Repurposing clothing

I saw a pin on pinterest that talked about doing this type of skirt from fabric.  I wanted to make one because we always have blue jeans that are able to be transformed.  But I also had a brown skirt that I liked very much but the waist was messed up and was too difficult for my knowledge of sewing to fix.  So I put them together!  My blue jeans were a little difficult because the reason I wasn't wearing them anymore was because they had a hole in the rear.  So I had to be careful in cutting the top off of them so that the hole didn't transfer over to the skirt!  It worked out so well that I started thinking about the girls' clothing.

We almost always have blue jeans that are too short but still fit around the waist.  We also almost always have a dress that the girls REALLY want to keep wearing even though they are way too short!  Typically they keep wearing the dress only with pants on underneath, like a long shirt.  But since I had this new super easy way of repurposing them we tried it out!  I told both of the girls to pick out a dress that didn't fit right and bring it to me.  Each skirt probably took 30-40 minutes.  Darby's took longer because after I cut the skirt off of the dress I had to regather the fabric.  Darby is crazy about hers!  Bryse said she didn't care for hers but since it was so comfortable she would keep wearing it. ; )  She wore it two days in a row and then was sad when I insisted on washing it.

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Well, obviously, I have not been keeping up with this blog!  To be fair I am pregnant for the third time since I last posted.  So, there's my excuse. ; )  But, the sweet hubby is deploying in a few weeks and since I pregnant again I am taking a true break and will not be making any new mei tais until Daddy and this new baby are back in my arms.  For a list of the mei tais I have in stock go to http://coffmanfamily.weebly.com/milestone-mei-tai.html
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I finished this one up recently, but never posted a picture. Forgot to! So here is a picture of my recent one. There is a list of pictures of all the mei tais I have in stock on this page: http://coffmanfamily.weebly.com/milestone-mei-tai.html
And this poka-dot one is about to be added to that list. Someone ordered it, but still haven't paid for it or anything. So I'm about to give up on that and let someone else buy it! Poka-dots are popular anyway.

Amping up the mei tai inventory

We got a boxer puppy recently. Jack, he's five months old now, and we took him to puppy kindergarten classes, but I'm wanting to get him "further education"! : ) So I'm going to start trying to sell mei tais more actively in the next couple months so that we can afford that! So yesterday I finished two more mei tais from some extra fabric I've been meaning to use. I hope to finish two more by Monday.

The one below does not have a pocket as I didn't have enough fabric to make one that would coodinate. So it will be sold for less.

For pictures of all the mei tais I have in inventory visit: http://coffmanfamily.weebly.com/milestone-mei-tai.html

Other things I've been sewing...

Skirts! Or trying to anyway. I have a nice freind that asked me to make her a long skirt a couple months ago. So I made two, because the first of my creations are always rough! These are pictures of the first one I made.

And then for Christmas I wanted to make the girls bubble skirts from some cute fabric I got at a good price. And i ended up making Cal a tie to match! : ) So fun! Not flawless, but still cute!

Happy Babies Part five

Here is sweet baby Chosen cuddled up to her mommy's back! Her daddy owns a barber shop and often cuts hair with Chosen on his back!! I'm still bugging them for a picture of that! : )
And here is Cal and I from yesterday. We took the kids bowling for lots of fun and a tired mommy and daddy! You can see the wet spot where Cal was chewing on the strap, lovely.

The latest and other stuff...

This is my new sewing nuke in our new home in Georgia! It's in the playroom too, which is technically a formal dining room. But we decided that with young children a formal dining room that is carpeted is a joke! It's nice to have a good space for my sewing though. Usually the kids are playing behind me or napping when I'm sewing. I'm using a dining room chair for now, but we intend to buy me a sewing chair to keep at my desk eventually.

Here is my inventory as of November 6th. I have four and for the first time, most of them are girly colors!

This is one of the mei tai's I did this week. It's up for grabs.

And this is one that was ordered that I will be shipping soon. Everyone seems to love the poka dots!