Beading

While visiting my Mom this summer my 13 year old daughter discovered a love of beading. I found the same love, and now we have something that we do together. I "lifted" a ton of supplies from my Mom, and I discover shopping on ebay. I got in a decent amount of supplies and then split my goodies from Mom's with Kara. This morning I taught her how to thread a needle, and tie a knot in the end, and to tie off at the end of a bead strand. I know she was excited and has already started beading. I am hoping that we can work together on some projects. I am really happy that she enjoys beading as much as I do. My other 2 younger daughters enjoy beading as well, but they are not yet old enough to have their own supply, but it won't be long!

I made a pretty pillow!

I am so proud of myself, I made a pretty pillow almost all by myself lol. I finished all the piecing last night before bed, and when I got home from work I cut and sewed the backing onto my "quilted" top. Then I stuffed it full! So here is the finished pillow.

I now have a pretty good understanding of the mistakes I made, and there are a few. Hopefully next time I make a pillow there will be fewer mistakes. ;)

I am making a pillow,,, I think

With my 4 inch quilting squares that I have, I laid them out in an alternating pattern and sewed them together. I made a square 4 blocks across and 4 blocks high. I think I am going to sew them to a piece of muslin and then stuff it with fluff. The end result should be a cool pillow. I'll post the finish pillow later.

I got a couple goodies in the mail. I bought some 4 inch quilting squares, some buttons, some beads and some elephant fabric. My oldest daughter loves elephants. The buttons and beads have not yet arrived. But I thought I'd share what came in. I have some ideas on what I am going to do with some of it, but I learned to actually draw out the fabric measurements to make sure it is what I can use. I am very happy with the quality and quantity of the fabrics.






Have a great night!

Little birdie

I decided to finish one of my birthday postcards today. I am have a little bit of issues with my sewing machine still, so I went very slow and worked through the problems. I will have to send an email or make a well placed call for help if my problems persist. I tried sewing around the bird and I didn't do so bad. I know I will get better the more I sew. I am mailing this card either tomorrow or Monday.

New Projects

I have begun 2 projects, and finished 1. Because I am new to blogger and am having some difficulties with it I am not sure where the pictures will end up.
All of the projects are fabric post cards with an applique in the center and I will bead them to finish them before mailing. I used fusible web to secure all my pieces together. I started with my fabric, my applique, the peltex, and the card stock. I made a few mistakes that made this process difficult. I fused the applique to the fabric, using an iron to heat set the webbing. I then fused the fabric to the peltex and put the second layer of fusible webbing on the back. I usually wait until I am done embelishing my projects to put the second fusible webbing on the back, but today I just wasn't thinking straight. So the beading process was very difficult. I decided to wait until my next day off to finish these projects.


I finished and mailed a just to say hello to my soon to be mother in law, she likes bears. I traced the image of a bear on a piece of muslin, then I used crayola crayons and colored the fabric. I used an iron set on the cotton setting to heat set the crayons. It is important to color lightly, and have several layers. Cover the top and bottom of the muslin with parchment paper so the wax does not get on anything you don't want it to. I then cut out the bear, and used heat set fusible webbing to secure the bear to my tie dyed peltex. I embelished the edge of the bear with beads. Finally I used a straight stitch about a quarter of an inch from the edge of the postcard, I also cut the very edge with pinking shears. I hope she likes it.


Have a great night. When I finish these projects I will post the finished post cards.

Learning to blog and sew lol

I am learning to sew after visiting my Mom and learning a few things from her. I have so far made some napkins and a few fabric postcards and a beaded elephant for my oldest daughter Kara. Please keep in mind I am still trying to figure out how to blog AND how to complete my projects...