Projects completed between Sept 20-24

My friend has been coming over on Thursdays to sew and be crafty. She has a set of stuff ponies that she has on her fireplace hearth. She thought they would be cute is they had little beds to lay on and warming blanket to wear like you see horses wear on a cold day. These are what we came up with. After I sewed them I gave them to her to fill the beds as she would like.


She cut these out and I sewed them. They are just little monsters that go with a backpack style bag that she would like to make or get made for her. So far these are the only part of that we have gotten done.



I had an old pair of jeans that got a hole but that I didn't want to just get rid of. I held onto them hoping to get a chance to do something with them. Once my husband's Grandma gave me the last batch of fabric I found a few pieces that I liked and finally got around to making my old jeans into a skirt.



In the fabric from my husband's Grandma was a vest and hat panel that I put together for my youngest daughter. I made them a little big for her right now. With her being on growth hormones she is growing fast so the vest will not be big for long. I just hope that she will get a good amount of wear out of them. As is I think she may only get to wear them for about six months or so, just have to wait and see.

Stoller/biking cart and Stroller Pads

My friend sent me a picture of the stroller/bike cart with the cover that I did for it. Now that I see it I realize that I put the "B" on it the wrong way but she seems to like it the way that it is. It at least faces her correctly and not sideways or anything.

I have now completed recovering a set of stroller seat pads to match. So now her things will match.

Friends Scripture Case

Yesterday I got the zippers put on the purse and little bag for my friend and then made her scripture case. The fabric is some of the stuff my husband's Grandma gave me. The outside is a black on black zebra print, while the inside is a purple denim. She has the smaller books that do not snap closed, the hymn book, and getting the children's hymn book soon so it was made wide enough for all of those. It has a pocket on both the inside and outside and a ribbon to tie onto a pen.

I was working on the scripture case when she got to my house yesterday to visit and be crafty. When she comes over she has been going through fabric and cutting patterns. While I have been sewing or figuring out how to repair things she brings with her. It is fun and I look forward to doing it again soon. In the past two weeks we have been able to get together three times. Hopefully we can make it a weekly thing we do.

Sept 15

This last Saturday I spent a good part of the day doing crafty things. Most of the time was spent cutting and getting things ready to sew and put together. One thing that I did manage to complete were five angels ornaments. My other projects have been prepped but not touched because I was working on a few things for a friend of mine. I finished up the stuff that I had here for her and get to start finishing up some of my projects until she brings me more.




Last Friday I had a friend over to look through my fabric. When she came over she asked if I could try to fix a cover that goes on a cart for kids to ride in while walking or biking. I found some out door fabric that I had and replaced the stuff that was damaged.




While my friend was here she found some fabric that she liked and asked if I could make her a purse out of it. Since I was already working on the cart cover she took it home to cut out the pieces. Yesterday she came back over to sew again and I started sewing the purse. This morning I finished up the purse and made the little bag that can be put inside. The only thing that is needed are zippers for the two bags.




It has been nice having my friend come over to sew and be crafty together. Granted we do not actually get a lot of stuff done. With her two youngest and my two youngest running around needing stuff, usually lunch because of the time we get together. Then we also talk for a while before we even get started. Maybe if we get together enough we will manage to get straight to work and just do all our talking while we do things. Either way works for me because it is just nice getting to together like we have been.

Sept 14

Well I finally got to work yet again on my cross stitch. I have been working on a few projects for a friend of mine. I hope to get the pictures done today so that I can post them.

My husband has suggested that I start taking pictures of my desserts that I have been making lately to post. He thinks they look good and taste even better then they look. I don't know if I will or not but he thinks that I should.

Now off to pick up my friend and two of her kids so that we can sew and be crafty together.

Brag on my Husband

I told my husband that I would brag about him but that I would not put pictures up.

One thing to brag about is that my husbands birthday was Saturday September 4Th. We had a BBQ with another family who also have six kids. He turned thirty-three years old.

The other thing to brag about and said that I would not put pictures up of is...he put in a new toilet in our bathroom over the weekend all by himself. Our bathroom has a lot of blue. The tub, the sink, the old toilet and the tiling on the bottom half of the walls and floor is blue. The old toilet had a broken blot and would tip on you if you were not careful. So we finally got it changed out for a new white toilet. We are slowly toning down the blue in the bathroom.

Time to catch up

It has been a while since I added photos of things that I have been doing. So it is time to catch up on those things.

To start off I decided to add a pillow case to each of the baby packages that I sent to my cousins and their wives. The fabric on the front has a large barn yard picture that says Good Night (for the baby boy) and Sweet Dreams (for the baby girl) in English and Spanish. On the back it has animals and says what they are in both English and Spanish.



Next are a few plastic bag holders. One is long and skinny that hangs on my fringe. The other is nice and fat and currently hangs on the back of the chair I use while sewing. My two youngest us it as a punching bag while I sew. With a large family we need the big and fat one more then the skinny one but I wanted one small enough to having in the kitchen. Plus the cats like to rub on it and play with it while they watch me cook, so I am only tripping over my three dogs while cooking and not the two of them too.



My next item that I made was an apron for my friends daughter. It is a bit big for her right now but I think she will have fun with it. I was flattered when another lady showed up thought that the apron had been professionally done when she saw it. The little girl had handed it to the lady too look at while we were talking. She commented on it when I told my friend that I hope her little girl likes her apron before my little boys and I left.



I also made my oldest daughter a new scripture case. The one that she has been using I have no clue how we ended up with it, but I don't really like it personally. While looking for fabric for another project I came across a sample piece of fabric that was used at a furniture store or something. It reminded me of my daughter and looked like just the right size of fabric to try and make a new scripture case out of. This is the finished case.



The last thing that I have made recently is an outfit for myself. Something I usually do not do, make something for my self. Of course the fabric is stuff given to me, this one from my husband's Grandma. It reminded me of an old dress I use to have and a skirt that I currently have. So I figured that I could try to make a skirt and vest out of it. Considering I came up with the design myself and made it with out a pattern I think I did a good jog. Now I just need to get a nice shirt to wear with it. In the pictures I am wearing a cream shirt with it but today I wore the outfit out with one of my oldest daughters blue shirts. I think it looks better with the blue shirt. I think I need to go shopping to get some new shirts so that I have my own blue shirt and maybe a pink one to go with it too.



I have a few other projects in the work that I will add when they are finished.

Though I have been a very bad girl and avoided my cross stitch yet again. It has been at least a month now that I have not picked it up. So I need to start making sure that I get a little time on that everyday again. I was doing good for a while but was bad a put it aside and not touched it again. I really need to get it done so that I wont have to worry about doing that anymore. It drives me crazy that I am still working on it after all these years. I guess I need help to make sure that I stay on top of it and get it done once and for all.