Life is Beautiful

I mentioned this briefly in my post yesterday but I wanted to make an official announcement since I am very excited about it! I’ve decided to bring back a lot more sewing onto the blog! Remember when I used to post a DIY project every Monday? That was almost 2-3 years ago. I want to start posting once a week again, and make the blog’s main focus to be on sewing/creating/ DIY. It’ll mostly be sewing, but I will have home decor DIY, party DIY and things to do with creating. I will be posting about motherhood and family and things I’ve been up to, so it’ll have personal posts also, but the thing that you can count on when you come to my blog is that I’ll have a DIY project every week. I want to add videos as well! I am working on getting a few projects made right now so that in a month or two I can start posting DIY projects once a week on a set day like I used to! I’ve been craving to sew and I just need to make it happen instead of making excuses. And now that my 3rd child is almost two, I feel like I have a little more balance in my life and can do things for myself in the day. And my older two kids will be in school all day starting this Fall! So I guess you can say it took me 2 years to finally adjust to having 3 kids. Most of the time anyway. Okay, like 70% of the time.

These three fabrics above are some of my DIY projects that’s next on my list to tackle. What’s the first thing I do when I purchase fabric? I pre-wash them. I didn’t always pre-wash my fabric, I would get too excited to just get it started but I’ve noticed a lot of the times I’d make something that fits me perfectly to the T and then I’d throw it in the washer & dryer and the fit is different, usually a tad smaller than before, So I started washing it before sewing and I prefer it this way more. I washed these with method, mainly because the fragrance smells really good and I love how it makes my clothes smell. There’s a fragrance for everyone (fruity (ginger mango), floral (spring garden), herbaceous-woody (beach sage and fresh clover), and free + clear (no fragrance). But finding out that method detergent is 4x concentrated so I only need to use a very small amount and it’ll last a long time, and it keeps colors bright and whites white, and biodegradable and hypoallergenic formula makes me feel good about using it too. 

So should you pre-wash your fabric before sewing? I say yes! How about you, do you always pre-wash your fabric? Or do you just start sewing?