Back After A Long Time!!

 Well, I'm a grandmother now and I still work as a teacher so I'm pretty busy lately!  But I have still been creating a lot of happy, crafty stuff!  I will return with photos of some lovely items that I have made lately.  Sewn things, crocheted things, Cricut makes, and a fairly new craft to me....SOAP!  I have quite a few recipes under my belt now and I now know what works best for me.  Many gifted soaps later I have a good wealth of feedback and I am ready to embark on a Soapy journey with my DD who is also learning the craft.  I hope that it will bring a little income to her household. Stay tuned.......

New Post!

So I haven't posted in a very long time but I have been creating! This is a handle cover for a baby car seat!  I am now a grandma!

I did it!!  This quilt is made out of some of my daughter's horse show ribbons.  I sewed them onto a square of muslin with a decorative stitch.  The photos were printed onto printable fabric and I used my embroidery machine for the blue patch.  My second quilt ever!

Quilted Flag

I finally finished it!  It's a bit past July...but there's always next year!

Wreath with fabric flowers and burlap

Another craft by Alicia.  We used some fabric stash, kind of a linen type fabric for some of the flowers and an old sheet for a few others.  We bought the pink and blue burlap and she raided my button stash for the accents.  She also added a few pearls for the center of the flowers.  The wreath was an old one that I stripped  a long time ago and was hanging around in the garage.  So this wreath was pretty cheap to make.  We saw some on Pinterest from Etsy shops that were similar for $70.  Yikes!  Thanks for saving money, Alicia!!!

Bass Stenciled Burlap Canvas

Alicia was home from college and wanted to make crafts.  Thank goodness I had just organized the sewing/craft room so things were easy to find!  She found a graphic of a bass then cut it out on some plastic from a bacon package. (great stencil material) Then she applied spray glue to the stencil and placed it on a burlap canvas from Walmart.  Next she stenciled on paint and used a photo of a bass for color inspiration.  She let it dry for a few hours and peeled off the stencil.  Then she glued rustic looking rope all around for a frame, added a loop held together with twine and added an old lure for the final touch.  It came out really well.  Her fisherman boyfriend better like it!!

Quilt is almost done!

The quilt has been long armed at the quilt store and I have sewn on the binding to the front.  The instructor believes in hand stitching the back of the binding which I believe is the route to go after all this hard work.  I don't want it to look messy on the edge and I just know I would not catch all of that binding with a sewing machine!  So it may take a few evenings to complete.