One more craft for the day

My poor little chicken still needs a real eyeball.. it looks like he has one, but really it's just part of the fabric. He's a pincushion!:) He's my second try, my first one was way TOO big and I had the beak and hair thingy all messed up. Beside it sits a crayon case all rolled up, I'm going to send it to one of my nieces. Here it is opened. I was supposed to use rickrack around the edges, but all I had was lace.. and I know the ribbon is cream and the rest is white, but I was just using what I had in my craft box. I have five nieces total, so I'm thinking four more crayon rolls are in my future. My oldest niece is too big for crayons, so I think if I just make it a little bigger, it will work well for colored pencils too!


I have a pounding headache.. I wonder if it's from all my sewing attempts this weekend! It's amazing the free stuff you'll find on the internet!

I finished them!

You can't tell it on the picture, but the buttons dont' really stick up that high.. they have a cute little white pinstripe around the edge of them. My plan was to make one, but to have the different fabric go on both sides. So I very carefully made matching circles, thinking I'd sew them together! But did you know if you take two exact same pieces and put the wrong sides together, they don't match up?! DUH! I should have remembered that from the heart needle case! DUH! Oh well, so I made two...one for me and one for my friend. I used DMC Perle, one is pink and one is green, but I think next time I might make a skinny trim to use for it, I'm not sure the perle is thick enough.

Here's one of the back, I was supposed to use a heavy weighted felt, but I was just using up scraps, so I used a plan fabric. The part I left open, to turn the thing.. that was kind of hard to stitch it to a nice little circle shape, I'll have to practice that one!

I took the pictures on the center part of my grandma's quilt...all of those triangles are handsewn!

Yeah Me!!

I'm in the process of making these! I've got them stuffed, but need to sew the opening and do the threads seems and add the button!



And check out my tray!! :)


See what all can be done w/o children in the house! Of course my youngest just called from Mamaw's, 1 1/2 hrs away, and wants to come home! So off I go.. think of all the stuff I could have done! But when a child bekons, a mommy's got to go!

Those little rings on the tray are supposed to hold thread from the project you are working on. I had to hold the needle case closed, it's too thick to stay by itself, so I'm gonna have to add a button or something!

I'm such a NON sewer! I'm so proud of myself! :)

Kids are gone!

It's spring break for us, and the kids decided they needed to stay at Mamaw's. (she's about 1 1/2 hrs from us) So they've been there since Monday night. That has left me all day Tues, Wed, Thurs for stuff like stitching! I did squeeze in a trip to the gym today! Got a call from my youngest today that he wanted to come home... we were getting ready to go get him and he changed his mind! So my last day of goofing off is tomorrow!

I finished stitching an over-one needlebook! It's on yellow fabric, with The Dye is Cast dark blue thread called Night Sky! I love it! But it took way more thread than I thought! There are a few other parts to it, but if I can't get more thread I'll have to skip that part! I think I have a little more of the fabric.. I need to check my stash pile tomorrow.

Back in Sept. I ordered a French pattern and it all fits on a tray. Well I have done all the sewing, everything needed backing... and so tomorrow I'm going to put it all together. I need to add a fabric border and attach all the little pieces to the background stitched piece. I can't wait to show you, it's gonna be cute! :)

A few more

Now why are they blurry? If you click on them, they open up and are fine, but on my blog they look blurry! Here's a few more! This is a scissors case, made specifically for a pair of scissors, which of course I don't have! I won this pattern in a Bingo game! It came with the fabric and the two Dinky Dye threads.. loved them!


These pictures were taken on my grandmother's quilt! Check out all the detail in that hand sewing! The entire thing is like that.. it's awesome!

This one actually turned out okay, I think the main problem was I used too thick of a fabric. My little strawberry thing really messed up, but don't tell anybody!


Now for the UGLY!:) I really did follow the directions! Apparently I just can't cut four hearts out of cardboard the same size! And if you put that fray check stuff on it, it will make your hand dyed pinks bleed! It said to cut the cardboard bigger than the stitched piece, but next time I'm gonna cut it smaller, cause I'd rather the cording cover a bit of the stitching, then leave those ugly gaps between the outer row and the cording. This is the one where I had to use thicker cording!





The cording was supposed to be opposite on the front and back, so you could easily tie it together.. which I did.. but then when you put them front to back, the cording ended up being on the same side! And I so carefully did it opposite! DUH! :) Lesson learned.. hopefully!

I still have a few more I want to try my hand at finishing! I did finally (I think) figure out my cording drill! Love that little booger! :) Thank goodness for all that .10 DMC! :) Thanks for looking!

Well, here they are!

Okay, no laughing!:) I'll post my best ones first! :) This is by Cherished Stitches, I think I have a link on the side bar. It was supposd to be browns and tans, but I had this great purple fabric! And I love purple, pink, greens! So I changed it all up! It's a little wallet, I still need to add a little button to keep it closed right.

FRONT INSIDE

BACK

What I Learned Today!

I am NOT a finisher! Holy smokes... I am a fairly quick stitcher, at least that's what my stitching friends say, and I had a little pile of stuff I wanted to finish. I've been on a "smalls" kick lately, and they all had great directions. BUT I apparently can NOT cut cardboard equal sizes! Putting a stitched piece over a cardboard piece that has padding on it and trying to connect it to another cardboard piece is not as easy as the directions make it look!

Thankfully cording covers a multitude of sins! My cording is much thicker than on the pictures, because my mistakes are much bigger!:) I have a great pattern that I've stitched, and want to finish, but I'm scared now that I'm not going to be able to do it! It involves FOUR cardboard pieces! Oh dear! I'm afraid I'm gonna ruin it!

I did get two things finished and if you don't look too closely they should be fine. I have another that the glue is drying under my wedding album! (That thing is heavy!) I was afraid I had ruined that piece, but it might just be salvagable afterall!

Hopefully I can post some pictures tomorrow.