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Handmade Christmas, part II

Handmade Christmas, part II

This project was actually a Christmas present for me. :)
A while ago I saw this tutorial for sewing your own ironing board cover and saved it in my “ideas” folder. It looked so easy, and my ironing board definitely needed a face-lift! Then a few days later I found some really cute material on the remnants table at the fabric store. And now, several months later, I finally took the time to make it into this:
It turns out that the hardest part was getting everything together and taking the time to make it – so glad I did! :)
The ironing board cover takes 2 yards of fabric and about an hour to complete (or longer if you get interrupted;)). Basically, if you have a sewing machine, iron and ironing board and some basic sewing skills, you can make this!

Hmm, maybe I’ll make a few more as Mother’s Day gifts?
I’m posting a link to this on a few of these blogs.
my preferred crafting spot

my preferred crafting spot


close-up of a project for Baby#2

I am comfortable on the floor. Especially when I’m doing paper crafting. Scrapbooking …… I use a table for that, but only because you really need a firm surface to work on. If we had wood floors I’d probably do that on the floor too!
I like the floor because:

  • I can see everything.
  • There’s enough space to have it all spread out around me, 
  • and I can reach it.

On the table I tend to lose things, or stack them up or put them in a box so that I can have more room and then I forget where I put them.

Some people have entire rooms devoted to crafting (Martha Stewart comes to mind …). I think if I had one – even with counter tops and so on – I’d still end up on the floor. It just works really well for me.

Until naptime is over, that is. :)


tidying up a bit

tidying up a bit

With my energy back now that I’m in my second trimester, I went through the closet in Emma’s room/sewing room and organized the fabric. I had only had it in boxes marked “fabric” and now they are organized and labeled by type. There is something about having it all labeled that gives me a peaceful feeling. :)

working on things

working on things


more aprons are in the works ……… I’m just having a few “technical difficulties” along the way. Rather, the machine thinks it’s hungry for thread, trys to chew it and then doesn’t like it and spits it back out. “Bad sewing machine! Bad!”

I think I have figured out the issue, though, so things should be up and running again shortly.
before

before

our dining room also acts as my sewing room.
I wanted to take a few pictures of it in its “dining room mode” before I pulled the sewing machine, fabric, and notions etc. back out
because it was so pretty as a dining room.

*the Christmas lights on the porch aren’t left over from Christmas. oh no, we’re much too on top of things for that. in fact, they aren’t really even Christmas lights at all. instead, they are ambiance lights. :)