Pillowcase Dress

Here is another little dress made from a vintage pillowcase and some leftover fabric. The flower arrangement are yoyos and some vintage buttons. I love making these dresses they take very little fabric and the ideas are endless to decorate them.

Pillows

I've been doing some more creating the last couple days before I start another quilt. I have to let my mind rest and create something besides quilts from time to time so here is what I came up with.

I had a vintage dresser scarf that had holes and stains on one half of it so I cut it in half and made this pillow using two pieces of upholstery fabric. The back is a very pretty piece of upholstery fabric that matches the colors in the dresser scarf.

And of course I had to make another owl, these little fellows just call my name when I'm looking through my fabric stash.

I made my sister-in-law this cowboy jack-o-lantern pillow. The embroidery is called twilling which consists of connected knots. It is similar to the old style candle wicking, but much easier than doing all those individual french knots.

For Christmas I made her a western table runner. I love the pattern I used for this table runner, it can be increased or decreased for different lengths and it is a quilt as you go so when you have it sewn together the only thing left to do is the binding around the edge. Its so fast and easy!

I found some vintage embroidered pillow cases that were in good condition except for some fraying and holes at the very tops of them. I really wanted to use them since the embroidery was so pretty so I re-purposed them into cute little girls dresses.

I am way behind and have not spent much time blogging lately. But I have been busy creating so here are a few of the projects I have completed in the past few months.

 This is a Queen size blue jean quilt and when you get this folded up it is VERY heavy. It was a bit tricky to get this monster quilted using my regular sewing machine.  My client loved it and was very happy with it.

  My next project was a t-shirt quilt for a lady who runs marathons for breast cancer. I love the flannel she picked for the back and binding, I loved working with it.

My current project is another t-shirt quilt. This one is for a guy using his college football t-shirts and I've added a couple pictures to this one and a block with his number and name.  I am ready to do the quilting on this one now.

I decided to learn something new for 2013!  I am learning to knit by watching you-tube videos and from the book Knitting for Dummies.  So far I am feeling quite good about my progress.

These scarves are the reason I decided to learn, I wanted one in several colors and didn't want to pay the $25.00 for them so I bought the yarn for 4.00 each and made them.

This is my first knitted scarf!