Mac case

Here is our new Mac case

I LOVE this skirt

How cute is this skirt!? I came across it on the net and I love it!

I'm going to have a go at copying it, will update this post if I'm successful.


Update: I love the fabric in the skirt above, but didn't have anything that nice on hand. Overall, the skirt worked out the way I wanted it to. Upon trying it on, I realised that it really doesn't suit me... lol, not to worry.

Coasters, coasters, coasters!

These coasters are so easy to make and they've been a great project to use up a bunch of my fabric, ribbon and wadding left overs. Am planning to give them out as Christmas presents.

I love these greens & pinks together

Coasters

I recently came across a coaster tutorial (link is at the bottom of post) and thought I'd use up some of my quilting leftovers and give it a try.

http://mariemadelinestudio.typepad.com/mariemadeline_studio/2008/11/sew-simply-coaster-cuteness.html

Another heat pack

A couple at work asked if I could make them two fitted heat wheats. I didn't have a pattern or picture to go by, so it was interesting trying to figuring it all out. I forgot to take a picture of the second one, it was pretty well identical except that I used a blue feature fabric rather than the pink.

Cover

Insert

I was pretty pleased with the end result, and the couple have reported back that they work really well :)

Sun Visor

On the way to work the sun goes right into Josh's eyes, even with the sun visor turned to the driver side window... so I made this random thingy to extend the sun visor. It's nothing special, I just used a cut out bit from a cereal box reinforce it and a bit of elastic so it would "hold on" to the sunvisor.

1st attempt at Quilting

After borrowing a book on quilting from the library last year I felt inspired to make a cot quilt.

I ended up having more fabric than necessary so I decided to add an extra panel, meaning it's square, not rectangular (and hence, not really a cot quilt anymore.)

I think if a real quilter saw it up close they would quite possibly cry. The stitching isn't straight, some of the squares ended up smaller than others, I didn't want to fork out $70 for a quilting foot for my machine which means the stitching through the quilt leaves a lot to be desired, I had no idea what I was doing with the binding etc etc... from a distance it doesn't look too shabby though.

Rice Heat Therapy Packs

In my festive frugality before Christmas I decided to make some rice heat packs after seeing this tutorial at Sew Mama Sew:
http://sewmamasew.com/blog2/?p=280

I made about 20-25 all up and gave them to just about everyone I know (Yes, I went a little overboard, but they were so much fun to make!)

Unfortunately it didn't occur to me to take photos until after I'd given most of them away as gifts