{~*~Needing Prayers~*~}

Link to: {Needing Prayers & Me Too!!} I seen the following link: {Does God Answer Our Prayers}, while making this blog entry. {God Bless} & Thank You for All the Prayers !!! Don't Worry, Just Pray!!!

{~Uses for Shoulder Pads~}

I usually take the shoulder pads out of my clothing. Here are some ideas of use for them.

Make cat toys, sew on curve, leave a enough opening to add catnip at the tail end and add a tail and sew up. Add ears, eyes, nose and whiskers. Add to inside or outside of pants and use as knee pads, Add lace for hair accessory, make a bra, link to bra tutorial & other projects at:{One Pretty Thing}, make a child purse, doll head, pin cushion, add zipper and make a coin purse, make fin-

ger puppets, eye mask, tree ornaments, doll bonnet, brooch, add as ears to a costume, sew around, leave opening big enough to fill with beans or rice and make a toss toy, or stuff with fiber fill and make a ball or make a {Kippah} if you had enough of them collected & fold and sew to children's clothing to make pockets. Supplies needed: scissors, thread. Embelishments & other supplies needed, depending on project, are: ribbon, lace, buttons, hooks, snaps, velcro, zipper, beads, embroidery floss, hair clasp, fabric beans or rice. How about making finger puppets and adding them to a shoe box blessing for a child and give to: {Samaritans Purse}

Doll Pattern

This pattern is a result that came from two drawings my sweet granddaughter drew on a magna doodle pad. I drew it on paper and folded it to make each side more even. I used glue stick to add the hands to the arms. Click photos if you'd like to get a closer look.

Glued Pattern

I glued the legs to the body and decided that the legs were to close together for me to sew.

Leg Pattern Pieces

Here I made separate pattern pieces for the legs. I pinned all pieces to the material and cut it out about a 1/2 inch from the edge of pattern.

Sewn Body

I sewn the body twice around and left the botton all the way open for easy stuffing and adding the legs later. I did some clipping and trimming around the body too.

Cutting arms

I found out after turning the body right side out that the arms were puckering so I turned it inside out again and cut the arms off. I reinforced the bottom of the arms by machine stitching them where the seams were on each side after I had to cut them away from the body.

Adding Arms

I turned the arms rightside out and stuffed them with Polyester Fiberfill and attached them to the body, using the sewing machine.

Doll Body

This is the finished body. I need to do some more shifting with the fiberfill to get the body smoothed out. I will be adding facial features with embroidery thread & hair or a hat maybe both on another day. One more photo below of the lace I will use when making the dress.

Lace for Doll Dress

This is the lace I will use to make dress. I am going to use blue material to make a puffy sleeve dress. The lace will be added in layers over the blue dress. I will add photos to the finished doll at a later date.

{~*~Sparrow Post~*~}

While looking up the meaning of a Sparrow Post I found the following article at: {A Life Well Lived by Laurie McGill}. Some- time tomorrow I will make a blog entry about how I spent the day celebrating {Tasha Tudor Day}.

{~*~Prayers for My Son~*~}

Please say a Prayer for My Son Bryan Today!!!

Revelation 7:17 For the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd; he will lead them to springs of living water. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."

James 1:3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

God Bless You in Jesus Name!!! Thank You So Much for Praying!!!

{~*~Pillowcase Pants~*~}

Here is the the capris made out of a pillowcase and here is close up of the {Pocket }. The pant legs are the same length even though it doesn't look like it in the photo. I had used another pair of pants to make a pattern. {Paper Dolls}& Beads

{~*~Missing You Already~*~}

Oatmeal and Raisins, Airport on time, Hugs and Kisses, till next time, Saturday in Sweden.

{~*~ Pillowcase Pocket~*~}

In this photo is a pillowcase pants pocket. I took two pieces of left over material from mak- ing the sleevless part of a dress to make a pocket for the pants. I sewn two pieces together, the wrong sides facing each other and left an opening enough to turn right side out. I machine stitched around it and blanket stitched the pocket to the pants by hand. The pants turned out to be more like capri pants. Here is a link to matching dress at: {60's Mod Pillowcase Dress}

{~*~[Prayers Needed]~*~}

{{{Please Pray 4}}}

and the other people

on my lists, please!

God Bless and Thank

You So Much for all

the Prayers!!!

{~*~{~I Won! I Won!~}~*~}

{I Won! I Won!} I won Elsa Mora's orginal art piece pen- dent! The one whom recieved it, lit up when I gave it to her. It came at just the right time when she needed a lift! {Thanks So Much Elsita }!!

{~60's Mod Pillowcase Dress~}

I ran out of the smaller ribbon so I think I might sew buttons around the bottom ribbon. The buttons are yellow and not white like they are showing up in the photo. I also think this could be a top for a teen or an adult.

My first: {Pillowcase Dress}

The next pillowcase dress I try will be one with embroidery on it. I also want to try and make bloomers, or pedal pushers and a revers-

ible pillowcase dress.

{Check out Creative Kismet's Curtains for Her Craft Room} Lovely!!

{~*~(Paper Mc Dolly's)~*~}

These little animals, people and creatures. that I cut out, came from a Happy Meal pa- per bag and glued them to cardstock. Make stands by cutting a little notch between the legs of the paper dolls a little bit and cut between the middle of a stand you can cut out in the shape of a half circle and cut the bottom of the stand down to fit so the paper dolls could stand up on their own. You can also glue the backs of them to popsicle sticks and make puppets out of them if you'd like or just leave them as they are pictured here. Check out {One Pretty Thing} to learn how to make lots of fun things & check out {Paper University} for a tutorial on how to make other shapes with paper for making {Recycled Paper Beads} Check out Kelli Nina Perkins recycled paper beads at: {Bead Crazy} and check out her blog at: {Common Life into Art}

{~Tasha Tudor Day~}

Come Celebrate Tasha Tudor Day on her birthday August 28. Check out Storybook Woods blog for details at: {Tasha Tudor Day}!!

I found out about it through,

{One Pretty Thing}

Tasha Tudor Family Website links:

{Tasha Tudor Books}

{Books of Interest}