More Racecars

While I was with my mom, we made more car caddys!  I'm sure one day this will madness will end, because think all my preschool/toddler nephews now have one, or will after christmas.  I don't know when my mom is giving them out.  Shh, don't tell my nephews, I don't even know who these are for, hopefully my mom remembers. 

These are by far my favorite design.  I love this material, so little boy cute.  Bizarrely enough after months we could barely find anything with cars at JoAnn's, I found this material at wally world.

With some of the left over, I made my son a race-car flag.  He has been wanting one.  This child has interesting wants.  Oh the joys of a mom that sews.

Cars and Church

At christmastime my mom and I made car caddies. Thanks to a comment on my cousin's blog, we found this tutorial. We used denim and canvas so it would be sturdy. They are in nice dark boy colors.

We didn't do everything the tutorial said like we have no numbers, and we didn't do a car applique, but I did think a stop light would be fun, but it wasn't so fun, because sewing circles are never fun. But we didn't make enough car caddies, more boys loved them and wanted them.

So what were we do to but make more car caddies.  Since we were at, we made two one for my boy and one for my girl, we usually use these in church and my kids fight over it.  Usually I'm not a mom of buying two toys, but toys for church are different.  The previous ones were too fat too fat in my opinion, they did get thinner over time as it was played with and squished, but still this time I used denim and calico.

We did the elastic and button finish this time, I just barely found these closures on blogs, and so I was excited to try, so much easier than tying bows. The first set of car caddies didn't have bows, but the my crayon rolls did, and its a pain to tie, I love the hair elastic sewn in with a button so much more. Speaking of crayon rolls if I was to make another I would have a folder over flap, like the car caddies, or the dry erase cozy.

They were so much fun another nephew of mine was playing with it at church at great grandma's ward and so we now have another order.  Oh the other thing we did differently is we made the pockets for the cars bigger, we did 17x8 instead of 6. I also try to fill the caddy with cheap off brand cars, they are lighter weight and so it doesn't make our carry bag as heavy, plus it folds up smaller.  We have lots of off brand cars mixed in with matchbox and hotwheels so...

Dry Erase Cozy

My brother was around when I was making the crayon rolls, and got jealous of said crayon cozies and asked for a dry erase cozy for his business presentations.

He wanted a flap. He was a little picky but my mother was willing to oblige, she did most of the work.

This was WAY more work than four crayon rolls. Warning amateur sewers should not attempt this at home. Only with mothers on hand. Thank goodness I did it at my mom's house, with most of her work. I did make the M.

Crayon Cozies

My mom helped me make quite a few crayon rolls. Four to be exact, one for me, one for her, and two for presents. Did I ever post the colored pencil roll I made for the church bag? I didn't read the directions, it was way easier to do it with directions than otherwise. Even if it takes me longer to read the directions and finally understand the directions than to actually sew and cut something. (I'm bad with reading directions.)

I found them on my sister in law's friend blog, who got them for this blog.

If I would have thought about what I was doing, I would have made them longer and hold 24 crayons, all the boxes these days are 24. I got a box of 24 for $.25, how does that work?!?