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Burlap / Muslin Tree
This is the first of three of these trees I'm making.
Rejects No More
Owls from PawPaws Ties
I saw the tutorial for these on the Etsy shop "AllyAdeney". It was super easy to follow and I'm loving these little guys. After making the necktie pillow for my MawMaw, I had a ton of PawPaw's ties left over and wanted to make something for some of the other family members from them. These were a big hit. I made a couple as pins / brooches and a couple of them were magnets. Cute! The tutorial is here - http://www.etsy.com/shop/allyadeney.
Felt Flowers
Chiffarobe - upcycled.
I need some crafting storage. I don't know where all the stuff I got came from, but its taking over my house. My gaming table is now covered, my office is being taken over - its a hot mess.
I decided to take a chiffarobe that is in pretty bad shape and upcycle! It is a family piece of furniture that I am not willing to part with, but is not attractive enough to warrant a spot in a public location of my house. The black and turquoise match nothing in my house. I don't care. I'm so frakkin' in love with this thing since we painted it. The PSS took the fabric scraps and covered drawer dividers for me and we painted some pegboard and hung inside the door to hang tools and containers. I ordered some card catalog drawer pulls from Amazon for three bucks each and look how amazing it looks!!
Project Bag - from the Martha Book
A commissioned work!
My daughter (19 years old btw) asked me to embroider this bird on a plain canvas tote bag for her. She picked up the bag at JoAnne's for 3 bucks. I bought the embroidery pattern from Sublime Stitching - http://sublimestitching.com. They have so many fun patterns, I have a hard time picking. The letters were an add-on requested by my daughter. I am going to pretend that I don't know what they mean.
I decided to try my hand at taking this to the next level by cutting the top of the bag (with the straps) off and then attached the bottom to these wooden purse handles that I had in my stash from an decidedly bad crochet project last winter. It needs a liner, that is still on my "to do" list. But, I think its awesome!
Felt Flower Pins and Ruffle Scarves to Match!!
So girly I could die!!!
I saw the pattern for these on Living with Punks and really loved hers and wanted to try the tutorial. This is the first thing I have ever sewn successfully with the Singer and I can't believe how much I love them.
The red one was made after I learned how to use the ruffler foot on the Singer - MUCH easier!
Oh Man, I made an official wallet. A real one.
I made this wallet with my grandma's Singer. We almost had words - it was not happy about the thick layers of fabric. But HOLY MOLY I MADE A WALLET!! This is huge!!
Look! It looks like a real wallet!!!
This tutorial was genius and mine looks just like hers does (well - with a few messy exceptions).
The tutorial was found at That Darn Kat - check it out.
The Mantle
Sweaters from my closet used to cover the hurricane lamps and candles. The frame - a flea market find. We added the red and white ticking fabric and the bicycle built for two is something my PSS built for my PawPaw. Im really happy with it.
Martha - I'm coming for ya..
Letters - 3.00
Yarn - free - I already had it.
Sweater for the A and the chicken - free - its my PawPaws (who passed away last year, so it's special).
Brown Paper Packages
So I, like everyone else in the crafty blogosphere, had to try my hand at the coffee filter wreath. My family thought I was crazy. Hell, I thought I was crazy too - a jillion coffee filters later - look how pretty!!
Contact Paper, the WWW and me.
This is my laundry room / mud room. It used to be pink. We didn't love it. It didn't give me the warm and fuzzies during laundry time. It gave me the heebie jeebies.
Paint - Grey.
Trim - White.
Me - love it, but bored, with access to car keys and Ace Hardware. (which I love, by the way).
I have been wanting to do some fake vinyl wall art - fake meaning - homemade with contact paper, but hadn't really found what I wanted or couldn't find black contact paper on sale in a store I could drive to. (don't love waiting on shipping when I get fired up about one of these projects).
So I surfed and surfed and surfed the vinyl art websites until something inspired me and I went for the bubbles. White and chrome contact paper - a couple of bowls and a compass. Ive got bubbles in the laundry room and I LOVE IT!
