Friday, January 22, 2010

Brace yourselves


I have been totally channeling Martha Stewart lately (not the criminal Martha). I whipped out my sewing machine the other day. It has pretty much been in the box since the day I bought it. The last time I sewed it was in Mrs. Tolbert's Home Ec class in the 8th grade. We sewed shirts. I was so pumped about the shirt that I made until I realized the shirt I made was almost identical to the shirts the employees at McDonalds wore. That shirt went straight to our trunk-o-costumes (along with my GOLD Homecoming dress).

At last I decided to give this whole "homemaking thing-a-ma-jig" another attempt. I am pretty delighted with myself. I made this cute pillow for the nursery. YUP....I did. YA ME!

9 comments:

Mike and Amie said...

Wow! That is so pretty! Did you use a pattern or is this an original!? Yeah you!!

Jenny said...

That is impressive. I need to quit farting around with these stupid quilts and make something useful.

Whitney said...

I also love it when I am good at everything I do even if I haven't done it since 8th grade . . . oh wait, that's never happened to me. Geez Brittni! Please tell me that you at least swore at the sewing machine a few times!

Zack Family said...

Super cute! You could sell those babies. Love it!

jamie @ [kreyv] said...

Don't lie, you still have the shirt and the gold dress. Like you would ever get rid of those. It's nothing to be ashamed of. Maybe you can sew a new outfit out of them....oh the possibilities! You sure have come a long way since you thought you could make shorts by cutting two slits up a skirt and sewing them together. I couldn't be more proud. ;)

sara said...

oh...no you did not? I love it!!!
You are Martha...love you

Natalie Service said...

Way Cute! And that shorts idea Jamie said you've got up in that head of yours sounds like a great idea! Have you tried it?

I LOVE THE PILLOW!

Jill said...

It's funny that you mention our Home Ec class. I was just telling someone yesterday that the only F I ever got was on a skirt in Home Ec. lol! Your pillow looks great! I don't think I will be making one anytime soon.

Anonymous said...

You are lying! You seriously made that pillow?!? You are a frickin GENIUS> If I even attempted that, I would probably lose a few fingers! =) GOOD JOB!!! =)