Easy Heart Garland

 

So, I was cruising Pinterest the other day and spotted this…

 

even though it’s in Japanese it was pretty self explanatory and since Audrey has been bugging me to sew something I figured this would a perfect first project.

 

Here she is at the machine

First we made the center of the heart seam

Then we flipped it and sewed another seam

Next, just cut about every inch to make the hearts…I just eyeballed it.

I went for a simple look and skipped the pom pom things. I used some sugar and spice yarn I picked up at wal-mart that looks like the trendy baker’s twine stuff.

I threaded through outside and the inside of the hearts using a darning needle and made the garland to fit the length of our mantle

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Happy Valentine’s Day! Love to you!

What to do With All Those Christmas Cards

 

Now that Christmas is over and I finally got all of decorations and the tree down and all the gifts put away and ran off all those extra calories . I was looking at the cards I received and wondered what can I do with these? I don’t really want to throw them in the garbage especially the photo cards. I searched the internet and found some inspiration.

For the Photos cards, which are my personal favorite. I made a picture collage for my scrapbook

 

With  the Cards I made gift tags for next year

don’t ya love the Santa Kitty

Happy Upcyling!

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I Spy Quilt

A few months ago, one of my favorite bloggers over at A Girl and Glue Gun held an I Spy Fabric Swap. She graciously arranged to have 20 people send in 20 squares of 5 different fabrics package them and send them back out to all the participants……by the way I don’t know how she does all she does on her blog, she has the greatest ideas and is really witty and funny!

I was super anxious to get my package in the mail. When it arrived my son 5 yr old son spent the whole evening checking out all the different fabrics and picking the ones out the he liked the most. There was such variety and so many fun patterns!

If you are unfamiliar with I SPY. It’s a book collection that is basically a picture of collection of objects with a list of items you have to find. It’s really fun for the kids.

 

 

Since I don’t really have any quilting skills yet…working on that one. I just arranged the squares and sewed them together. For the back, I used a thin fleece blanket that you can find anywhere this time year for around 2 bucks on clearance.

I tied it. Used an old sheet that I picked up from goodwill for the binding that I did by Hand. I found a really good video on You Tube for learning how to bind a quilt

How to Bind a Quilt...Connecting Treads

My First Binding/Finishing Job

 

And Since I am posting about I SPY quilts I thought I would share a quilt that one of my former coworkers, who happens to be a very talented quilted and seamstress, made for my son when he was born.

She had everyone else in the lab pick out a fabric and she put it all together. I love this pattern. I think when I finally get another I SPY stash together I will do something similar for my nephews. They need one of these quilts!

 

It’s Kind of hard to see but she even machine quilted in everyone’s name!

If you want more ideas you can link to I Spy Ideas at A Girl and a Glue Gun

Happy Quilting!

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some Christmas cheer! In Pictures

Candy Bar Snowmen

 

Christmas Card

Santa Hat Pretzels

Cookie Time

 

Yes, that is an Oreo decorating the cookie

 

The Tree

I’m Still Here

I realize I haven't posted for a long time….but I am back! I really don’t want to give up on this blog stuff even though my life gets crazy and I don’t feel like I have time for it. I need to make time…..after all if you love it, you can always make time for it. Or something like that

 

So I have been working on a really big time consuming project and I am finally done with it.

Time to reveal my first quilted wall hanging!

Some Applique detail

 

each day has a little pocket for treats

 

and the beautiful binding, finishing job my Mom did. I am so thankful for her! This project would have never been completed without her. She is a really great quilter. I was inspired by her work to take my own try at it and I am very proud of the results.

Halloween Preparation

 

Today the kiddos and I carved our Pumpkins. Didn’t do anything special……just your basic Jack of Lanterns.

 

 

 

By the way the second one is supposed to be a ballerina

 

And here’s a tip for keeping those pumpkins lit at night. Place your candle in a Mason Jar. It keeps the breezes away and keeps it from falling over. Gotta Love those Jars

 

Finished up my son’s costume. After much deliberation he finally made up his mind to be a spider.  Spider?? Hmmmm had to use a little creativity to whip this costume up.  I used a black turtleneck and cut the side seams. For the legs I used black tube socks stuffed with plastic bags and I found some cool metallic spider web fabric for the web. The hat is just a dollar beanie with googly eyes hot glued to it. He loves it and yes that is him crawling on the floor

 

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This blog has been interrupted….

By Sports, Life and Sick Kiddos.

In case you didn’t know the Brewers are in the NLCS along with the Tigers in the ALCS

Go Brew Crew….really hoping for a Tigers/Brewers world series in our house!

Pictures of the beautiful October Weather we have been having…..a record 10 days in a row over 70 degress! We went to a local pumpkin patch and had fun picking out our pumpkins.

My kiddos have came down with a viral illness….been running fevers with a horrible cough. So I am home today from work and have been working on a big for me sewing project. My first quilted wall hanging. It’s a really neat advent calendar with little pockets to keep our Christmas surprises. Here's a preview from sew Mama Sew

It’s been a challenge but I can't wait to get it done….my Mom is going to help me with the binding. I finished all the pockets today just have to do the sashing.

On that note gotta get the school for pickup time