Good Morning Flower Quilt Top Sewn ! !

Well, I had a friend over tonight, well, last night and until this a.m.   We call it an "all-nighter" we made it till  almost 6 am.  pretty long time for "old folks" ha ha.

She was working on a a dog bed, but decided, to make it a pillow case instead.  She wasn't sure, she wanted a new puppy, chewing up and possible ruining a lot of hard work, It was to be what started as a pillow, then you put edges with stuffing around it, so it would be a dog bed, but it looked so darned cute as a pillow, that she made some edges, and made it into a pillow case, I will have to have her send me a picture of it.  It was made with what looked like 1" squares, which is a lot of work. I don't think I would want a new puppy chewing up all that hard work either.

I hemmed a purchased blouse, (it was a little longer than I had wanted), then moved to a quilt kit I had purchased from a Quilt Show recently.  Here is the finished quilt top.

 

It is approximately 42 x57 or so at this point, I will probably get some fabric and make a border around it to make it a little bigger, then a backing fabric, then quilt.  I am so glad, I got the top done! I feel so productive, but really tired at this point in the morning.  I will be going to bed soon, and my husband will be waking up !
  I am excited to try out some stitching I have seen on "Craftsy", some  Free Motion Quilting which I have hardly done any of.

  I also, have some projects, of the "felt hearts" previously mentioned in recent  blog post , that I need to show photos of, and talk about.  Sometimes, this creative posting, does take time to put up, and I get a little behind.   Time for some shut-eye - goodnight.  :)

Heart Garlands

I got a bright idea to make some Heart Garlands for our Cubes at work for our Dept.  It really doesnt cost that much to buy the supplies, especially when using coupons,  The Idea I got from a garland from Pinterest ,  see pic.

Well, I purchased 5 colors of felt, Red, Dark Pink, Light Pink, White and Purple. Made some templates, for 4 shapes of hearts. Nothing difficult yet...  then  I proceed to cut them out, various shapes, in varying numbers on each color.  5 days  later,  and with the help of a coworker, they are all cut out.  I am sure, if I had asked more coworkers to help, they would have, I just have a tendency to take on things for myself.  Is this a Type A personality, or a Type B ? Leave a comment if you know., not that it matters, but I need to investigate this info in depth. Anyway, tonight, I separated stacks by Colors, and by Sizes.  I don't know if it is me, or I  am just OCD or Anal, (not sure if that is the right word) anyway, after 3 hours, I have 13 garlands, ready to sew. 

I first had to separate by color and sizes, then put the exact sizes for 13 garlands, some varying colors, but mostly the same. anyway, Spreading them out, and coming up with a design, I laid them all out, and got them all lined up in a similar yet, slightly different colors, into 13 garlands ready to SEW !!  That is the next step !!

Here is a picture of my stacks.

 

Now they are ready to sew !  I actually came home today from work, thinking they would all be sewn by the evening.   Things just never go as planned.   Anyway,  at work, we are going to make Valentine sacks, like when school children exchange Valentines.  We thought it would be a fun and simple thing to do.  A few of us, have collected things to decorate our sacks.   More pictures to come after Valentines Day

 

UPDATE :-Feb 8,  I will be having 2 coworkers come over, they want to learn how to do a T-Shirt Quilt.  Even though I have not finished one, I do have the knowledge, and the paperwork , and books, to get this done. So we will be doing that soon.   Be sure and check back later for info on that, and for Pictures of our decorated Valentine Sacks, and The Finished Garlands !  !

 

More sewing and  creating so far this year,  yay for me !



I hope 2013 is a productive Year !

Before I can start sewing, I really have to get to my sewing table !   aaahhh, I know all sew-ers are not like this, but a lot are.  I think they are all a lot more organized than I am. My sewing room is a catch all for anything, that I want out of the way of things.  Even though, it was organized at one time, it has not been for a few years.

  I went to a quilt show last weekend and bought some things to inspire me, and make me sew.  One thing I bought is a quilt kit. All the pieces to make the top and binding are included.  It is strips, what could be so easy ?  And all of them are already pre-cut !  It should be about 42" X 56 " when it is completed.  Ok, cannot get picture to upload, will have to do it later.  Oops, I hate it when technology does not go as simple and easy as it should sometimes.

  Well, off to clean off a few more things of that table, so I have room for the sewing machine and my projects.

 

Edited to add picture. 1.30.13

Aug 12, 2012

Gosh,  last post July 2011.  now it is Aug 2012.   I cannot believe I have not sewn hardly anything in the past year.   So am a still a sewist?   I dream about sewing things all day,  why of why, do I come home, and choose other things to do.  Things, deeply, do not mean to me, what sewing does.

   I wish there was something I could drink, and it would make me want to sew.  It is in my mind, all the time,  but never comes to action.  Diagnosis---- ?  I have a couple friends from work , wanting to make some T-shirt quilts from their young childrens T-Shirts, and clothes,  so hopefully, that will happen in the  next for months.  

working on 2 things at once, aaaaahhh

Yes, we sew-ers are muli-tasking, we can have 10 projects open at one time, work on wich ever we choose.!

I am currently working on a SKYLA baby banner for Kara at work, she is due in Sept., and I told her I would make her one.  The color scheme was to be  "John Deer Pink and Pink camo" well, mine did not blend well, so I am making something, I hope will be just as loved. 

