Purrrrdy Coasters

Today I found these purdy linen coasters on Noodlehead. 

 

Aren't they gorgeous!  Immediately my brain tried to remember what fabric scraps I have waiting to be used for something wonderful, and I couldn't think of any.  Blank, complete blank!  

My next thought was, well then I have an excuse to go out and buy some new fabric, or cut into some of my stash, but I realized that I just registered for some really neat coasters at Ten Thousand Villages, so I really shouldn't be making myself coasters. Below are the coasters.

 Then I thought, I could make some coasters for Christmas gifts.  Next thing my brain went to my friend Vanessa (one of my bridesmaids) who made herself some sweet artwork out of quilting fabric.  One of the fabrics was absolutely amazing and I wanted it!  The other day when I was in the store I found a roll of it on clearance and I so very badly wanted to buy it, but I didn't because I was trying very hard not to be a copycat.  But, I could use that fabric to make her some coasters!  How cool would that be!  Hopefully someone else hasn't snatched it up yet! Off to fabricworld I go!

New Desk

So I found a desk online for $20!  So I snatched it up. It needs some TLC.  The plan is to fix the drawer sliding things, add a coat of paint and find some new handles/knobs for it! 

It will be my sewing machines new home!  Currently my sewing machine is resting on a board that is between 2 green storage towers, see here,  so I'm excited to have an actual desk for it!

I also realized by looking at those old pictures that my room has changed in the last few months, little details!  Maybe I'll snap a few pics again soon!

The cutest ear warmers ever!

Delia at Delia Creates made this super cute ear warmer and I love it!  To read up about this beautiful thing, and see the step by step how to, click here!  I'm definitely going to try this out soon and then post my own version!  Go visit her at her blog today!

Quilt brainstorming

I have two quilts that I am trying to brainstorm for, the first a baby quilt and the second a quilt for myself.

Firstly and most importantly I am going to concentrate on the baby quilt, as my friends baby is due to arrive any day now!  I made this baby quilt back in March/April, and I have quite a bit of left over fabric, so I'm thinking of using the fabric, but I'm unsure of which pattern to make.  Some beautiful ideas are:

Colour Brick Quilt By Stitched in Colour

Then there is this cute one by Amy's Creative Side

 

This one by Pin. Press. Sew

And then last night as I was laying there thinking..thinking..thinking some more...and then some more thinking, I just couldn't turn my brain off, I thought to myself, I could do some simple squares with scripture references on them, referring to a word that describes us as God's children, eg/ Loved ~ John 3:16 or something along those lines.  So then I was trying to come up with words and references, and I found some, but I need to do some more digging/brainstorming.  I like the idea, but I'm not quite sure!

I also have some really cute animal ideas that I've seen on some blogs, like this:

From Lovely Little Things blog.

I was reminded of these when I read Katie's blog, The Bright Life.  She posted this super cute owl/squirrel bookends pic. 

 

 

How cute!  I went to the etsy site and found all sorts of inspiring little creatures!  So now I'm back to loving that idea!  I just don't have much time, so I'm hesitant about taking on such a big project with such little amount of time!  We'll see what I come up with!

Day Off and PJ Pants

So I have the day off today from working the weekend!  My goal is to actually start and maybe complete sewing pj pants for myself.  I bought some purple flannel a few months ago and finally pre-shrunk it and now I'm ready to go!  The main reason for sewing my own is because pj pants are always too short for my long legs :P  Wish me luck!  Pics to come!

Finished Baby Blanket!

So here are the pics I promised of my first quilt ever that I made for Brian and Melissa's baby! 

The quilt is FINISHED...

Well, mostly!  I still need to stitch on a few buttons and do the actual quilting, but that won't take too long, and I can work on that when I'm in Calgary!  So that's really a big relief!  Today was my last day to work on it and it was complete at 9:14pm!  I took pictures, but they are on my laptop at home, so you'll have to wait till I'm back from my vacation to see them! 

My first quilt!

So, lately I've been more into sewing!  Since I brought my sewing machine here and made my sewing nook I've been more inspired, and had more time!  So about 2 weeks ago I started on a baby quilt for one of my close friends!  They don't know the gender the baby and since it is their first I figured I would go with "gender neutral" colours/themes!  I'm very excited about this quilt, being my first one.  It also has a lot of hand sewing details which makes it easy to take along almost anywhere to work on!  I'm finished almost all the hand sewing, hopefully I can finish that up tonight/tomorrow and then it's just sewing the squares together and finishing touches!  Here's a picture of the pattern I'm using!  I am hoping to take some pictures this weekend of mine and will have them posted asap!

My Sewing Nook!

A few weeks ago I brought my sewing machine from my parents house to mine and I had it sitting on my very small dining table because I didn't have a desk/space for it.  Yesterday I had a brilliant idea that I would use my green storage towers to keep all my sewing supplies.  I continued thinking and thought I could easily place a board across to bridge the two towers and create a "desk".  So, that's exactly what I did, and it worked out smashingly!  I found this big bulletin board at my office that wasn't being used and now voila, my sewing nook!  I'm quite impressed with it.  Now I just want to sew sew sew!

The first picture is a view from my door looking into my room, the second is my nook :)