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| Mr. P came home this evening and plunked this down on the kitchen table. He said "honey I need your help" Could you please put some flames or something on this for me? |
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| So I dug around in my stash,I knew I had some fabric with flames on it somewhere! This is the one he picked out of the two I found. |
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| I also added his name with some scrapbook stickers and the number 1(because according to him,he is # 1)! |
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| Here is a sneak peak of the sewing that I was also able to get done this evening :) |
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| My quilt sandwich all pined on the kitchen floor. |
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| Ta Da! I so wanted to take a picture of the finished quilt outside today. However the wind was so bad that it was not happening :( So I had to settle for a pic on the bed. |
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| Here is a close-up. I am soo happy with how my binding turned out! This is the first Ever time that I can say that :) It is not perfect by any matter of means,that being said it is as close to perfect as I have ever come! The corners look pretty good and there aren't any spots where I didn't catch the binding when sewing it on the back! Yay!!! |
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| This is the back side. I just did straight line quilting. When I was making the blocks for the front side of the quilt I somehow made one too small. I wanted to incorporate into the quilt. Finally the thought occurred to me to use it on the back side. So I cut it in half and then used a decorative stitch to sew them on the backing in opposite corners. |
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| This is the top left side (for some reason both of these pictures came out sideways in the post) I sewed a M on it for Max! |
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| This is the bottom right corner. This one has a W sewed on for whiskers! Now I can check this off of my summer projects list :) |
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| If you remember not to long ago I posted about this bird feeder. Well as you can see it was a big hit with the little birds in our neighborhood! |
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| These two birds seemed to be saying "Hey stop with the pictures already and fill the jar"! |
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| These are some of the gourds that I am trying to grow this year in the garden! If they do well I will have some cool new fall crafts to work on this year :) |
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| Here are Jolene and her DH yesterday after Graduation. We now have a Doctor in the family :) They are heading off to Indiana the first week in June,because that is where he will be doing his residency. Jolene will be going back to school to earn her PHD in Biology! I will miss Her sooo much (sad face) :( |
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| Tomorrow is Giveaway Day! click here to go to my giveaway post! Be sure to visit Sew Mama Sew's blog for the list of all the giveaways :) |
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| Here is the mason/canning jar you will need for this project. |
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| This chick feeder is what you will need for the base of your bird feeder. You can find these at your local Home & Ranch, or Feed Store. (not sure what the actual name of it is tho) |
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| Mr. P is drilling the hole in the center bottom of the mason jar. You will need a 5/16" Carbide Tipped drill bit,for glass,tile & ceramics. You will also need a 3/16x2 eye bolt, used to attach the plate to the jar. |
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| Mr. P drilling the hole in the bottom of the glass plate. I found this pretty plate yesterday at a yard sale! You don't need any specific size plate. Just one that catches your eye :) yard Sales and Thrift stores are great places to look! You might also find something in your own cupboard that you no longer use. |
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| The last things you will need are bird seed, and some type of hanger. We used an old piece of small link chain. You could use plastic coated wire (like what is used for clothes line) or string or twine. To fill your bird feeder with seed, turn the jar upside down and remove the chick feeder base. Pour in the bird seed, then re-attach the chick feeder and quickly turn right side up. |
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| Here are my two new bird feeders in our little apple tree! Now if Mr. Squirrel will stay out, Ha Ha! I am hoping that the plate will help keep him out :) |
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| Check out my may giveaway |
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| This is my rock garden, almost all put back together! Last weekend Mr. P & I took out every Single ROck! Cleaned out all the leaves and debris and then started to put them back. I say started, because we both had to give-up when we were about 2/3 of the way done putting the rocks back. We had sore backs and legs for the first half of the week. Now we just have to get the sand for the path around & also the path to the apple tree. |
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| This is where my sunflower garden goes every year. This evening I planted them all! you can't see them to well because the tallest ones are only around 3 inches high so far. This year I took some of my rocks and bordered all of my flower beds with them. I put some of my pinwheels here too! But I need to make some more. |
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| Here are the items Mr. P & I are including in the care package we will be sending to our Marines. It is the least we can do for them, seeing ALL That They DO for Us!!! Visit Sage Endeavors for more details, or if you would like to send a care package too :@) |
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| Last but not least, Yard Sales! These are 5 simplicity panels with 2 dresses on each for 18" dolls. Not pictured is more fabric (that is in the wash) that I Picked up from a free box at one of the yard sales!! I also found some kool jars to make solar lights with! Didn't have any sewing time today,but hopefully tomorrow :) |
