My New Ruffle Necklace

My first project with my sewing machine was an easy one, but I loved it!
A ruffle necklace! They're the latest rage all over blogland, and I wanted to try one. I used a tutorial from Happy Together.

I had some fabric I found that I bought on sale last year, It's like a brown/golden organza.  Very cute!
Cut a piece that is 20x3 inches. My edges weren't perfectly straight, but I didn't care 'cause once it was ruffled no one would be able to tell.

Fold it in half and sew a seam with a long stitch, and leave lots of excess string on both ends. The seam should leave a pocket just big enough for your chain to go through. Actually I pulled my chain through with a safety pin, so big enough for that, if you're going to use one.

Then grab one of the long strings from the end of the fabric and start scrunching the fabric down to ruffle it.
Pull a necklace chain through the pocket and there's a fancy new necklace! Since mine was made of organza I used the burn method to singe the edges to keep them from fraying. Here's the result:

I don't really like taking pictures of myself...but there you go. :)
~Crystal

My early Christmas present is....

A SEWING MACHINE!!! Something I've always wanted! I'm sooooo excited! This one is not just any sewing machine, but a Confidence Quilter! I know, I know, I'm not much of a quilter, but it comes with so much stuff for making super cute things anyway, it's not just for quilters.

Check out the extra long arm...oh  yeah.

 

Look at all those fun stitches!!! I don't know if you can see it, but there's actually a doggy stitch. It's on the bottom row in red, how cute is that?!

And it came with a lot of extra presser feet and a quilting foot, whoohoo!

So fun!

Now what to make for my first project? I known it's going to be a refashioning because #1 I'm so addicted to that right now, and #2 I really shouldn't spend extra $$ on just some fun fabric, so it's time to get thrifty :D

THANK YOU! THANK YOU Ben, my love!

Merry Christmas to me :)   (and you too, of course!)