What you will find and why you are here

Welcome to Sweet Bottom Sewing Company - Celebrating a life made simpler by sewing! For a while now, family and friends have asked me to post photos of the things I have made or can make so they could share them with their friends. What started out as a necessity, sewing, has become a great love and hobby and remains a constant adventure. I don't really follow patterns, I just have a feel for something and go with it. From bedding and window treatments to fun applique shirts and monogrammed towels, everything is done with love. Check out the Photo Galleries links below (on the left) to see more of my fun stuff! My FaceBook page is filled with albums of photos of custom orders of shirts, baby gifts, draperies and monogramming ideas.

You won't find just sewing stuff here either. It's become much more than that. Sweetbottom has become a part of our lives and that life is getting put down on the screen right alongside the flags and onesie dresses. Welcome Y'all.


Monday, March 19, 2012

Refresh, Renew and bring on Spring!!

We bought the house in 2003 and started on a journey of renovation that, I hate to admit, continues today. At this point, I never imagined the need for a permanent sewing space but that was way before 4 little grabby hands get into everything you own. This was me trying in vain to cover up the lime and aqua vinyl wallpaper that was attached to the walls in our attic.



After a few years of sewing in another old outdated spare bedroom, we finally got around to
work on bringing the upstairs into this century. Cay you say Goodbye purple and blue Berber and old dark paneling and Hello wood floors and new paint. The birth of a child brings on a whole new world of opportunities. Where the upstairs was once going to be a place "to hang out with an awesome kegarator watching football games" has turned into "Play Land" with comfortable soft seating, reading nooks and great fun colors. The traveling sewing room gets displaced again. I move from a spare small bedroom to the attic (above).

My husband bought me this awesome sewing machine for Christmas in 2006 and from it I have discovered all kinds of new and wonderful talents I never knew I had. This Christmas he bought me a TV for the sewing room. His claim "if your going to be spending so much time in there..." It was a wonderful thought and he was being really sweet. Honestly I enjoy the quiet of my sewing space. This is what happened next. Since we had to move the table to hang the TV and wires and cabling and why don't we......


  • add a craft work area and more storage

  • Recover that old dirty table and make some new legs for it

  • Get a nice cabinet that I can store all my blank shirts and fabrics in

  • Make room under the table for out of season stuff like tote bags and beach towels.
Another shot of the "before" that I have been working with for about 5 years.


After of the same section with this wonderful storage cabinet, thread racks, and a place to really get some work done. Thanks Honey for all your hard work.

If you need me - I'll be sewing.........

Friday, March 16, 2012

Falling behind, springing ahead......trying to keep up!

Un-Seasonably warm winter, earlier "Spring forward" time change, lots of remodeling up in the sewing room and two little boys who want to be active all the time have kept me from updating the blog as often as I had ever intended. I have to learn to stop apologizing publically for things that only I see as personal shortfalls! Anyway.....The sewing room is as done as I can get it right now with my workload backing up. You can see awesome pictures of the before and afters here: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.339927876052172.80737.140636292647999&type=3 Thanks hubby for all the hard work!

I try to always update the latest sewing project or customer order on my Facebook Page here:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Sweet-Bottom-Sewing-Company/140636292647999
Honestly, it is where I get most of my customer questions and where most of my orders come from. Probably because I keep it updated, huh, makes sense doesn't it. Anyway it is easier to upload and organize photos albums and send out messages to all my friends and customers.

What does all this mean to you- nothing probably. To me, I'm behind and trying to get caught up as will always be the case I suspect. I have tons of Applique designs on Facebook to browse through and if you still don't find anything you like drop me a note and I will work to find you something special.

Happy Spring everyone and thanks for a wonderful first year @SweetBottomSewing theBlog.