Office quilt done! ...finally!

I started this quilt several months ago and I finished most of it, but then it sat waiting for binding for several more months and I finally finished it last week. I don't like how I quilted this one but it is what it is now. (Usually I like my meandering stitch close together and small, this one I rushed through and it ended up big and loopy looking.)

I made it to go in our office, it has matching pillows.

It has very happy colors.

Another quilt...

Robert calls this quilt the honeycomb quilt.

It was super easy and one of my favorite to sew! 

Kitchen Chairs

I was getting tired of non kid friendly fabric on our kitchen chairs so after much searching I found new fabric that both Robert and I agreed on and recovered them.

A New Adventure

So I had this (crazy) idea that we should switch to cloth diapers! So I did some research and let me say this, these are not your mother's cloth diapers!

No pins! No plastics! No folding!

Ahhh....New Fabric!

I have been patiently waiting for JoAnn's to have a 50% off sale on their clearance fabric...I know you may be thinking, they are already on clearance--just buy it! But I'm a bit cheap and try not to spent too much on fabric. Don't worry the wait was totally worth it! I bought some really cute fabric for pretty cheap; $1 to $2 per yard!

I can't wait to begin sewing a lap size quilt out of these four fabrics.  The bottom fabric will be the back of the quilt.  It's going to be a gift, I hope they like it!! It will be lightweight and machine quilted.

I'm excited that I found two more (pink and blue) to match my color scheme I picked out about a year ago. Someday I'll have enough to start my quilt.  It takes awhile to get enough to make a queen size quilt when you only buy remnants or 50% off clearance fabrics. 

I just finished this quilt top and I'm contemplating what to do for the back. I want it to be interesting to look at too so I can flip it over if I want a change. My goal with this quilt was to use up as many scraps as possible but I didn't want to do a traditional square patchwork quilt. I cut all the colored pieces 4 inches wide but I varied the height, it made it kind of challenging to put together but I love the randomness of it.  When it's finished it will be queen size and machine quilted in lines parallel to the colored stripes.  Robert keeps reminding me that we live in Arizona where quilts are unnecessary for 3/4 of every year.

This was the first quilt that I machine quilted (all others before this one I tied with yarn).  I am now addicted to machine quilting!  The fabric puckering and puffing up just makes me smile. The pattern is out of the book called The Modern Quilt Workshop and is called Love Beads if I remember correctly. 

Pool Pictures

Wondering yet how are we taking such fun pictures in our pool?
Here it is, the best waterproof camera case that $35 can buy you on ebay; made by My Aqua Case:

In the past we have spent money on disposable waterproof cameras but always forget to use them or to have the film developed and then there was always the hassle of scanning in all the pictures since everything we do is digital these days. So this year I spent the money and hoped this worked and it does!! We are having such a fun time taking pictures in the pool. And the best part is we can take thousands of pictures and if only 4 work out it's okay because we are using our digital camera, not a film camera.

So if you go swimming a lot like us and love to take pictures but don't want to risk ruining your nice digital camera, perhaps this is the thing you too have been looking for. Okay enough with the infomercial...Enjoy some more pictures. :)

Refashions

So I have a friend who blogs about the refashions and crafts she does and it inspired me to do some of my own.  :)  Here's what I've been up to:

I am beginning to need maternity clothes and WILL NOT pay $50 for pants that won't be worn very long...okay really I won't pay $50 for pants ever!  So I found this tutorial:  Maternity Pants Tutorial on how to turn regular pants into maternity pants, it looked easy enough so since it was 50% off day at Goodwill my three kids and I took a little trip.  I found 2 shorts that were cute, modest and would have fit without the baby bump.  So on to JoAnns to buy stretchy fabric.  It took about 30 minutes to cut off the top and sew on the stretchy band; it was so easy and I LOVE them.  Every crafty pregnant mama should try this!!  (Sorry no picture, I wasn't in the mood to take a picture of my belly today.)

While I was there I also found a men's shirt to try out this tutorial: The Shirt Dress Tutorial  Once I got the pattern drawn up I was able to sew up the entire dress in about an hour!  I LOVE IT!!  Instead of sewing the waist band on top I cut the dress and sewed it in and with that was able to make the skirt fuller.  To make the skirt fuller I cut the entire bottom of the shirt off and gathered it then sewed it onto the waist band.  The shirt I got was strait across the bottom so I didn't even have to hem it!  I removed the buttons from the left over part of the shirt and added them in between the original buttons because for a little girl's dress they were too far apart.  (I didn't make new button holes just sewed them on-Button holes get very time consuming)

I can't wait to do another one!  Sleep in fear Robert's dress shirts because you are next...you know which one's you are...the one with the little stain on the collar and the one with the stain on the sleeve...You will soon be a lovely little girl dress!!

Happy Crafting!!