Pillow Talk

I went on a pillow making frenzy today. I finally got my other piped pillow done, and made some Easter pillows, not all for me. I love this fabric! I have enough for one more small pillow I think. Once I finish the "20 minute skirt". I will resume making some more pillows I think. I am making the first try at the skirt tonight....I will post my success or failure tomorrow.....keep those fingers crossed!

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Piping hot....not really

So I made this pillow....FINALLY. I bought this fabric and piping like a year ago. I have enough to make a second one but it was harder than I thought on to making the Mardi grad pillows I was supposed to do with the cousins this weekend....I forgot the plug to my sewing machine! Can you believe that! I am going to make it for them....we did however start cutting out t-shirts for Steff for her T-Shirt quilt.

I have a couple projects on the wanna do this month list, but the most important is finishing off the rest of my mom's deer quilt, I'm like 75% done and it feels so good to be so close!!


Take a look at the finished piped pillow.

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Not exactly sewing....

This past weekend my sister and cousin and I got together to do some crafts.  We made a mardi gras wreath based on one of the many ideas found on pintrest.  Ours came out AWESOME.  It cost around $30 to make, but all the ones that are out there for sale are about $60 and higher.

There is a tutorial out there.
http://sew-inlove.blogspot.com/2011/02/mardi-gras-bead-wreath-tutorial.html

These are the highlights from us trying to make it.  It was a great time!

Next up for the crazy crafting cousins.....T-shirt quilt....which involves me teaching these two how to sew----this should be an interesting one!

Here is how ours went down.

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So I made a tea cozy!

I actually made 2 one didn't fit at all the other is just so frigging cute I might be tempted to keep it!

What do you think...sellable? It's really heavyweight cotton for the outside fabric and regular cotton inside. I suppose it is reversible! And it's got quilt batting inside to keep you're tea cozy warm!

Also are the pics of my two holiday pillows. :)

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Christmas Time

Hello all,

I have been sewing up quite a bit of things.  I made a new pillow and am working on figuring out how to make a roll pillow.  And all the other things are gifts for people.  I have been taking photos but sadly I cannot post until after I exchange some of them.  Stay tuned though I will be posting my Christmas pillows and my next re-invention of the tea cozy, possibly to sell on etsy....who knows.

Happy Holidays :)

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Day of the Dead rehash

So i bought this awesome fabric from superbuzzy.com  and I had some left, also some extra brown velvet from my cape adventure.  I made two things that actually cameout somewhat respectable.

Day of the Dead Bag

and


Day of the Dead Tea Cozy

The tea cozy was extremely easy to make and I am so pleased with the results.  I am sending it to my cousin Mary to be a beta tester.  I don't have a porcelian tea pot, and when I drink tea its usually from our Keurig, so I thought the beta testing should be done by an avid tea drinker.

I was thinking, prompted by a quite a few people telling me to open an Etsy store, that maybe I should.  Maybe one day it will bring in so much income I wouldn't have to work full time haha.  Since I don't think my skills are up to par just yet, like I still think my purse came out sloppy---Billy tells me I'm just overly critical---I thought tea cozy's would be a great way to make really easy, very neat looking projects that can fetch a few bucks....if there is actually a market.  Stay tuned.



 Oh and since the wedding is over is a photo of what I made the girls to go with their dresses.  I hope they liked them I had lots of fun making them :)

On another note...I am so excited my christmas present this year is to go take a clothes making private sewing lessing at The Sewing Studio in NYC.  I am just as giddy as a school girl to get to go do this!

Anyway that's all the sewing I have done these past few days.  ACTUALLY that's a lie!  I made pine filled sachets as the favor for my sister's cookie party I can't attend.  They were a lot more work than I anticipated but they came out so friggin cute.  I hope all the guests enjoy them---they smell so good I didn't want to give them to her!  I will ask her to take some photos for the blog.  They were really easy to make.  Perhaps I will make a tutorial on them, its a 4-5 step process and you can make each for less than 2 bucks how awesome is that?

Happy Tuesday!

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All Saint's Day

Hello world,

Well today was my dad's bday...Happy B-day to him...unfortunately we aren't able to make it back up to NJ till this weekend.

Anyway...didn't get a chance to sew today, but I bought the fabric for my sister's project yesterday at Joann....I think I'm in love with that store. It was cheap too with my coupons!

Well I thought I'd upload a few photos of the few projects I completed that I never blogged about.

This first one is of the bags I made the bridesmaids....I never took a completed picture!  I'm so mad because they came out super cute...I had a different fancy button for each girl.

There is my dear husband posing in the vest and shirt ... with a hood (that I had to figure out how to add and adjust to a pattern....when I never had sew from a pattern before)! I think it came out spiffy for my first go around with a pattern....I already realized things I can do better and faster and all sorts of things, I also got dear hubby to get me an eyelet maker because the pattern called for it...a win for me...it was at least a good learning experience. I will have to find out what pattern # I used and put it on here....it actually wasn't that hard and there were a lot of cool looking variations.

Here's me in the cape I made that had a hood and I lined it with fabric that matched my costume, and apple juice ;) ....I plan to sew myself a costume like I am wearing for next year's renn fest.....lets see if I can make that happen.....

There is us...yes that's me I chopped off and dyed my hair...this is at Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween party in Magic Kingdom....for our honeymoon :)

Alright I'm exhausted....Goodnight!

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