‘Mother’s Day Wishes’ by sewtara
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Monthly Archives: April 2012
Stitch swapping
A while back I signed up for Wild Olive‘s stitch swap. It was round robin style so the person I sent to isn’t the person who sent to me, which is a fun way to do it and keep it all secret.
Here’s what I made for my partner.
It’s a copy of a piece I made myself a while back. I just changed the colours to fit her favourites.
And here are the surprises I got.
I love how she wrote along the hoop, it’s a nice touch and will stay with the art.
DIY Spring door decor
I took our little snowman decoration down a while back, since we had a pathetic amount of snow this year, and realized over the weekend our door looked bare. Thinking of spring I put together this cute scrappy little door decor.
I gathered up some fabric scraps, fleece scraps, and some baker’s twine. I reused the dowel hangy thing from a pennant someone had made me year’s ago for my classroom door. It had my maiden name on it so I cut it off and kept the wood bit around knowing I’d find a way to use it.
I chose cool coloured fabrics and made sure the fleece was blue as well. I wanted it to look a little unfinished at times. I cut 2 pieces of fabric for each raindrop and 1 piece of fleece. Sandwiched them together and zig zag stitched the baker’s twine in place on each raindrop with my sewing machine.
It’s really pretty hanging on the door and it’s fun when the wind gently blows the raindrops around a bit.
Posted in DIY, repurposing, scraps, sewing, tutorial-ish
Tagged blue, door hanging, green, raindrops, scraps, spring decor
NYC loot
Cute notebooks, far too much washi tape, amazing fabrics and some silly cards.
This KOKKA fabric was $20/yard but I was smitten. I picked up 2 yards. No project in mind but I’ll find one I’m sure. Most likely a bag or tote . . . who am I kidding? I’ll make a bag or tote.
Posted in fun finds, papercrafts, sewing
Tagged fabric, kokka, NYC, shopping, washi tape
Friday Create Along
Well it’s sort of half a Create Along really since I have no reveal. This week I’m just announcing the next project. In honour of having NapKitten Patterns here as a sponsor this month I’d like to take this opportunity to tackle another one of her patterns.
I’m going to attempt this Cute Hamburger. Previously I’ve made the wallet (in my first Create Along!) and the iPhone sleeve, here’s my version.
I love the fabrics she uses and the whole Japanese inspired design of her patterns. Hope you’ll join me!
Posted in createalong, fun finds, sewing
Tagged create-along, createalong, napkitten, pattern, sewing, wallet
Hello from my bed
I got home Sunday and I’ve pretty much been useless since.
Monday I was just tired from the trip.
Tuesday I felt off and came home at noon, fed the kids and had a nap before I could carry on with my day.
Wednesday morning at work was a blur. I came home and went straight to bed and woke up around 5.
I’m not sure what the kids did in that time, I remember putting a movie on, and them asking to go outside, I was so out of it.
Last night was terrible, fever, chills, sweats, many naps . . . I called in sick today and counted on having a couch day all to myself while the kids were at the sitter’s. But as things got worse I headed to the clinic. Which led to the lab and ate up most of my day.
They think I picked up some crazy stomach bug while in NYC. Silly public bathrooms and airplanes! I just took the first pill of my prescription and now I’m going to have that couch time while the kids play outside and hope it starts working ASAP!
I’ve even been too sick to blog, so you know it must be bad! So my apologies for disappearing, promise I’m still here and I’ll be sharing more Etsy/NYC fun once I can handle it.
Posted in uncategorized
My weekend in Instagrams
I was extensively using the map apps on my phone and it kept dying while I was wandering NYC. Here are some of the photos I snapped over the weekend.
What I thought was the Brooklyn Bridge, but it’s actually the Manhattan Bridge. DUMBO = Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass. What do I know, I’m Canadian!
Where the magic happens.
We walked a little bit from the Etsy offices to eat in this great ‘event space‘ the photo doesn’t do it justice, it was beautiful. It sort of hurts my brain that this place is in business because it sits there empty, but it was quite lovely. All brick and unfinished ceilings with pipes and such and it over looked a cute little patio/park area.
The trees were already budding, that’s not happening here at home yet, and it was really pretty in Red Hook Brooklyn where I was staying. Even with the drizzley rain.
Fun fabrics at the Brooklyn General Store. It was awesome in there, the displays were great and the fabric selections were super fun. I didn’t take many pictures in there, I didn’t want to be that camera yielding weirdo.
Hoop art wall at Purl Soho. Luckily for my wallet, they seemed to have loads of yarn and I was able to resist what fabric they did have. Some really lovely stuff though, and some great kits and scrap packs.
I was in awe in Kinokuniya the Japanese book store. I literally parked myself on the floor in the kid’s section and looked at a pile of sewing books and tried to narrow it down. I headed to the cash with 2 choices but then realized they have magazines upstairs. But I resisted.
I snuck in some clothes shopping for myself, I got this cute collared shirt at Forever 21 since we don’t have that store in Canada. I also hit Old Navy, and got teased by my hubby for it since we have one moments away from our house, but $5 t-shirts how could I resist those deals!
I’m still recovering from the 13 or so hours of walking I did on Saturday, I honestly did not stop. I promise to share some of the great things I learned, more stories and new people I met.
DIY kitty toy
I shared this post last week on Meremade and in case you have a feline friend in your house and missed the post over there I thought I’d share it here.
With loads of crafty supplies and some cats in the house I thought up this fun DIY craft that the feline in your life will appreciate. This project can be hand-stitched or made with a sewing machine. It’s also very scrap friendly and you should be able to find all these supplies in your crafty cupboard.
You’ll need:
– fabric scraps
– ribbon (cut in 4 pieces, one 6 inch and 3 3 inch pieces)
– stuffing (polyfill or scraps cut up really tiny)
optional
– 2 buttons
– catnip
First cut out a head and tail shape from your scrap. Sew around leaving a small opening for stuffing.
I cut up a small scrap of flannel into tiny squares to act as filling. Stuff the head with filling and add your catnip. Tuck one end of the long ribbon piece into the opening and securely attach it with hand stitches or using your zig zag stitch.
Sew the tail piece leaving a small hole for stuffing. Stuff it and attach the ribbon just like you did for the head.
Tie the smaller pieces of ribbon to the fish ‘body’ so they look like little bones.
Sew the buttons on the head for little x’ed out dead eyes.
Ta Da! All finished. Now toss the toy to your favourite kitty and sit back to enjoy the silliness.
