When Its Cold and Gray Outside...Bring Paradise In

 Get Cozy!!!

The Best of Both Worlds-The Beach and the Fire

New Years -New Looks- Upholstery DIY

 My Sewing Living Area Needed a New Look

My Old Vinyl Parsons Chair was Cracking

I Love How Comfy this chair is.....

I found this nice striped upholstery fabric on the Flat Folds Sale Table

Gstreetfabrics.com

I got two pieces of this fabric to do this chair and a small old Wing Chair  in the colors that match my room.

I bought the Gold and Black burnished upholstery tacks to give a little extra to the edges.

I love the stripes and the colors match my decor

I LOVE THESE UPHOLSTERY TACKS!!

We also sell Nail Strips (I should have used on the Back)

But I was in a hurry... and I am the only one that sees my room

I just like to love the surroundings.

This is the small wing chair I covered years ago.  It needs added foam and padding.  I have to take off all the upholstery tacks and the old fabric before I repad it.  This is 

BEFORE

Emergency Weather Bootsocks

 Weather unexpected Snow

NO BOOTS-LIVING QUARTERS FLOODED AND LEFT WITH ONE PAIR OF CLOG TYPE OPEN WEAVE SHOES>>> COMFORTABLE TO WEAR BUT NOT GOOD FOR SNOW

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Grab some excess minky from pillow making

Make long Tubes cylinders and put elastic at the top so it will be adjustable and above the knees

Shaped to a point at the bottom and sew the point like a cone to fit over the end of your foot and elastic at the bottom to hold it on your foot.....   Slide your foot into your clog

                             BOOT SOCK LEGWARMERS

DONE It Worked

New Years Dones-- Small 6 x 12 Lumbar Pillow

 Small Round Lumbar Pillow

Done with some left over material from some Toss Pillows... Just enough

The Trim on the end sof the cylinder is a seam with the seam inside rolled in and topstitched to asimulate actual piping.  There was not enough to do piping.  There is an invisible zipper in the middle of the roll and it is using a premade insert from GstreetFabrics that was a 6 x 12 size of hypoallergenic stuffing.

Invisible zipper sewn in when first making center tube, before sewing on the ends.

After sewing ends pinch seam and top stitch by machine and then handsew down to pillow end

      Pillow Finished and edging sewn down                                       

DONE

When Life was Easier than I thought

 

Appreciating Days Gone By-having a cozy Living Room-Family Room to Enjoy

Having Built a Beautiful House

Having Owned a Beautiful Getaway of my Own with Gardens Galore

Appreciating all the Children

Cowell Turtleneck Comfy with side pockets accross the front-Matching Scarf and earrings -6 pieces

 

I do use patterns... I take them apart and mix and match pieces to create exactly what I want.  In this case I used the body of one, the cowell neck of another - expanded on the pocket idea from another sweater and decided to make the pocket band run accross the sweater on the inside front.  I made a scarf and matching earrings.  I picked this fabric to do, because of the holidays coming up and I have the silver glitter pants already made previously so this will go with them, perfectly. 

1.  Front piece cut on fold.

2.  Back piece cut on fold.

3.  Center of these is wide enough to cut a long scarf

4.  Large cowel neck piece to foldover and sew onto neckline

sew the piece together which will be the center back and then foldover when you sew to neckline with an over cast stitch on the inside.   Will make a large floppy cowell.

5.  2 sleeves.. one piece laid out on top of fabric folded over

6.  Large piece the width of the front to fold over and sew into side seams and hem when you sew the front.

On this all of the stripes will be horizontal including the sleeves.

To add something different you can always do stripes vertical on the neck piece, scarf and pocket piece and put the pocket piece on the outside of the sweater instead of inside.

The wall in my little workshop area

Just happened to have some silver glitter tubins I had made that matched the stripe in this fabric... So (SEW) here is the cowell neck shirt.

I made a scarf and earrings before I did the top...so here it is with the scarf and a couple of others that just happened to have the silver and black glitter.   I have many scarves.

Here it is with the jacket, that I just happened to have.  I have many jackets.

I added a light yellow crepe material scarf to brighten the color.

This will be a nice comfortable, but glittery outfit to look holiday special.

www.gstreetfabrics.com

4 different sweater fabrics are on the table, but this one is the first one to use.   Then I made the glitter stripe one.  I still have a forest green ribbed knit and a black tweed type cashmere feel knit to use ... the earrings are made..but I have to do some organizing and quilting...

