It’s so very nice to have a place to keep my sewing machine all the time. In the old apartment I had to haul it out to the kitchen table, and kitchens and fabric isn’t a great combo while trying to keep the fabric clean. I spent a little time sewing this afternoon.

I enjoy having a craft room very, very much.

This was the first time I had worked on my quilt in a few months. I think since about February, maybe! Eek.

But now that I’ve got a permanent home for my sewing machine hopefully I’ll finish it one of these days…

I have long been debating about what to do for decoration in our bedroom, the walls are big and bare and kind of look stupid if you put anything on them because it makes everything (picture frames, etc) look really small and weird.

But, with the help of Charissa and Autumn I found some fun fabric,

Hemmed it, and hung it on a tiny curtain rod. Voila. Art?

So now I notice that the bottom is a little crooked. That silky fabric was extrememly hard to sew on…

So maybe you’re actually really sick of looking at this brightly colored blanket, but here it is in FINISHED form. Sheesh, took me long enough to get the pictures up, but it’s actually been done for a bit.

Toasty warm with some piggies

Eh, pay no attention to the dirty floor background.

Hooray, one more project done!!

Sewn into strips:

The ugly backside which kind of looks a little cool:

And the top:

I actually already have the middle blanket and the bottom blanket attached, but I am not by my camera right now, so you’ll just have to wait to see the finished product, but it’s so very warm and cozy and stretchy and snuggly.  And Derek, it’s not scratchy! They’re all nice comfy fabrics, not itchy wool.

So I know that sometimes people think that I go a bit overboard with my thirft store finds, but I swear this will be cool.

So I went to Bargain World and found an assortment of used sweaters, all of the cashmere type variety. (I say cashmere type because they’re not really nice sweaters, but just the comfy, soft fabrics) So I bought a bunch of old sweaters in lots of colors and they were all 50% off the already ridiculously low prices, so I bought lots of them.

Here they are in their original state:

I just spent all morning cutting them up (and my knuckles are bruised from the scissors I was using) and now I have this:

what didn’t make the cut:

And the good pieces:

Piecing it together:

Now the sewing begins!

So here’s a bit of what I’ve been working on for this ‘craft sale’ that is this weekend. I’m not actually thinking I’ll sell anything, but it’s worth a shot and it will be fun hanging out with the girls for a Saturday. I haven’t done really much knitting or anything like that (time constraints, you know) because it’s slow and sewing is just a lot faster, but not nearly as much fun. So this week I’ve really been stretching those sewing muscles of mine, well, actually I’ve just been finding out that I HAVE no sewing muscles, or skills. Oh well, practice makes perfect.

The first of the purses.

A few of the finished purses.

The first demented apron, I didn’t have a pattern or anything and just sort of went to town… I know… I know…

Second apron, turned out better, has cute buttons and I love the cheery yellow fabric. It’s a little less stiff of a fabric which is kind of annoying, but it’s very ‘worn in’ feeling. I can’t make up my mind about it yet.

The yellow apron on- no, the pocket isn’t crooked, it’s me. I’m crooked.

Another apron, I like this one ok. I mostly just like the floral pink fabric… it used to be a shirt that I wore maybe once, and it just wasn’t the best on me. So, now it’s an apron! The pocket is a little low on it, but I figure not everyone is as short as me, so it won’t REALLY matter… or something.

A close up of the fabrics I used

But I still have a lot left to make stuff out of! But only two more days to go, so we’ll see if anything more gets completed, but I want to try to make some more purses (quick and easy!!)