Couples Counseling
However, the precision, patience and attention span required to made an entire quilt or runner or anything bigger than what you see pictured - I dont have it. So this is it. Quilting - CHECK! Gonna call it a pillow - and gonna call it a day on that crafting tangent. I have a whole new respect for my MawMaw's patience and precision levels.
My Rheumatism is acting up...
My MawMaw made beautiful beautiful beautiful - am I being clear here? BEAUTIFUL cathedral window quilts, runners, whatever. I have loved them since I was a kid. She couldn't remember how to made the blocks to explain it to me - so I googled. And of course - the crafting community was able to guide me.
Cathedral Window is a pattern for a quilt-as-you-go quilt. It requires a fair amount of precision due to the right angles and geometry of the whole ordeal.
I have some issues with precision as it relates to handicrafting. I'm also "challenged" or "special needsy" in the area of spatial relationships. Maybe it wasn't the best choice for ME, personally. Maybe I could have selected something more suited to my personal style - like Modge Podging.
Oh No, not I. I can DO THIS!!!
Actually, I can't do this. Not alone anyway. I had to recruit primary spousal support. HE can cut a perfect square that doesn't go wonky on one side. HE can iron in the necessary seam allowances that then result AGAIN in a perfect square that doesn't go wonky on one side. I can provide the VISION! And the stitching from that point forward. These are our initial efforts and making two squares that are the exact same size so that we can sew them together. Not so successful at first. These are actually the reject pile. None of them are exactly the same size as any other.
These rejects have now moved to "unfinished projects" as I am convinced I can eventually make something from them.
Yep, it works.
This is my Grandma's sewing machine. It weighs 700lbs. She carried it up from the basement and asked if my primary spousal support could take a look at it and get it working again. We brought it home and the answer was "no". The thread snapped every time we tried to sew anything. Same issue she had been having. PSS took it to a local repair shop and it was determined that there were some technical problems preventing the proper operation of this machine.
The needle was inserted backwards.
He offered to oil the machine and tune it and whatnot. We decided that would be a good birthday gift for my MawMaw and had it done. When we took the machine to MawMaw for her birthday and gushed over how much we love it, she asked if we would like to make a trade. Our 15 year old machine for her old old machine. The newer machine was lighter and easier to thread and move around for her on her own. We were all over it!
It has some challenges. It hates layers of fabric. It hates me, also. It needs lots of kind words and encouragement to do what I ask it to without complaint. Granted, I ask it to do alot of crazy s*&^. But we are developing a relationship, slowly.
All of the sewing project's that are posted are made with this machine. Unless they were made with THIS machine (pointing to myself, with thumbs...chest puffed out.)!
I got a Nook for my birthday and need a cover...
A Nook, A Nook, A Nook! I do the happy dance every time I think about my wittle nookie nookster McNookieNess. I love it! Thank you, Karen for the Nook! But, the arrival of the Nook started a frenzy of cover shopping. I needed just the right cover, something that made a statement.
A statement like, "Look! Look! I got a Nook!"
Sew..I mean SOOOOOO - I made one to "tide me ovah" until I could find one that would meet my stringent critieria. Must be geektastic. Must made aforementioned statement. Must actually cover Nookie McNookerson.
In my world, these types of ideas, once rooted in my mind - take priority over EVERYTHING. Including but not limited to - wintertime warmth. My daughter donated her 19.99 Old Navy Peacoat from last year. No, it wasn't worn out. No, it hadn't been retired. Yes, I promised to buy her a new one. Yes, the offer of a new (probably pricier) coat bribed her out of hers. I wanted the navy "wool". I cut it up and googled "blanket stitch" to figure out how to make the stripey stitch on the edges to hold it together and patched together a robot out of vintage fabric scraps given to me by my grandmother. (Except the arms, which are a garland from a christmas card I received last year.) Months have passed, I STILL haven't bought a cover and am still making do with this guy.
Unfinished Project - CHECKED off my list!
