We bought a house, remodeling the house, working full time, making baby quilts, Kenai Construction academy which is a 4 week training with electrical, plumbing, carpentry, and welding. Its been an amazing 4 weeks and I have learned A LOT. I will hopefully be building a sewing table/fabric storage/cutting table this week in carpentry.
School part time with my diet and nutrition courses, and my ethnobotany course. I am slowly working towards my Ethnobotany certificate and am excited to continue and learning about plants as medicine.
I was able to travel to Bethel last month for work and it was so great to be home.
Two fun giveaways! And I am thinking about doing another giveaway on this page so I can get the word out 🙂 Keep posted!
I finished my first big qaspeq order for the Kuskokwim Campus college. I cant wait to share pictures of the students in their beautitful qaspeqs.
Lets just say it was a busy busy December with sewing, sewing and more sewing!
Because homemade gifts are the best it was a busy sewing month. Frozen quilts. Christmas qaspeq vests. And just call me the crazy bag lady it was a busy month of bag making.
I have decided to move forward and start my own sewing business. Coming up with the business name was tough but I nailed it down to Sew Yup’ik.
It was a frozen themed Christmas sewing of gifts.Nothing like matching qaspeq vests to bring on the new year!With each changing season the cup cozies must change too 🙂These were two orders matching qaspeq set for two lucky girls, and bags for a happy customer.I wanted to have fancy fun colors for the new set of fish bags.Like I said another Frozen themed Christmas sewing. I have one quilt left to sew!These were created for a special someone who I hold close to my heart. Yes, one slipper says Dick they are for the great Dick Newton of Takotna.Because I work full time and am a full time student along with step mother, and wife its a busy life for me so an assembly line is how I work.My husband suggested I sport a new bag since I am a walking advertisement anyway so I had to upgrade my look. 🙂Step by step I make progress and am working with new designs and new bag layouts for fun!This was a wall hanging that I worked out with the help of a few ladies. This was not easy but it turned out awesome because I love bright colors and it had to be an old school skandic or elan snogo 🙂Im playing with fun designs for new qaspeq looks and this was one of them.This was the set I Just finished last night.Another batch of bags.My name business name! I love it and cant wait to sport my clothes with this awesome logo!Another order done.I had fun making these I love pastel fun colors.My poor husband has been so patient with me this is one of his slipper tops. I have finally finished the other side and will add the beaver on this evening! I will have an updated set to load hopefully in my next post!
Lets just say its been a busy month. With the new year approaching I am so thankful for my amazing supportive family and my obsessive personality to never sit down and rest and to always keep busy.Â
May your new year bring on happiness, good cheer, and all smiles!
Who says 13 credits, full time job, part time job, teenager, husband, pupper-do and sewing wasnt possible?
I guess you can say I like to stay busy as a bee, and do a very good job of that.
We are half-way thru October, which is insane! Where has summer gone? Where has fall gone?
As winter nears I get excited but sad because of how quickly time passes us, and sometimes I dont stop to enjoy the moments.
I enjoy what I do.
I enjoy my full time job.
My part time job working with the political frenzy is coming to an end. Only 12 more days and then the big boom of rush to the polls. So vote early, and just flat right vote.
And I love sewing. I love when winter nears because that means it times to bust out the fur and get fuzzy.
If I could just sew and go to school I dont know if that would be busy enough for me hence the two other jobs and all the other hats at home.
BUT enough rambling.
Heres the latest and greatest and I should have more projects to share before the end of the year!
Enjoy!
Boys size 10 simple qaspeqMore bags in the making! I love these colors and how well they mesh.Another one of my favorite boys size 10 qaspeq.I SAVE all my scraps and they come in handy when I whipped out these cup cozies.More kids Halloween trick or treat bags because they were a hit the first time, I had to whip them out a second time.Lets hope that these make some amazing grass baskets. I dont know how to make them yet but I am willing to learn and this is the first step collecting and drying it. I will post a proper photo of how to dry them because there is a specific way.My latest and greatest project moose beaded slipper tops. Beading isnt one of my strong areas but I am hoping to get better as I continue to bead.More Halloween trick or treat bags different style
Do what makes you happy.Â
Do it often and with joy because life is all about being happy and finding joy in the little things such as sewing or beading.
Welcome to the life of Sew Yupik 