Remember cut in multiples and you will have your sets already to just whip up when you have a little time.  The sweater band pockets are an experiment.  The others may end up with just side pockets or no pockets depending on how this works out.   Be back to show you the finished product.... Sew Sew Sew....

half? of the Ispy quilt is done

Make a lap quilt size the kids can play in the car.
When you decide what your color plan might be...
1.  make all your little center flaps first and put the numbers on.... sew two of same color square together in a tiny seam and flip press and turn in top to be ready to top stitch onto the blocks they belong on.. if stitching numbers apply first then sew small block pieces together  if stitching the Letters on the inside piece than just lay them out so you know which letters on going to be on the inside and sew the flap squares together after you have made your big ISpy blocks.

2.  then lay out all your ISpy center pieces in the center of the big blocks...this one is 10 inch blocks... 

3.  then cut all your left over scraps or tear them into the strips and sew all your strips around the Ispy centers on the blocks... 

4.  Lay your blocks out in the order you want your I spys.. 

5.  I did pairs so they could make different kinds of games out of it and placed them randomly ... put your center flaps on top 

6.  place your letters on the under side of the flaps because you now know what ISpy in under them.   

7.  and sew the flaps 

8.  then the border pieces in between block in a row... 

9.  and then sew the border piece between the horizontal rows...

10.  Now the frame in piece and decide if it is wide enough for where they are going to use it... bed...floor.. car..

Concentration anyone?  I spy?

I SPY my list and my quilt.... EWW my mini me is watching me

 All Fabrics and accessories(the trim that is mini me's matching necklace) come from -my favorite store where you will find me 4 days a week---www.gstreetfabrics.com

The vest is made from African print fabric with microfiber suede as the patches and what I am applying big on face pockets, plus the pants will be part of this TOTAL SET...The vest is lined with quilted minkie snuggle and there will be a matching clutch crazy quilted.  2 sets of earrings... 1 pr suede and 1 pr minkie.

I am going to apply myself to the I Spy quilt blocks, and then free motion quilt the whole thing

1.  Do lots of block pairs to fill the quilt...

2.  Decide placement on the quilt

3.  Decide the color borders between the blocks framing them in

4.  Heatnbond Ultrahold the fabric for the Alphabet Letters and Numbers and run them through my accuqult cutter.  If you use Heatnbond lite you will have to satin stitch around the letters with the sewing machine.  I just ironed mine.

5.  Decide the quilt color pattern for the Ispy cover blocks and apply the alphabet on one side and the number it will be on the quilt on the other side.

** for me.. I don't have a table in my little living space, so I use my bed.  I recently got one of the fold up cardboard tops and it makes things so much easier...   www.Gstreetfabrics.com

6.  Sew all the flaps into squares and flip to be ready to apply to blocks

7.  sew the borders for framing in on the rows of quilt blocks and then sew them together... freemotion any borders the way you want after the top is sewn together.

8.  Finish free motion quilting the backing and then sew the top to the back by stitch in the ditch and machine tie spots.

free motion quilting the back to batting a section at a time....

I am at this stage when I made the list... hopefully at the end of the day I will be finished and then have cut out multiples of pants, tops and bulkie sweaters for the chilly workplace.  At least one finished outfit for tomorrow ....including the one on mini me...LOL

If I get a portion of this done I will be happy.  Always make my lists more than humanly possible so I can check something off....

The scrap bag is out so I can make some masks from scraps, so if I don't finish a new outfit I can wear an old outfit with a matching mask.

And...... I am going to organize my room...HAHAH

Diva outfit to do .... White lined with Red for Dress coat when cold at work..quilted together.. all has been pre washed ready to cut and sew.... Lips will be mask and pair of earrings... earrings out of all three fabrics for different looks - dress and coatdress will be body curves.

Four bulky cowel neck drape sweaters to be cut out at one time... and quick sews for chilly warehouse

This jacket reversible Copper pleather with black sherpa suede... and a pair of high boots and or bootsocks and scarf in suede sherpa -soft from 2.97 room.

Inspiration to finish the ISPY to do these... my birthday Jacket...LOL.. last year it was the fabulous fur...-more casual this year... haha

OOOPs   Gotta go Grammie sit... delay in completing this list...