Past Year Slackin on Posting

Past year and a half has been so crazy!  Finding time to sit down and write anything has been a challenge. Managing my grandfathers affairs since him being placed in a nursing home with Alzheimers, and caring for my failing grandmother until her passing, took up most of 2013. Having that time with them was priceless and I was glad I was able to do it.

Since then, we've had our third grandson, who is just a doll and growing like a weed, youngest daughter finally turned 18 (Woot! little happy dance), and I developed an addiction to making aprons.  Well, aprons, bibs, and kitchen aid mixer covers and hotpads.  They have been super fun and still have so many more I want to make!

I still have a huge box full of Jeans that are just screaming to be made into aprons lol.  With only 5 months till Christmas I definitely need to get cracking!
 Huggles
T

Rag Quilt: One down one more to go!

WooHoo first of two rag quilts is done!

I started off with a night of cutting squares, 12 yards worth!  That's a ton of 8 inch squares!

I alternated  the back of the quilt with the medium and dark blue hoping to get a checker board but it ended up with a two square diagonal alternating colors. It turned out really cool, I couldn't have done it better if I had planned it!

It was a lot of work but when they are finished it's totally worth the work!

Here is the tutorial that I used for this one ( click here).  She does a great job on this tutorial.  Only difference is I didn't us batting, I just used  flannel for the top and flannel for the bottoms.  Oh yeah I told ya all that in the previous post, lol .  But anywho these are great quilts and don't take up alot of time. I know the boys will love these for Christmas.  When I get the second one done I'll make some special tags to put on one of the squares on back so they will always remember grandma made them with love special just for them!

Until next time...Huggles T

Rag Quilt Journey Begins

I decided the other day after finishing my first rag quilt that I loved how it turned out so much that I'm going to make the boys each one for christmas.  This time I'm going to use the right materials. 

This one I did with top layer cotton print, fleece for the backing.  Where I messed up is I thought "Oh the scraps of InsulBright I have left over will be perfect".  Buzz! Wrong answer, thanks for playin!  The InsulBright was just too stiff and thick for it for a baby blanket, plus the thick layers was extremely hard to sew through.  So, it will be come my lap blankie, grant you its super warm and the fleece is so soft, but just not cuddly.

My crafty buddy Bambi thinks it's cuddly and when I shooed him off this is the look I got! 

Pitiful. I know I'm a horrible mamma :( lol  he's just a boob!

The fabric store had all it's fleece and flannels on sale for the Labor Day holiday, so me and hubbies mom raided them lol.  This journey will entail fleece and flannel and no InsulBright lol I'll keep that for the hot pads and casserole carriers!

Here's what goodies I brought home today. I think they are gonna turn out super cute!

Now that they are all washed, I'm off to cut the squares! I'll keep ya posted!

Huggles T

It Came Out Jammie

Well this morning, after making the nectar of gods (Iced special dark mocha), being extra quiet not to wake up Peanut I got the pattern finished, fine tuned and cut out. 

 Eventually she woke up and sat on the desk thinking she was being smart and interrupting what I was doing.  I let her think she was accomplishing her task, smooched and loved on her till she drooled and then carried on with assembly.  

She did her help by cleaning off the pencils, ruler, fabric scraps, and random pieces of paper that were scattered on the desk.  Now if I can teach her to put them away instead of  fwapping them on the floor we'll be in business lol.  So with Peanuts help my little project came out Jammie!

I'm not the best picture taker but you get the idea lol.

If you would like to see a tutorial on this or any item let me know in comments!

Bib for Bambino is done!

A Voila!

I can honestly say this was fun to make!

Bias tape really puts the finishing touches on things.  There are a couple of tricks to it, it took me a long time to find the tricks, so I used to do a whole lot of cussin. LOL

If you would like to see how I learned how to do it click HERE.

She does a cute video, kina korny but I got a giggle out of it.  

Oh I almost forgot to show you the back. I even learned how to put a wee snap on it too! Yay Me!

As you can see on bias tape I resist the urge to be a rebel.  I pin baby pin!  Makes it so much easier to not have to do any fighting on the machine and you just tip toe through the tulips and you come out smelling like flowers!

Prep Day! Bibs for bambinos

Here in Texas we have Tax Free days and today is one of them! Yay! So, since I didn't have every thing I needed for bibs, today would be a perfect day to do it.  Poked hubby a few times to wake him from his early morning nap and shuffled him out the door to Wally World (Walmart).  Luckily we got there before every one got out of church, cause its a stinking mad house in there by noon.

If I'm trying a new pattern for the first time I like to use the material I pick up for under 2 dollars a yard.  Some times not the best quality, or the best prints, but if it turns out and  is something great on 2 dollar material, it will be spectacular on the designer material.  Today was a pretty good day for the selection, found some super cuteness. Of course, it takes forever to rummage through the stacks of sloppy bolts that previous customers just tossed back up.  I have to really restrain my self from tidying up, cause they aren't paying me to do it. My old saying....Messy desk, messy head.

So here is what treasures I hauled home today lol.

I also picked up some terry cloth towels too for the back of the bibs for $1.95 each which is a little cheaper than buying it in bulk.  

That's one more perk for the kids going back to school!

A lot of times they will have fat quarters in the clearance bin and pick them up for 50 cents, normally they are 97 cents which isn't too bad. I get these to make Bias Tape.  Forget paying almost 4 dollars for it pre-made, I'll save up that money to get the fancy smanchy machine that does it for me lol. Okay, so I mention the fat quarters because I found this awesome tutorial on how to make 5 yards of bias tape out of it. Awesome! No more boring trim! (does the little pointy finger happy dance)  You can check the tutorial out here.  While your there she's got some other great tutorials too so check em out.

It really is simple I did it and only cussed once. Sorry mom but I stuck my finger with a pin. lol

Pretty!

Now for the fun part getting it all pressed out. (not really but its worth it to have cute!)  This part is what the machine does for you. So yeah saving up for it!

TaDum! All ready to go! 5 yards of super cuteness for .97 cents!

Now it's definately time for a fresh cup a iced mocha and a stroll around the yard to work of the wee bit of numb bum I got going on lol!

Catch ya on the flip side!