Loads of Gift Card Holders!

Well, I couldn't get my Giga Hoop to work last night, and didn't have time to figure out why. It really wouldn't have saved me a ton of time anyway, so not that big of a loss... for now.
Today my machine was stitching more than it wasn't! (And my lips are really chapped, but only my mom will fully understand that.) I made a ton of these gift card holders. This picture doesn't do them justice, but I don't have time to take better pictures. Maybe later, unless they all sell! :)

The mitten gift card holders are basically all the same, green and white on red. The stockings have lots of variations: some traditional Christmas colors, colors for little girls and boys, and then of course colors for the Noles and Gators!
I also want to offer personalized gift card holders, so I need to take examples. I chose Tiffany and A.J., in honor of Tiffany's comments on this blog. No, this isn't a payoff, just a small token of my gratitude! I'll give them to you after Sunday's craft booth at Southwood.

When the weekend is over I'll post more details on where the design came from and how they are constructed.

My project for tonight

Once I return from church tonight, I plan to tackle more of these gift card holders. I'm going to attempt to use my GigaHoop for the first time to do 4 at once. They are super cute! More design details later!

Loads of Pacifier Clips!

Here are the pacifier clips I have made over the last few days in preparation for my two shows this weekend.

I have some plain ones, $4 each:

I have some for sports fans, $6 each:

And I can take orders for personalized pacifier clips, $8 each. Anna is being nice enough to let me display the ones she ordered for her future nieces before I mail them off!

Promotional Video

A while back I set up a YouTube account so that I could subscribe to videos (especially ones that Carlin was posting which were not available to the public). Carlin decided to make me a little video so that my YouTube page would have something on it!

He asked me to pick out pictures of twelve of my favorite projects. That was challenging. I decided on six of my favorite quilts and six embroidery projects that show the variety of things I can do. I didn't want to include pictures of other children, so that eliminated a few projects. Then he put it all together adding music, motion graphics, text, and SHINE! I think the final product is pretty neat! It reminds me of the opener to several of the quilting shows on PBS. :)

The only thing we are not sold on is the very end. We settled on "Janay's Stitches", but that's open for suggestions. I'm not very creative when it comes to wordsmith sort of stuff. I challenge you to help us come up with something better! I'd love to use either my initials (KJT) or Janay or Trammel, but I'm open to anything!

Flannel Rag Quilts for Sale

In addition to my crayon rolls and Amy's headbands, I will also be taking my flannel rag quilts to "Christmas at the Holiday Inn". Two of them have been posted previously here. The others are:
Noah's Ark Flannel Rag Quilt

Bugs Galore Flannel Rag Quilt

You can learn more about my rag quilts at my online gallery Janay's Quilts

Amy's Headbands

These are not items that I have made, but that I have available for purchase! My sister-in-law makes fantastic headbands, and today I received a shipment from her. I am taking them with me to the "Christmas at the Holiday Inn" event that I am a part of this Friday. She has made headbands for Noles, Gators and Tigers; we have patriotic and Christmas themed headbands, as well as an assortment of other colors. Let me know if you'd like to claim one or more before Friday!
Be sure to click for an enlarged picture.

Shower Gifts for Tori's Twins

Tori recently had her boy/girl twins, and today was her baby shower with the women at Timberlane CoC. Several weeks back Melissa commissioned me to make a diaper bag like my rag-style purse. She wanted girl colored fabrics on one side and boy fabrics on the other. I found a cute print and picked out a blue and pink calico that would match. I monogrammed the babies' initials on each side.


The inside features several pockets. Two are the right size for a wipes container and a small stack of diapers. I hope the two on the ends hold bottles... I don't have any laying around here to check, but Annaliese's platex cups fit!

Even if it isn't the most functional diaper bag early on, Tori will be toting stuff for her twins for several years to come!

Melissa and a few others went in together to get the bag and fill it with lots of good stuff. I decided I needed to make a few more personalize items to coordinate. I did two pacifier clips, which I posted earlier, and these two burp cloths. The applique star design came from The Embroidery Market (actually I think it was a freebie from the yahoo group). I used the same fabrics as in the diaper bag and variegated threads for the satin stitch. The text was added with Embird Alphabet #2, and I used the same thread color as their monograms on the bag.


It turned out to be a nice ensemble.

Twins Galore!

Within the same week I decided to make pacifier clips for twins that were recently born locally AND 2 friends each requested pairs of pacifier clips for expected twins. Tonight I made all 6 at the same time (the best way to do it!)

I've changed the way I do these slightly. On the first several I had the text going down the clip vertically. But Rebecca (who loves her two pacifier clips for her son) recently said his name looks funny upside down. I didn't really think about the fact that the times the pacifier isn't in the baby's mouth the name would be hanging upside down. So I decided to turn the text horizontally, which in the end looks much better. For those of you who got one of my first ones, and are reading this, I'd be delighted to make a new one for you if you'd like!

For anyone who cares how I embroidered them en masse...
I hooped tearaway stabilizer, marked vertical lines, and sprayed it with adhesive. I laid all the ribbons down and then stitched a basting stitch around the perimeter to help hold the ribbons in place. I centered each design on the appropriate ribbon and stitched away! It went pretty quickly, especially since all of them but one used the same thread color.

Happy Birthday, Madison!

Tomorrow is Madison's Fourth Birthday! We gave her this bandana dress.


The top layer is an FSU bandana, the bottom is just some nice garnet colored calico. After I cut the center out of the bandana, there was the word "SEMINOLES" left behind. I couldn't let that go to waste! I discovered that one of the rounded rectangle appliques from My Embroidery Haven's yahoo group would fit around "NOLES". I also happened to have thread that matches the gold color perfectly. I was pretty pleased.


Madison and her family are headed out of town for the weekend, so hopefully I'll get a modeled picture once they return. I'm anxious to see how well it fits and if I'll have any alterations to make.

I have 11 more of these bandanas, courtesy of Ginny Wagner, so we'll see if Madison generates special requests by wearing it around town!