Pom Pom Pillow!

Hooray for Friday! I'm off to the zoo with my little one this morning! Before I head out I wanted to say that I'm guest posting on Sew Can She today and showing off my lovely new Pom Pom Pillow.  Head on over to the SCS blog to read all about it!

Have a great weekend!!!

Quick Summer Cutt-offs Get a Touch of Fabric!

I love wearing Jeans!  Love them! About this time of year I like to chop my favorite fading pair off so can enjoy them as shorts.  We are experiencing an unusually cool spring here in Florida but it is about to get HOT.  And when it gets that hot skirts are best, but for now I'll wear my cut-offs.  This morning I decided combine my beloved cut-off Jeans with another love of mine, Fabric!  I added a little bias trim to the bottom to keep that fraying in check.

 

Just a little cute. Just a little pop.   Fun right?  

There are loads of tutorials out there on how to apply bias tape.  I think it would be cute if the bias was wider too...What do you think?

Happy Mother's Day!!

Happy Mother's Day to my wonderful Mother!! 

She inspires me to be creative, try anything, be resourceful, worry less about the small stuff, and work hard.  She is such a wonderful example to me and has helped me so much in my life.

  She deserves credit for all my creative abilities.  Since this blog is a place for me to show off my stuff, I thought tonight I'd show off my Mom and just give you a peek at the inspiring lady I grew up with.  

 My mom is one talented lady.  Her skill for solving a problem, fixing a mistake, or making do with what she has is amazing.  She is an artist. I grew up in a house decorated with her oil paintings.  Painting at a family outing to the mountains one summer. 

  She has designed doll clothes her whole life, well at least for as long as I can remember. She has developed her own doll pattern company, Nedra's Fully Illustrated Patterns and has over 60 patterns available. She currently designs for the doll artist Diana Effner. Here are just a few of Mom's pattern designs.

Her workroom is full of anything and everything you would need to create something fabulous.  Of course she doesn't just stick to doll clothes.  She can make anything!  She made my wedding dress, and dresses for all my high school dances.   She makes the majority of the gifts she gives to her grandkids.

 The last several years she has picked up designing jewelry and has a little side business selling it at craft fairs with my sister.  Oh how I wish I lived closer to them.  They met up with me for our Quilt Market trip last Fall.. what fun!

 She and my father are avid gardeners and grow beautiful flowers and vegetables in their park-like yard.

 Anyway thanks for letting me show off my Mom just a little. I am so grateful for her!

Happy Mother's Day to you Mom! I love you!

Scrappy Pillows for my Bed

While I was in the middle of hosting my Soccer Mom series I needed a mindless project one Sunday afternoon so I dumped out all of my scraps triangles that were cut off from my Herringbone quilt blocks and stitched them up into pillows.   

The pretty pillow my sister made me y goes perfectly with them.

What happened to the quilt? you might be thinking.  Well, it's not quilted yet. I tend to have machine quilting problems and I just couldn't quite face it, so it is sitting in my unfinished projects box.

And then I got to thinking all those bright colors just might be a little too crazy for my bed.   I was walking through Target and spotted this lovely soft muted purple quilt for just $35 and I knew this would work better.  Don't worry I will still be finishing and using that beautiful Herringbone.

The pillow top is quilted along the seam lines and I tried out a button closure on the back.  It's not perfect but it works and I am happy my buttonholes turned out. 

I have a couple of more pillow ideas floating around in my head.  Here's to hoping to get to them soon!

Progress and Some "Crazy" Letters

I have been doing a little more sewing and I made another crazy quilt block for the SewCanShe sewalong.  Here are some phone pictures from this weekends sewing. 

Then I got creative and used the same idea to make letters.

 I found a few blocks left over from the I spy quilt I made a while ago and sewed them up into a baby blanket for a friend.  I was a little short for the backing so these letters were the perfect fill in.

I was also really happy that my machine quilting worked out with out too many stitches skipped.

Hooray for another finished project!

Giveaway winners!

Happy Friday! Are you ready to find out who won the Soccer Mom/Sew Sweetness Giveaway?  

A big thank you to all for entering!  The three winners are #111 Rachel Newson, #12 Caroline Critchfield, and #49 Tina McDonald.  I promise this was random!  Please check your emails for more details on how to claim your prizes.  You ladies have a lot of fun sewing ahead of you!  For those who didn't win, head on over to Sara's Pattern shop to see all the great handbag patterns she has to offer.

You might want to add one to your weekend sewing plans!

Over and out!

My Sewalong Crazy Block

Do you want to see what's under my machine today?

As you may know, Sew Can She is doing another Sewalong! This time it is for Crazy quilt blocks inspired by beautiful Victorian quilts like these.  My mom has this mini crazy quilt hanging in her house.  It is made of beautiful scraps of velvet and silks, with intricate embroidery around each piece.

Anyway, here are my scraps for the sewalong.  Not near as luscious as silks and velvet, but bright and colorful nonetheless.

 This morning I turned them into this.  

I was about to say you can't really mess it up and then I found a edge in the center that didn't quite get caught in the seam.  oops!

Oh well! I am going to sew 4 of these and turn them into a new pillow!

What's under your machine today? Are you sewing along too?