This Weeks Crafty Diversions

So this week I've been working on my mother in laws birthday/mothers day present, I should be pretty safe posting it here, not like any one is reading my posts lol. So this is how is looks so far, she really likes apples and owls.  I found a little wire fruit bowl and a set of apple dish towels to line the bottom.  I all so added in some of my hand knit wash cloths.

 And I made up some apple coasters based on the pattern found here, but as I mentioned before I'm not known for following directions well and winged it as usual.  I think they look good enough to be dripped on :).  there is a tutorial for them too, you can find it here. 

I finished another UFO project this week as well.  I like how it turned out, but its a little blah .. I'll have to add some ribbon flowers or some thing to it. I made it from this from the book Making Vintage Bags, I've made a few of the bags from this book.  One of these days I'll buy it, but for now I just keep borrowing it from the library.

I made a set of father and son boxers just for fun, I thought it would be cute.


Watched Pride and Prejudice twice!

I've got just shy of a dozen t-shirt market bags ready to run through the sewing machine destined for the farmers market.

And made this snazzy little number that matches my new curtains.  You can find the tutorial here.  I'm starting to get a bit of a 50's vibe going in my kitchen I'm kinda digging it.  :D



I think thats about it for the little stuff from last week, un till next time!

Dress Shirt Pillow Tutorial

This is one of the projects off my UFO list that I had finally finished ... so here it is ...

1. Start with a dress shirt, mine was a thrift store find has some neat stitching on the front.  Lay it out flat and trim the sleeves and collar off.

I also cut up the side seams, so I have a single layer piece of  "fabric".  I cut the back of the shirt from the sleeves and collar also

2. Now to cut your square, I cut one out of paper just to make life easier but you don't have to.  I lined up my front and back pieces where I wanted the and pinned my template to the pieces, then cut it out.

3.  I made a snazzy boarder with some of the other pieces of the shirt to trim it with, but you could use any pre-made trim you like, a solid colour pipping would look really sharp with a pin-strip shirt. 

4. Attach your trim of choice to the right side of your pillow, making sure that it lies to the inside. (sorry I forgot to take a pic of this step)

5. You are now ready to sew around the out side of your cover.  You don't need to worry about leaving an opening because your shirt buttons will act as the opening for stuffing you pillow in.

6. trim your seam allowances so they are nice and neat, and turn your pillow case the right way out.

7.  Here's the fun part! Stuff you pillow through the opening.  This tends to take a lot of fiddling to get it into the corners and nice and flat.

still working on it .... all most there ....eventually it will go in.. right. 

When it's in and you are happy with it do up the buttons and throw it on your couch or bed!

UFO's and Crafty Diversions

So this year I made a new years resolution to work my way through some of my UFO's (un-finished objects for those of you scratching your heads)  to make room for some of the larger projects I would like do.  So here we are in mid April and I have finished multiple UFO's. 

The First two I'm not willing to tell you how long they had been hiding in my closet, and the pink sun dress is from last summer of course the girl it was made for has out grown it.

I made this great little tote bag and thought it would be cute to make a matching one only smaller.

I love this necklace, you should see it in the sunlight. I made it to wear to a Christmas party but changed my mind, I think I wore red instead.

Now to break the manotany of working on these old projects I had done some crafty diversions in between. Just quick little projects I could finish in a day or two, Like my apron tutorial.  Made these great little bottal cap magnets just so I could play with my glue gun :) , and the the ear bud cozzies, (Tutorail is here) from Dog under my desk.

 

Well I hope I didn't bore you to much .... untill next time.