Friday, November 21, 2014

Sea Glass

A couple more sea glass pendants that I made :)
 
sea glass pendant




sea glass pendant


Saturday, November 15, 2014

Sea themed Fabric book! (pg 9 & 10)

In case you missed it:
Sea themed fabric book! (pg 5 & 6)
Sea themed fabric book! (pg 7 & 8)

Here it is, the end of the fabric book!  For pages 9 & 10 the shapes were attached to the pages using iron on adhesive, and the eye details and words were done in puffy paint.


Starfish - page 9
 
sea themed fabric book - starfish


Angel fish - page 10
 

sea themed fabric book - angel fish
 
I stitched 3 buttons on this page to look like bubbles, and to give a different texture.

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Knit mug koozie!

I just love knitting projects that you can complete in a short time & don't require too much thought.  (as opposed to the baby blanket I have been working on for.... YEARS haha, that's another story) Last year I was really into making these while watching TV at night.  They go pretty quick! 
 
knit koozie
 
 
This was my first time doing a cable stitch, and it was not as scary as I thought it would be :)

Saturday, November 8, 2014

Sea themed Fabric book! (pg 7 & 8)

In case you missed it:
 
Here are pages 7 & 8!  (next week I will post the final 2 pages, so be sure to come back to check it out!)
 
Page 7 - the Seahorse
 
Sea horse - sea themed fabric book
 
 The scrap fabrics I used on the seahorse were from: this spring jacket, and this pirate costume skirt, and the other fabric is from a pair of pajama pants I made.
 
All of the shapes making up the sea horse were attached to each other and then to the page with iron on adhesive.
 
 
Page 8 - the Stingray
 
stingray - sea themed fabric book
This gray material has gotten a lot of use!  I can't remember how many yards of it I bought but I made this fleece pullover, this fleece jacket and this cat bed.  I still have a lot of scraps from this fabric left, so I imagine you will see it pop up again :)
 
The flannel material used to make the pages was leftover fabric from this cut chenille blanket
 
 

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Cut Chenille Blanket

I absolutely love cut chenille blankets!
 
cut chenille baby blanket - whale fabric
 
They are so much fun, so whenever I forget just how long they take to make (a loooooong time), I start another one haha.  After making a couple of these, I gave in and purchased an Olfa Chenille Cutter, and I must say... It is awesome. If only I'd have gotten one sooner :)
 
For this blanket, I chose to do a decorative stitch in the shape of circles to attach the binding.
 
I have stacks of fabric set aside to make a couple more of these, maybe over my winter break I'll do another one!
 
**Check out the fun use of my leftover fabric from this blanket as the cover of this Fabric texture book**


Saturday, November 1, 2014

Sea themed Fabric Book! (pg 5 & 6)

Check out pages 1 & 2 of the cloth book, pages 3 & 4 of the cloth book
**update: pages 7 & 8 of the book here, pages 9 & 10 of the book**
 
Page 5 - the Crab
 
fabric texture book - crab
 
Does the red fabric look familiar?  It's a scrap piece from Hubby's Prince William costume from Halloween a couple years ago!
 
 
 Page 6 - the Octopus!
fabric texture book - octopus
Fabric scraps from a dress I made way back when
 
It's so much fun actually getting to use scrap fabric for a project, I love going through and remembering all the projects I've worked on in the past :)
 
Pages 6 & 7 will be posted soon!