here

Now I need to get working on Asher's first day of school shirt {he starts preschool 2 days after we return from the beach!} and on some goodies for miss bug.  So far she has nothing and that's just not acceptable.  ha ha!