Also,  I still have about 15 "dammit dolls" started about 2 years ago, yes, you heard that right,  they are getting closer to being finished. Thought I might take them to work and sell them, people seem to love these "dammit dolls'.  They are a lot cuter than I have seen on etsy, buy I am sure there are others that are just as nice.  so,  ...  slowly buy surely, and put "Farmville on the backburner" I can get these done soon. !
And I'm going to start selling Avon,... another thing to keep be busy.  but at this rate, I have enought fabric, and patterns to keep me going a long time after I run out of any money I may have!!.   thanks Elizabeth for letting us temporarily invade you Sewing Dream Loft, while Vicki is still working on her home. And Clhoe is just a bonus,  such a sweet sweet dog, you are such a good trainer   !!   Unitl next time. sew sew sew.

Too Long

Yes, it seems to be slow process of mine, updated the blog, and the sewing.

This is a project I done about 2 years ago, I found it in my "sewing" folder in my pictures file.

So this is what I have chose to talk about today.

Once again, a story about work. A while back a few people in our department wanted to play the dirty santa for Christmas. I put in my bag for someone else, a "coupon" that was for a name banner, name of their choice and colors, etc. Someone picked it, then it got stolen, so Kellye got it. She wanted a name banner for her daughter. Color preferences, zebra print, hot pink, and turquois.

Here are 3 pictures of the finished project. They seem to always show at the top of my post, no matter where I try to place them.

So, one is the whole banner, name Courtney.

Another is one of the closeup of a letter. Pink backing, that wrapped around to the front, with turquois ribbon, sewn over the edges, that left a nice square of that color on each one. Each letter is sewn around, and this one has purchased trim flowers in each corner. It is sewn together with a pink ribbon behind every letter, and sewn at top of ribbon and bottom, so it could hang nicely

And last, I put a bow of zebra print at each hanging point (there is a circle behind it to hang it with), and a pretty turquoise bow and turquoise ribbon hanging from each one. Her daughter loved it.

Creative Endeavers

This post is not about sewing, or photo editing really. But it is about a creative event. The office I work at, has a committee, that is to boost morale, and a manager, and people from all teams rotate, to help come up with new ideas quarterly, for holidays, and fundraising efforts, and just fun things that does help our office have a fun day, every now and then, amongst all the hardworking that everyone does.

Last month they had a raffle so to speak, for a chance to have a Manager, or Merry Manager at your disposal for 30 minutes to have them do what every you want, maybe go get your lunch, make some phone calls, awful filing, or even boxing up files. So several of the Department Managers, and even some Operations Manager volunteered for this event. There were boxes with their pictures on them, where you could deposit you tickets you purchased for .50 cents. They really should have done this auction style, but this is the way it worked. Every day, people would go shake the boxes to see how many tickets were in them. There wasn't a lot, you could hear that. So I thought, I really needed to participate in this, so as not to make the committee seem like they had failed. I have been at this company going on 9 years, so I new the ones that had been there a while, but there was some newer ones. There was about 6 ladies, and 2 gentlemen managers willing to do this. I really could not think of anything I would want the ladies to do, it just seemed weird, they were managers, and I could not see me delegating to them. I am not good at delagating.

So I decided I would put 2 tickets in each of the mens boxes. One guy was from England, and I had in mind, if I won him, I would just have him sit in my cubicle, and read a book or just talk lightly, so I could listen to his voice and accent. Really, I am serious. The other guy, I wasn't sure, but I put my ticket in. The day came and I won one ! I won Ernie, he had been at the company less than a year, a young guy, who always had a smile on his face. He was an Operations Manager. I thought maybe I would have him put the boxes together that we file things in for storage. If you have ever worked in an office, and around paperwork, it can be difficult to figure out how these boxes fit together. They come flat, and your fold A B etc, anyway, I thought that would take him 30 minutes to do about 8 of these for me for filing.

He had to contact me to schedule this work-time with me. It is close to Valentines day, next Monday, and I have the day off, so me and Ernie scheduled the Friday before that, (which was today). I like bringing cakes, and pastries to share with the people I work with, so I decided, I would make some cupcakes, and Ernie, would put the icing on, and decorate them. So I made 8 dozen mini cupcakes, and brought them to work, and several toppings to sprinkle on them. Ernie did not know what he was going to do. We met in the kitchen, he asked what I had planned for him, I didn't tell him, just yet, I asked him, if he had a good phone voice, then told him we needed to wash our hands, then I handed him a leopard print apron to put on, and told him, we didn't want to mess up his clothes. I paraded him the long way to the cubicle with the cupcakes, then he understood what he would be doing. It was funny. He had never done anything like this before. He could cook, but he was not a baker. His big hands would fumble with these tiny cupcakes, and he knew he had to hurry to get them all done in time.

He started to work on them. I went back to my desk and proceeded to call a few managers and tell them what he was doing, they all had to come and see, and take photos ! Everyone thought this was hilarious, and had to get a photo. I think he really enjoyed all the attention from all the girls, there is only about 6 or less men to about 80 or so women on our floor. So this was my creative outlet for today. He only got about half of them done, but I think it turned out well.

Photos by A. Bond