Jason's Super Mario Cape

I decided I wanted a sewing machine. I want to sew. I saw a deal on Amazon and told Matt that's what I want. I don't remember for what holiday, maybe it was for my birthday or just because but either way he bought it for me. 

Great, the sewing machine was coming. I should buy fabric or something. So Jason and I ran into Joann's on one of our Sunday grocery shopping days. I asked Jason what I should make and he said a cape! He found so many fun character fabrics (he wanted them ALL) but I got him to settle on two kinds of Mario fabric. Uh, Mario is his ABSOLUTE favorite thing right now.

Okay.... so the sewing machine is coming and we have fabric but...

I DON'T KNOW HOW TO SEW! 

Me and my sister took a homeschool sewing class like a million years ago but I dropped out because the stupid machine kept jamming up EVERY TIME I tried to use it. That's all the experience I had.

Ava asked for a baby blanket for the new baby doll that she had just bought. I thought that'd be a great place to start. My grandma gave me a few quick tips, a couple youtube videos on how to thread your machine later and she had a brand new baby blanket!

Next were baby doll cloth diapers.

Success!

Then a couple of baby doll pillows.

Finally I felt confident enough to start on Jason's Mario Cape.

I followed this reversible cape tutorial HERE.

I found a mushroom and star template for my symbols. Then I decided I'd surprise Jason and add Super Jason in Super Mario Font on the bottom of the cape. This is the only place I ran into a little trouble. I decided I did not want to sew around the letters (like I had done with the symbols) to secure them, so I used heat n bond, the non sew one.... but for some reason some of my letters started peeling off soon after I had ironed them into place. *sad face* Not sure what I did wrong or if maybe I just misunderstood the purpose of the heat n bond. So I will be using some fabric glue to keep from losing my letters completely.

Had to take a pic of my little hipster before she ran outside to play

Needless to say, he LOVES it!