Christmas Fun - Swaps, finishes & Family

Santa Sack Swap

This year I had so much fun with this swap. It started back in July and every moth my partner and I had to send each other gifts and save them till this month to open. It was very hard to not peak!

Here is a pic of everything I got in my sack! Vickie was very generous.

look at these beautiful pins and pincushion she made.

I absolutely love this sewing kit!

Beautiful! Thank you so much for everything you sent me, Vickie!



Finishes

This is a rag quilt I mad for my Husband for Christmas. Each block has original drawings by our children. 

I made this Advent Calender from an idea I saw on Pintrest (I couldn't find the post to share with you) my kids had so much fun putting the count down numbers up everyday!

Family

Here are a few of the Christmas pictures my family took for our holiday cards this year.  I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and I wish you all a Happy new year!

Till next time, have fun sewing!

Things I've Finished

Lucias Quilt

It's been a few months since my last blog and I have had a few finishes. I want to start with a quilt I did for my friends daughter, Lucia. It is the blue & pink half square diamond quilt. With this quilt instead of using batting I used a fleece backing, also instead of quilting it I tied it. I did close to three hundred ties. It was worth the time I put into it when I saw the Lucia's face, when she saw it.

Tie Dye

Last month, for Dragon Day at the kids school, was Hippie Day. So my friend Shelley and myself made tie dye shirts for the kids. I really like how they came out.

Wall Hanging

I made a Halloween wall hanging for my house last week. I made the backing big enough to make a self binding quilt. Everything you see around the panel is the backing folded over to the front.

The kids really enjoy looking at it and coming up with stories about it.

Trinitie

And last but not least is a picture of my daughter sleeping with one of her quilts. It makes me happy to see my children using and enjoying the quilts I make, with love, for them.

Till next time, have fun sewing!

Back to School

Today was the kids first day back to school. They were so excited to be going back to school after a rather long summer.

I made these candy jars for the kids teacher's as a welcome back to school and a thank you for teaching my children. On the bottom of the jar are pictures of my kids and a piece of felt to protect the jar from being broken against a table.

I have a new calender ready for this years school events and extra activities. I had fun making a felt, white board, eraser with a magnet on it and adding magnet to my dry erase markers.

My Temporary Sewing Space!

This summer both if my kids are with their Grandparents, so I'm turning our dinning table into my sewing table. I have several project I want to get done and as you can see I have a few things on the table already. As I get things done I will share them with you. I can't wait to get started!
Till next time, have fun sewing!

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More Tie Dye Fun

I have always wanted to dye my own fabric, I've always loved the look of the different colors mixed together. I happened to have several, white, fast quarters, so I got to work dyeing the fabric. I must say, I am quite happy with what I made.

Till next time, have fun sewing!

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Small Pincushion

I was so tired of my needles getting lost in my large pincushion. So, I made this small one. Next task will be to make more for every size needle I have.

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Tie Dye Fun

Yesterday I made some time to do a fun new project with my kids & this us what we came up with. We did tie dye for the first time. We had such a good time tying up and dying our fabric, wich is not as easy as it may seem. It was so hard to wait all the hours we had to wait, for our first look at the finished project. We are looking forward to our next tie dying adventure!

Till next time, have fun sewing!

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Valentine Day

My daughter was so excited This mourning when she woke up and saw the her sweater had big red hearts on it. This weekend I was at Walmart and I found this white sweatshirt for $3 and of course I got it. So I had this sweatshirt in my hand last night and I had an idea. I went searching through my art stash and I found what I was looking for, red felt. So I got to work. I cut out hearts in all different sizes and then stitched on the hearts I liked. It was such a fun and easy project and I would defiantly do another one.

Till next time, have fun sewing!

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Feet Warmers

A few weeks ago I went to a craft fair and met an older woman (cant remember her name) who was selling aprons and we started talking about sewing. One conversation led to another and eventually we started taking about Christmas gifts and She told me she made feet warmers for her family. I was so excited about the idea, I couldn't wait to make my own. I did end up having to wait because I was still working on Christmas quilts (first priority) and then we were out of town. So I finally got around to making them and I love them! I put mine at the foot of the bed and it keeps my toes warm all night.

All you need to do is sew together either, one long strip of fabric on three sides or sew two pieces if fabric together on all four sides.

•turn the fabric right side in.

•Sew the sides (and bottom if useing 2 pieces of fabric) and the top. Make sure to leave an opening so you can turn it inside out.

•Before closing insert rice (i used white rice) through the opening. I filled it about half way.

• If you'd like to make a strap, you could put it in before closing.

• Sew the opening closed and your all done.

Warm it in the microwave for one minute and enjoy! Remember, don't add anything that might damage your microwave to your foot warmer!

Till next time, have fun sewing!

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Pincushion

I just wanted to share this fun project with you. I made one of these for a friend of mine and decided that "maybe I should make one for myself." And so I did.

Want to make one yourself?
This is what you need:
-a tea cup
-a piece of fabric
-a styrofoam ball
-a few scraps of batting
-thread and needle
-a gule gun and glue stick

Step 1
place the cup upside down on the fabric and draw a circle about four inches bigger than the cup. Cut the circle out.

Step 2
Turn the fabric wrong side up. Place the scraps of batting on the fabric. Then put the foam ball ontop of the batting.

Step 3
Sew the fabric closed around the ball and batting. I sewed it like I would sew a yoyo (running stich, then pull it closed).

Step 4
Once you finished with your the fabric section put it aside, but keep it close.

Get your glue gun ready. Once its hot glue the bottom and rim of your cup. After its glued push your fabric ball into it and hold. When the glue is dry your done.


I do hope you enjoy making your own.

Till next time, have fun sewing

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Lunch

This school year both of my children have lost their snack/lunch bags and have, for a few months, been throwing their snacks in a pocket of their backpack. I started to feel bad anout this, thinking to myself "what kind of Mom lets their kids have loose food in their backpack?". The problem is, I didn't want to spend more money on something that they treat like a soccer ball, at times. So this was my solution! I made them lunch bags from spare fabric, how smart am I!? To top it off, I made the sacks out of fabric that has characters they like. So now I am hoping they will take better care of their bag.

Till next time, have fun sewing!

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