Fabric Basket!

Teach appreciation week was a few weeks ago at my kiddos school, and I stayed up into the wee hours of the morning to finish making two of these GREAT little baskets. I was able to make them quickly thanks to a super tutorial over at Pink Penguin Yes, it was a last minute decisions to makes these little baskets. They have been in my "want to make" list for a month or so, and I thought what a perfect opportunity. Sorry about the picture on my dashboard. I stayed up until about 1am then got up at 6am to finish up. :)

Happy Valentines Day!

Wow, I have lots of Valentines projects to share! I have been busy making things, being a Mom, a Wife and looking for a part time job. Luckily my family has been patient with me as I try and juggle all of those things. ;-)

Valentines Cards
Yes I finally made some cards out of the K & Company valentines kit. I have to be honest, I looked at the beautiful paper for hours before I finally figured out how I wanted to use it. ;-) It was just to pretty to cut and I am also very used to using solid colors. But I was very pleased with how the cards turned out, although, I didn't take a picture of my first card. :)!

Valentine Fabric Fun
Scraps, scraps and more scraps! I am so thankful that I save my scraps, because I have been able to do so many extra projects with them. I made this quilted valentines wall hanging from some scraps I have had in my closet for years. Including the batting. :) The binding is from a small remnant I just bought recently. The letters are cut from the Birthday Bash Cricut cartridge. I haven't mastered cutting fabric on the cricut yet, so I just cut the letters on card stock and then trace them on the heat n bond.

Re-purposing an old t-shirt with a stain on the bottom and some pants that were a little short. So simple and so CUTE!

Reusable snack bags!

Woohoo to Fly Away Home with the awesome tutorial on how to make these cute GREEN little reusable snack bags. The great thing about these little bags is the velcro helps them stay open enough for little hands to get in and out, but also closes nicely! Another plus is that my kids can open them by themselves! :) My plan is to make about 4-6 more so I can stop all plastic bag use for snacks. ;-)

Quilt!

My Grandparents have always been a part of my life, and I love them very much. My grandmother taught me a few things about quilting. So I decided to make this quilt for both of them. I started this quilt years ago, maybe 4 or 5 years ago. It is finished now!!! :) My goal this year is to try and finish as many projects as I can and boy am I on a role!!! It feels so good to finish things.

Boys carry all bag!

My son is really into carrying things around lately. He has to have something in each hand, whether it is cars, balls, spatulas, crayons, markers, crackers, etc... So I decided to make him this very simple lined bag.

This bag is made from a flannel remnant he picked up at Joann's. Yes, he grabbed it as we walked by. :) Gotta love little hands. It was less than a dollar, so I decided to go ahead and buy it. The flannel remnant was the perfect size for the bag and I used some fleece I had in my scraps for the handles. Most of the time you can find this bag full of cars and being carried to and from our car, and the store. :)

ABC Bean Bags!

They are finished!!! Thank you to Chez Beeper Bebe for the great tutorial! My favorite part of making these was going through all my scraps of fabric, some of which I have had for 15+ yrs. :) It was great fun to use a lot of my little scraps, it made me happy that they were finally being used for something. My least favorite part was whip stitching them closed. Next time I make these adorable little bean bags, I think I will sew three sides, turn right side out, fill and then machine stitch the 4th side closed.

Felt Flower Pillow

Here goes... a little peak into my sewing world. I really love to sew when I don't have to cut out pattern pieces. ;-) Yes, sometime I do sew from some patterns, and really enjoy it once the pattern is pinned on, cut out and marked. :) This year I made my kids Halloween costumes and that got me into a sewing kick. So I just kept going. I made several Christmas presents this year and had a blast making all of them, well most of them. ;-)
My lucky sisters received these pillows for Christmas!

I found the great tutorial on Cluck Cluck Sew
I really did have a good time making these pillows and Allison has a great tutorial for this one.

The black and white pillow was fun and a bit challenging at points. I decided to pleat as I went after I couldn't get my sewing machine or serger to gather as it went. ;-) And the pleating was easy, the only challenge was I ran out of material with about an inch to go. That was my bad planning I guess, but luckily it was really easy to add a little more fabric on and Viola! It was complete and I think and hope my sisters really liked them.
Right now I am making spelling bean bags, I got the idea and directions from Chez Beeper Bebe Hopefully I will have them finished in a couple of days so I can share them with you!

Happy Crafting!