A bird pillow

I made a copy of a pillow i found on etsy! The little birds are made of felt with little embroidered eyes and feathers, on linen.



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My First Quilt

I've been working on a small first quilt for a week or so and making some progress. I've got the quilt top done and im pretty happy with it for a first effort!




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Wish I had said it

 

Tallahassee Magazine - Land of the White Squirrel

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Saw these this weekend - really weird.

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Making me laugh..

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Making and icing cookies always seems like such a great idea until we are 30 cookies deep. Chey and I had fun making these together last night. I spent all my energy trying to squash her artistry into my martha stewart fantasy while she cheerfully made "everything" cookies (every variety of sprinkle on one cookie) - it was a great time.

Burlap / Muslin Tree

So, I've been at it with the hot glue again.
This is the first of three of these trees I'm making.

Rejects No More

 Remember the rejected Cathedral Quilt Blocks? Well - two of them are rejects no more! Now they are a small zippered bag. Ignore the crap sewing in the next picture and just be as happy that I am that two less of these blocks are lounging around in my drawer!

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

I stumbled on DashingEtc's Etsy shop while looking for ideas around felt flowers and LOVED LOVED LOVED what they do with felt. I decided to give it a try. Mine aren't nearly as pretty, and I still haven't decided what to do with them. But, nonetheless - there they are.

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

Another attempt at a project from the Martha Encyclopedia of Sewing and Fabric Crafts (or something like that - its an awesome book). It turned out ok - was the first time I ever used bias tape! I'm not a very good seamstress and I am kind of just learning to sew. But I was happy with how it came out given my experience level and how some of my other efforts came out. The fabric was a 50% off remnant from JoAnne's so this was about a 5.00 project. (I had to buy bias tape - not even close to being able to make it myself).

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!