Tiny Baby Girl

So I'm getting a niece in August.  I'm really pumped!  After three nephews I finally get my first niece!


(It may have been leaked a little early on my Facebook page.  But I had no part in that! FYI)


Here are all the things I've made for people with a baby girl... and I wasn't even related to her!


I will admit I was at Hancock's buying fabric for another occasion and I did find some $2.00/yd bargain fabric that I thought would look especially cute on my soon to be niece.

We'll see what happens...

Project

One of the next projects I want to do is make some kind of table runner for our dining room.  I bought this fabric a while ago.

I know this fabric is going to look awesome in our home, I just don't know how to go about making it.  I don't want anything that is going to look weird or out dated.  I don't want it to look like just a piece of fabric on the table either.  I'm a little stuck.  I need some kind of pattern, but there is nothing out there that I have found to be cute.

ugh...someday I will make a runner out of this.

My Vintage Fabric Stash

I just wanted to show you some of my vintage fabric stash.  You all know I get my vintage fabrics from leftovers etc.  The only thing about it is you never know what you are going to get or how much.  The top left is just an upholstery sample (but a large one).  The top right has over 3 yards!  The bottom left is a yard and the bottom right is half a yard.

For Good

Ever thought of crafting for good?  You can always find out about how you can share your talents with under resourced people on craftster.org.  They have a board called crafting for good not evil.  On this board I found this really cute campaign to get 132 dolls to an orphanage in Haiti. (HERE)  Just something to bring a little joy to these young kids' lives in a torn country.  This "I Sew Cute" girl on craftster really did make some cute dolls.  There is still time for you to participate.  They are asking that they are post marked by November 1, 2010.

To find out more about this charity please go here to see the original post.

Hand-Made Sunday

I'm making some fabric bunting for the wedding.  I'm making a lot so I wanted to make it in a time efficient manner.  Here's how I'm doing it...

Here was all the supplies that I needed to make the wedding bunting.

After buying the fabric that I wanted to make my flags out of I found this pinking shear shaped rotary cutter.  It would have taken me a full day of cutting fabric to get all of the flags with my pinking shears.  This rotary cutter only took me one distracted hour while watching Gilmore Girls.

I should have taken a better picture of the flags because each pile is about 2 inches tall of fabric!  That's a LOT of flags.

I use this bias tape to sew the flags too.  Double fold really looks much better than the single fold.  I bought this on accident.  It cost considerably less than the double fold, so I'm not that upset about it.  You saw how many flags I have, so I'm going to need a lot of that tape!

It's really too much of a hassle to pin the flags to the tape, so I just take it as it comes.  I line up the end of the flag under the fold of the flag.  I put my needle in it and then line up the rest of the flag.  I used a zigzag stitch because it's cute and I think it will hold well.

I just keep it lined up by holding it together with my fingers.

Here is the end result!  It's a line of flags.  They are going to add a lot to make that wedding atmosphere in my outdoor wedding.

Irene's Button Journal!

I just posted this little fabric covered journal on my etsy shop here!  I screen printed this little bow on the cover and sewed on a button.  The vintage fabric is my favorite part though.

Christmas Project #3: Aprons

I wanted to make aprons for my friends.

On November 21st I completed this apron. I thought it would be cool for my friend to make a cool vintage looking one and here is what I came up with...

I added pleats all along the edge of a secondary fabric and tacked on a cute bow to the pocket.

It is a little sickeningly floral and pink, but I kind of thought that part about it was fun and vintage looking.

I did get both of these fabrics from my favorite place, leftovers etc. So this is vintage fabric.

Hippie Quilt

My great-grandmother Launa Henley made this quilt for my mom in the early '70s. It has no batting. It is held together by yarn tied at the corner of the squares. Great-Grandmother Launa Henley called it the hippie quit. I have always called it the picnic quilt. My mom has always brought it along for picnics or to lay on during fireworks on the fourth of July. When I got my first car at the age 18 I put this blanket in the trunk. I have had many picnics on it since. I like to take it to the park with a book and read.
I just love the fabrics in this quilt. Especially the one above.
Look at those delicate hand stitches that line the border! I love the history of it. I love the idea that my great-grandmother made this just for my mom when she was a young teenager. She had no idea how much a twenty something would love it 35 years later.

I told my mom today that the quilt was now mine.