New Year, New Reasons to Sew

A new year!  2019  I have lots of reasons to sew this year.  

Loving the twirl!

1.  I signed up with a group of Project Linus in the area.
2.  I have time, if I decide to retire fully from my job at Walmart.
3.  I have a 4 year old Granddaughter who loves twirly dresses!
4.  I have a 1 year old Grandson who, well he doesn't care what he wears!  
5.  I want to start making dresses for my Etsy shop along with other little items like zipper bags, purses, grocery bags, quilts, and just about anything I can think of.  
6.  I have an amazing amount of fabric I have accumulated over the last couple of years.
7.  I have UFO's, unfinished projects I need to finish!

I have made a couple of things already this year.  A pair of pajama pants for myself, and I am working on a quilted bag to take to the Road to California in Ontario later this month.  I have to have something new, handmade and fun to carry all my purchases in!  

For Project Linus, I committed to one blanket every other month.....I want to do one a month.  Hopefully, that can be accomplished.  I did take a class at the local fabric store in Oakdale on machine quilting.  I am going to take them and try my best at longarming!  We will see if it comes out nice enough to give to a child in need.  I am hoping.  I just don't have enough room to quilt on my own machine.  A table runner is as big as I can deal with, although I did do a sleeping bag on my machine.  It was a lot to handle.  

UFO

I did purchase 4 yards of 4 different fabrics on clearance to try and make differing sizes of one dress to put on my Etsy shop.  I am hoping I can get some hits and sell some things.  Another idea that my daughter and I have is to get some Christmas things made up for next year and head for the craft shows.  You just never know what people want though.  Bowl cozy's, stockings, placemats, Christmas dresses.......the list can be daunting.  

So yes, New Year, lots of reasons to sew.  Did I mention my blog's name sake?  Kira is my Granddaughter.  She inspires me to make things, beautiful things.  I couldn't sew much when my girls were little, so now I have the best reason in the world to sew.  Kira.  

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