Annaliese's backpack

Yesterday I monogrammed Annaliese's backpack and made a little accessory. (Cole is on an owl stitching spree this week and inspired me to use a design I bought a long time ago but hadn't stitched yet. Do you have these in your stash, or do I actually have an owl that you don't??)

I stitched her three-letter monogram with Action Font from 8 Paws and a Claw.

Her elementary school's mascot is an owl and their school colors are aqua and white, so I stitched out this little softy for her to attach to her back pack. Whooty is from DigiStitches and comes in various sizes. I stitched the smallest; this picture should show it's actual size.

Now Annaliese wants a bigger one to sleep with! Maybe a "night before Kindergarten" gift, if I can get my act together.

A Project Five Years in the Making

Well, really it only took me two hours from start (idea) to finish (shirt). But the reason for this shirt has been five years in the making...

Today my daughter got her long hair cut off for the first time, and donated it to Locks of Love. I stitched this shirt for her to commemorate the event!

The applique numbers are from GG Designs' Chubby Wubby Applique Numbers. I love this sequins material -- isn't it neat?!? (Thanks to Kathy, I have it in about 15 different colors.) The Locks of Love Logo uses the font "First Grader", so I asked Kathy to digitize the text for me (I did the little heart in Love).

And now what you really care about...

BEFORE

AFTER

Gifts for Baby and Big Sis

One of Carlin's coworkers recently had a baby. The office threw a shower for her earlier, but since they were keeping the gender a surprise, I waited until after the baby was born to make a personalized gift. Now that we know she's a girl, I made matching shirts for baby Amery and big sister Leah:

The "L" and "A" are from Embroidery Boutique's Vintage Applique Alphabet. I stitched their names with my newly acquired Itty Bitty Alphabet from 8 Claws and a Paw. I LOVE this alphabet, and imagine it will become one of my standards. It's much like Tinker Toy but with a touch of whimsy.


I also stitched this burp cloth. The lovely monogram is Empire font from Embroidery Arts.

Monogrammed Shirt for Annaliese

I've had this blank shirt for months. Had intentions of doing something for Valentine's day, but ran out of time. I just discovered last week that the trim on the shirt matched one of Annaliese's skirts perfectly, so I found fabric in my stash and quickly stitched an A on it.

It's from Five Star Fonts' Hipster Applique Font.

(not) Stitched By Janay

Ok, my MIL Kathy does lots of stitching for my family that I don't post here, since they aren't "Stitched by Janay". However, I received a surprise gift from her yesterday that I just have to show off here!!

Unbeknownst to me, Kathy had gotten the details from Carlin about the logo that he designed for me. Kathy then contacted Terri of Terradon Embroidery to digitize the logo. (BTW, Terri does an excellent job -- check out the designs she has digitized of the Trammels' Labradors: Tig, Hope, Quinn, and Jed.)

Yesterday I received this bag!!


Isn't that awesome! And now I have the design file, so I can stitch it on whatever I want. Woo-hoo! THANK YOU KATHY! I don't know when I would have ever gotten around to digitizing it myself, and I'm confident it would be YEARS before I could do as good a job as Terri.
The bag is already loaded with stuff I need to take on our afternoon outing!

Monogrammed Shower Curtain

Sunshine asked me to embroider a shower curtain for her bathroom. She purchased this shower curtain from Target:

She requested the font Edwardian Script IT for the "D", which Kathy digitized for me as large as possible for my hoop. I stitched it right in the middle of the shower curtain.

I stitched this in June, but never blogged about it. If I get a picture of the final product hanging in her bathroom, I'll add it later!

I WON!

If you are a faithful blog reader, you surely know that I use alphabets from 8 Claws and a Paw on many of my projects. I submitted pictures of my items for their Project Showcase, and my name was drawn for the monthly subscription giveaway! WOO-HOO!!
I am in the process of downloading the alphabets that have been recently added to their site, and it will take me FOREVER to unzip all these delightful files. But now I will have over 200 fonts to wade through whenever I have a new project in mind. (In reality, this really is more overwhelming than helpful! HA!)
Take a look at all my options!
THANKS JULIE!!!

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While I'm at it, let me share something else...

Right after Dashiell was born, I made mini wall hangings that spell out his name as a decoration for his room.

The monkey/letter designs are from OregonPatchWorks. When I was finished, I submitted pictures for the Customer Projects Corner of their weekly Embroidery Newsletter.
My project was immediately met with great enthusiasm! Jackie of OPW asked me to write directions for how I made the individual wall hangings, with pictures showing each step. Well, I was already done with all the letters of Dashiell's name, so I created another little wall hanging to use on his door. I used the same letter d design, but I deleted the duck and added the text instead (using Embird Alphabet #2). As I stitched it out, I took pictures of each step.

I've waited all this time to post a picture of it (I wanted it to be a surprise to Kathy who also subscribes), but it was never mentioned in the weekly newsletter. I can only imagine how many amazing submissions they get each week!! However, the pdf that Carlin created for me is now available for download on the OPW Member's Only Club!

"Hanging Around Dashiell" Wall Hanging Instructions by Janay Trammel

Chair Packs for Preschool

Miss Susie had chair packs in her classroom that, hmmmmm, let's just say they had seen better days. :) She asked if I could make her a new set. I took one of her old ones as a pattern and recreated it.
The chair pack is designed to hang over the back of a small chair and have a pocket to be filled with snack mat, journals, crayons, glue... whatever supplies each child has to use at the table.



In the past Susie just had blue and red chair packs, so she had a "red table" and a "blue table". However, since each child is assigned a color for the year, we decided this time to make one of each color so it was obvious where each child was supposed to sit. Need to rearrange the seating assignments? Just switch chair packs!

Sunday night before church Susie gave Annaliese and me a sneak peek at her new classroom. Very colorful, bright and cheerful!

Gifts for Baby Kate

Today there was a baby shower at church for a mom-to-be expecting a baby girl. Michelle requested these two items as her gift:

She picked the monograms she wanted me to use, but let me pick the colors. We make a nice team. :) For the burp cloth I used Five Star Font's Scrappy Applique for the monogram, and "kate" is stitched using FSF's stacking alphabet from Diploma~Graduation Monogram. I had fun picking fabrics from my stash to match this ribbon. (Quick side bar, I've mentioned that I have a hard time photographing reds, well, I've decided I need a new camera. These colors match better in person.)

We used the same color scheme for the bib, but a different monogram. This one is the Flower Power monogram from Julia's Needle Design, with Embird Alphabet #38 stacked on top.

This is the gift set I took to the shower:

The "K" is from Embroidery Boutique's Fun Applique Alphabet, and "kate" is stitched with 8 Claws and a Paw's Jester Alphabet.