Felt Food

My niece has a little kitchen set so I decided to make her a selection of felt food as her Christmas gift this year.


I'm busy working on the first container of food.



POPCORN!!!!

I looked around online at a lot of different styles and couldn't find a pattern that was what I wanted so decided to make my own. At first I wasn't sure about it, but then one of my kids came in while I was working on it and said 'Oh cool, popcorn!' and I didn't even have the container yet. I figured that maybe it actually did resemble popcorn. lol

I am putting together a tutorial on how I made it if you're interested, so be sure and check back!

I'm linking this post to Tea Rose Home so click below to check out her blog and  some of the other links. There's a lot of good stuff!!

I'm working on something

Here's a sneak peek.

I'm back!!

We've been gone on vacation and it was fabulous!!!

Now it's time to get back to crafting too. :0)

Annie BOM

I finished my first block in Sharon's Annie block of the month.

Isn't she cute?!

It worked up so quickly and I'm loving the bright colors. It seems that everything I've been working on lately use dark or muted colors so this was really refreshing.

I can't wait for next month's package to arrive.!

A new top

Okay, this one isn't a t-shirt refasion but it is another shirt I made for my girls.


This one started with two cotton dish towels that I bought on clearance last year.


I knew what I wanted to do with them, it just took me this long to actually do it. lol

There was one pink dish towel and one plaid. The pink one had the embroidery on one end.

So, I cut it off at one end, leaving enought to just turn it under to make the neckline, leaving enough room in the fold to run the tie through. I did cut it in a little to give it some deffinition under the arms.

I cut the long (already folded and sewn) edges from the plaid dish towel and stitched those togeter to make the tie at the neck.

Then I cut a piece of the plaid towel to match the sides on the pink piece and shirred the fabric. After that, all that was left to do was sew the back to the front.

Since I used the ends of the dish towels, this eliminated having to hem the bottom of the shirt too.

I thought it turned out pretty cute. And for once, it actually turned out the way I had envisioned it. lol

The girls really like it, and I think it cost all of $2.00 to make. Can't beat that!! And, I like the challenge of looking for 'fabric' in unusual items. It adds an extra touch of challenge to the process.

Yet another t-shirt refashion

I think I'm on a roll here.


This is another t-shirt I've had laying around forever.


I don't even remember why I bought it in the first place.


And I know that this is (at least) the third house of ours that it's lived in.


I'm glad i finally got around to doing something with it. :0)

I cut the shirt off under the sleeves and finished the raw edge with a zig-zag stitch using contrasting thread.

Then I put a few lines of shirring all the way around the top.

For the straps, I  cut the hem off of another t-shirt and turned it inside out. It almost felt like cheating. lol

I cut a flower design from that same other t-shirt and did an 'Alabama Stitching' type design on the shirt along with the reverse applique.

When I got finished, I felt like it still needed a little more pizazz (as my girls like to call it) so added the beads to the middle of the flowers.

The girls are happy with how it turned out, as am I. This is the first time I've done a design without copying it from somewhere else. Yeah me! lol

I won!!!

I won the drawing that Sharon had.


This is what I won.

(I apologize that the picture isn't better.)

It is soooo cute! Much better than the picture looks. (I've got to get a new battery for my camera because the one I have now won't hold the charge well enough to take decent pictures.)

I also ordered her Annie BOM. It comes with fabric strips to finish it off too. And then I couldn't help but order the cute pair of scissors too.

And as a surprise she threw in that cute little zipper bag too!! Isn't it adorable?!

I'm already having to fight with my girls because they want that little bag too.

It was all packaged up and wrapped so cute too.


Go over to her site Daisy Cottage Quilting and order some cuteness for yourself. She's got some great stuff there!!