Blanket stitch appliqué
Love my bernina 730!
Sneak peak!
D's lunch bag! He's starting preschool this week, and clearly needs a super cool lunch bag (I'm making matching snack bags).Have to finish the quilt before I start sewing this.
Birthday surprise!
I've been working on this quilt for a month(among other things)… Almost done!!!
Happy Labor Day!
I made these paper flowers! It's my new craft crush! I ordered crepe paper online so I can make some roses too. Next up: fabric flowers!I've been busy sewing, just not photographing. I'll have to post a lot over the next week to catch up!If in SoCal, watch KOCE on Sunday night at 8 to […]
Sneak peek while I wait for a haircut!
My ocean skirt. I'm almost done with the coral. Then just little bits and beads and I'm all done!
Elderberries!
More pics to come, but here's the pot, as I boil the berries down to make juise to make jelly!
My cookie press!
We got it as a wedding gift 4 years ago, and I never got to use it, but it got unearthed yesterday, so d and I made cookies tonight!Not only are they pretty, and delicious, but D did a really good job helping me make them. (the best part was his asking me to just […]
Bookmaking!
I made this mini-book! D wants to put pics all through the inside,but Gram suggested that I put a ribbon on it and hang it on my xmas tree! this is the kit I used, by http://booksbyhand.com, bought at http://theurbancraftcenter.comand I just made some cornstarch glue so that I can make more books (and bigger […]
A is for Apron!
I mentioned the book previously, so here’s my go at an apron!I made all the bias (like 10 yards of it!) with my handi-dandy new simply-ez bias ruler and a bias makerI also didn’t have a pattern, per se…Just a small scale picture of the layout, which I didn’t have the patience to enlarge. I’m […]
fixed it!
So this was the skirt, unshaped.Somehow I made this rectangle shaped skirt, which would fit: nobody so I reshaped it, and here it is(very dirty and wrinkled after a day with the kids… banana, pasta, mud, etc) Tutorial up next!