Category: Other projects
-
Tutorial: Fabric flowers
This weekend I have to teach a short workshop at a women’s retreat. I decided to teach how to make fabric flowers. Today DD#1 and I made up some samples. I figured I better actually make one before I tried to teach how! It’s a pretty simple craft that gives almost immediate satisfaction in a…
-
Yeah! Finally complete!
Yeah! I finally finished these! They’ve only been sitting in my living room since last fall. I think I’m ADHD when it comes to crafts. I see a project, imagine all the possibilities, jump in with both feet, and then get distracted by the next project before I’m finished. I’m trying to finish up my…
-
Bowl Full of Blue
So I didn’t create any great art today, even after receiving a huge box full of inspiration the day before. Instead, I spent a lovely morning drinking coffee with my youngest daughter, listening to her talk, and keeping my hands busy by wrapping balls. It’s not much, but it made me smile, and it gave…
-
Mural at church
Friday evening I recruited my two daughters to help me put up this mural in a Sunday school classroom at church. The wallpaper mural came in eight panels and was a bit of a trick to put up! The paper kept stretching so it was difficult to match up the design in places. I was…
-
AlphaBuddies Baby Quilt
A dear friend of the family who grew up with our daughters is having her first baby, so it gave me an excuse to make a (gasp!) traditional quilt block and practice my piecing. About six months ago, I happened to buy this quilt kit using Andover’s Alpha Buddies. I bought it because a couple…
-
Tutorial: magnetic pin dish
I saw this great idea on Amy Smart’s blog, Diary of a Quilter. So today before I left for church I made this one minute craft. So easy and it works! Just use some craft cement and glue some magnets to the underside of a pretty dish. I didn’t have the extra-strong neodymium magnetic buttons…
-
New blue flower
Not much quilting is getting done right now, but I am enjoying do a multitude of other little tasks. One of those is assembling this flower for my garden. I’m not much of a gardener at all. Basically, my garden consists of “volunteers” (any plant that plants itself, takes care of itself, and requires no…
-
Wallpapering
Quilting has temporarily put on the back burner so I can do a few other projects. Today my daughter came over so we could put up a bit of wallpaper in one of the Sunday school rooms at church. This project only involved five poster-sized panels so it was quick and easy. Our next project…