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| Be sure to enter my giveaway |
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| Yay,another summer project done. Check! |
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| I really love how these turned out,they were so easy to make too! |
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| I found the pattern over at Cluck Cluck Sew You should go check it out :-) |
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| Side view, showing off my black and white dot fabric! I am definitely going to make more of these pillows :-) |
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| This is my guest host giveaway! You can find all the details here at Sew,Mama,Sew |
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| These 4 Whinny The Pooh fabrics are the the first part of my giveaway. The two at the top are some fabric that Jolene (my daughter) bought in Mexico and brought back for me. I am not sure what type of fabric it is. It frays very easily. The one with Eeyore is fleece, and the last one is cotton. |
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| This pile of fleece is scraps from making fleece blankets. There is Pink,nascar,camo,light grey and pale blue. |
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| Lastly there are two different pieces of cotton, nascar prints. Now for the details... There are No Hoops to jump through, just leave me a comment about where you are from and what you would make. I will pick a winner on the evening of May 25th. I will ship on May 30th. I will ship internationally for this giveaway. I am located in the Beautiful Rocky Mountains of Colorado USA Good Luck! :-) |
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| Over at Sew,Mama,Sew they are having a May Day Giveaway on May 23rd You can either be a Giveaway Host,or an eager participant! I am planing on being a Giveaway Host,so will post about what I am going to giveaway tomorrow,Thursday May 19th |
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| This evening I was able to finish sewing together the top of my Max & Whiskers quilt. I am going to try to get the binding all sewed together tomorrow after work,we will see how that goes! |
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| Here is a close-up! I wanted to take a picture outside,but it is windy and raining. So had to use the bed instead. I am hoping that my batting arrives by Saturday so that I can work on it this weekend. On another note, I am soooo bummed because the things that I sent to my mom for Mothers Day never arrived!! So I think that I am going to make duplicates and resend them :( Although now I am a little Leary about sending them again! |
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| Here it is Finally! I posted about this quilt way back in February,here yikes! Anyway, here it is. This quilt is for my Big Sis :) I am glad that it is finished, not only because now I can send it to T, but because it was a pain from start to finish. It certainly isn't a anywhere near as perfect as I had hoped :( But I also know that she will love it in spite of all the flaws it has. |
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| Even tho I loaded this pic twice, it still came out sideways :( This is a mug rug that I made using scraps from the quilt. It also didn't turn out as nice as I had hoped it would. Sigh, maybe one of these days I will be able to bind things without them turning out looking like they got in a fight with the sewing machine! |
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| This is the only thing that I am very happy with :) It is a coaster, that T can use for her tea cup at her desk. So now I can go sew without feeling guilty about not having this finished and shipped! |
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| Here are my 6 1/2 x 42 strips all sewn together. |
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| My strips cut into 8 1/2 x 13 blocks |
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| Blocks with a strip added on the side, waiting to be pressed. |
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| All pressed! The next step is to square up my blocks to 12 1/2 x 12 1/2 For the Pay ~ It ~ Forward Jennifer over at That girl... That quilt... is having a PIF and I got in on it just in the nick of time! The way it works is.. add your name to the list, the name below yours is the person you pay it forward to. Then you pick 2 other peeps, either from blog land or in your community. You have a year to complete your pay it forward! Check out Jennifer's blog for all the details. |
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| So I saw a tute on a linking party for how to make these very cool solar lights! The problem is that for the life of me I can Not remember which party or who's blog it was on! Sorry!!! |
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| I want to give credit, so if anyone knows please let me know so that I can post a link and give credit. These were so easy and fun to make! In the tute they used half pint mason/canning jars, but I just used jars from my collection. (I had bought lots of different jars when I was making bath salts. |
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| Here is the start of our garden :) This year I decided that we would have raised beds. One of our neighbors gave us all the wood, he works for cdot(Colorado Department of Transportation). Since these were last years they couldn't use them!!! We ran out of light so didn't get everything planted, and had to finish today. But I forgot to take pictures when we finished. |
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| This is my Max & whiskers quilt all cut out, Yay! I am so happy that I was able to get it all cut this weekend! The mat underneath was a Mothers Day present to myself! Leaning up against the table is a metal carpenters yard stick, which is actually 47 inches long. Perfect for sewing since most fabric is 44-45 inches wide. Mr. P bought it for me, because I have been using a old piece of molding. As the longest acrylic ruler I had was only 18 inches long. |
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| While at the apple blossom festival this weekend we found this spinner. The picture didn't turn out very well. It has the Marine Cop. emblem on it and says, United States Marine Corps. Hope everyone else had as nice a Mothers Day weekend as I did! |