Occasionally, I let a few projects go unfinished. Specifically, projects that can't be completed in 24 hours. So I'm trying to make it a priority to finish off a few of those dangling efforts. This scarf is one of those things. I found the pattern for the cogs on a blog somewhere (I can't seem to dig it back up to link it up) and decided that I would crochet some of them and applique them to this scarf (5.00 scarf purchased at Clair's). This whole thing happened approximately a year ago. I made the cogs, I pinned them in place on the scarf. I started stitching them to the scarf. I folded the scarf. I put the scarf on a table. I needed the table space a week later. I moved the scarf to a yarn bin full of crochet hooks and projects and whatnot. I found a cooler pattern. I saw something shiny. Someone started talking to me. The phone rang. Whatever - a year later its still folded and has been moved over and over and still isn't completed. I hated the way the sewing looked after I tried to attach the cogs to the scarf and couldn't decide on a better method blah blah blah.
This weekend - I bit the bullet - got the scarf out, and hot-glued the cogs to the scarf. It worked, I'm happy - scarf finished.
I've been making some stuff
I've been on a weird tangent lately, making a ton of crazy random crafts. Primarily other peoples ideas - the crafting / DIY world online is HUGE. Who knew? Well, probably everyone but me, moving on...
A trifecta of time-killing hobbies all culminating in some fridge magnets. First, I bought a Chinese Brush Painting Kit one weekend at Hobby Lobby on a lark and spent approximately 24 hours deeply consumed by this ancient art. The penguins and the dog are the product of that 24 hours. Secondly, I completed some pencil drawing tutorials that are available online. (drawspace.com and pencilonly.com) The tree and the eye are the products of that weekend obsession. Thirdly, I plugged my scanner back up for the first time in months and started scanning everything in sight and modge podging everything not nailed down.
VOILA!! Fridge Magnets!
Big Big Big video game day
20 minutes until the release of Fable 3 in the US!!!! I will be at the Gamestop in the morning and will hopefully be able to tear myself away long enough to post my impressions by evening.
Secondarily, (ONLY because of Fable 3) RockBand 3 releases tomorrow, as well. I am SO EXCITED! KEYBOARDS!!! I have gotten the cortisone shots in my wrist - the tendinitis that I picked up as a result of my initial round of obsession with Rock Band has healed.
This is going to do wonders for my aimless wandering around the house in the evenings.
Secondarily, (ONLY because of Fable 3) RockBand 3 releases tomorrow, as well. I am SO EXCITED! KEYBOARDS!!! I have gotten the cortisone shots in my wrist - the tendinitis that I picked up as a result of my initial round of obsession with Rock Band has healed.
This is going to do wonders for my aimless wandering around the house in the evenings.
My MawMaw's Birthday
My Maw Maw asked me to make something from my Paw Paws neckties. (He passed away last year.) I'm really loving how this pillow turned out. We are taking it to her for her birthday!
Buhlinda Clark
Buhlinda Clark: "
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Not my real name.
Mother, Wife, Reader, Writer, Learner, Tap Dancer (if watching
YouTube instructional videos and owning tap shoes counts), doodler,
crochet arteest, European Board Gamer (sounds snooty, right? Cause it
is!!), Video Gamer, Rock Band Master, reader of craft blogs and
collector of crafting stuff and non-completer of actual crafts,
self-improvement wanna-be and purveyor of too much snarkiness (if such a
thing exists and if “snarkiness” is actually a word).
IT chick (networks), Project Manager (Cisco VOIP – holla!), hiding my real identity, controlling my Google Presence.
"
Screwed up my picture posting
Got home and looked at the blog and had a WTF?!?! AYFKM?!?! moment - what the hell is all that sprint crap? Apparently I attached instead of inserting to my emails when I was mobile posting. So - pulled them all down and am re posting them. I think its fair to say that they will be both NEW and IMPROVED.
Rules for workers
Day before the Con
Still need boots for Batwoman - have to go to the transvestite store today ("Drag Factory" - ha!) to get them as they are the only place I can find that has size 10 knee high red boots. Work continues on the mask and the utility belt - Mr. Batwoman is busy painting, how's that for waiting until the last minute?
Mr. Batwoman is also painting a helmet for another con-goer and sewing her vest for what is looking like a pretty good Daft Punk costume.
The Mask
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Hey Posterous - lets TEST this thing so you will take that damn message off of my screen...super annoying!!
Domestic Diva
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| Picked this up at JoAnns last night, Im gonna make it. I love the retro shape. Domestic Diva, that's me! |
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