A creative mess is better than tidy idleness. ~Author Unknown
Any day spent sewing, is a good day. ~Author Unknown
I love sewing and have plenty of material witnesses. ~Author Unknown

Friday, August 24, 2012

My Crochet Slippers

Summer is coming to the end, perhaps the fact that school starts soon, made ​​me eager to start knitting crochet slippers.

Since I did not have a pattern or instructions, I decided to do an Internet search.
I found two sites with free tutorials that interested me, two different patterns
but both are original. If you have interest in making these crochet slippers, I
invite you to visit my blog, there you will find all the information.
 
In case you want to see more pictures of my slippers, I add them here.
 

 

 
Have a nice day.
 

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Sleeping Towel/Mat

Hi fellow crafters!  I hope you're all well and crafting away.  What's everyone working on?  Crocheting?  Knitting?  Sewing?  Please share!!!  I need some fresh inspiration.  I was looking back and realized I never tried chicken scratch.  When I get a chance I'm wanting to make some throw quilts out of scrap fabric.  It would be cool if a couple of the squares were chicken scratch.  But on to today...

I've been working on another round of being sick.  What's up with that?!?!?!  So I have very little to show for my time.  Today, I whipped up a sleeping towel for my daughter.  Please tell me why they must nap on a towel at school instead of a mat?  I completely cheated on this craft because let's face it travel pillow cases are cheap ($2.24) AND I found one that's zebra print just like I wanted.  So what did I actually do you asked?  I sewed the bottom of the pillow case to the top of the towel.  I know you're blown over right.  Hehehe...  Well, my only claim to fame is embellishing the front with a couple hearts, one being minky, and my daughter's name.  Because I still don't feel 100% I wanted to just put "Kj" nice and big in the middle, but my little rat wanted her full name.  Ugh...
Oddly when ironing the pillow case it left zebra stripes on my ironing board.  Good times. =)

Alright, I need some chicken soup or sorbet for my sore throat so "TAG!" you're it.  Post your recent or not so recent projects.

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

How to sew a crazy quilt clothespin bag.

Hello everyone, today I would like to share with you a new tutorial that I uploaded on my blog recently. My idea was to make a clothespin bag and I decided to make this project using the technique of crazy quilt.


This is a tutorial I made in two parts,in the first publication you will find all
the steps that I made before starting to sew. I show you how to dye  with tea,

how to draw the pattern

and also I added a link to a tutorial that shows how to crochet flowers.

Here you will find the tutorial for the first part,

Yesterday I uploaded the last part of the tutorial. I will share with you some
photos of my crazy quilt clothespin bag.








and here is the tutorial for  the second part.


I hope you enjoy this project, I had great pleasure in making it.
Have a happy sewing day!

Marisa.