clothespin bag

 For Christmas my husband gave me an umbrella clothesline. (that I love)  It's retractable and easy to store. Oh how I love it. It's my little window into living in the country. I'll go out with a batch of clean clothes, let the chickens out and daydream of my future home away from the city.       

I started out using pails for my clothespins but it just wasn't working. I searched online and found this one. It was super easy to make, the blog has the pattern and the how to. 

I had to include the picture with miss baby blue (the chicken).

mug rugs

first up for the craft sale... mug rugs of course!

Yes a craft sale! I have always wanted to do it but time, moving and (let's be honest) fear have held me back but with the help of my sewing buddy I am finally doing it! We are planning to have the craft sale this fall so through out the year we will be gathering and sewing for our stock pile. 

These little cuties just 

need binding and then I can check them off the list.

appliqued gifts

 

I made these bags years ago for friends of my daughters. 

I had asked their parents for a drawing that was special to them and turned it into an applique. 

The owl was drawn by my daughter when she was 7.

hair clips

 

"yoda hair clip" 

made by chloe

more to come!

2011 Quilts

the lovely pillowcases

I am absolutely addicted to making these pillowcases. They are so much fun and super easy.

Here's how I made them.. I used premium muslin from Joann's. It was 108'' wide and about 11.99 a yard. I'll have to say it is worth every penny. The muslin washes up soft and wrinkly just like vintage linens. My mom was convinced I found old pillowcases to embroider on. I can get two pillowcases per yard. A few of the designs came from this book.  I took from a few vintage pillowcases to come up with the zinnia design and for the 

star wars... I traced it from cookie cutters.

more to come...

mustached and monogrammed

My friend and I made these super fun and easy mugs for all of our park ladies. We scoped out our local thrift stores for plain white mugs and had to search high and low for the special black pen. I saw the monogrammed idea on soulemama's blog. She had a link to this blog for the tutorial here. For the mustaches I used the same technique.. I printed out mustaches that

I liked and traced them on with the graphite paper.

oh the possibilities!

I think I'll try plates for the kids to draw on next!