A short hike from my house was a fantastic garage sale. I may go back without the kids so I can pour over the items at my leisure.
The boy scored a soccer ball for one thin dime.
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It was such an overcast, cold crumby day that I needed to find something to do in the house and I certainly didn’t feel like cleaning today.
I made this bag to carry my “park-play” items. Water bottles, mini first aid kit with instant cold pack, my cell phone, sunscreen and sometimes a snack. I do still need to put a closure on the bag but haven’t decided if I’ll have the flap go inside or outside. I’ll likely just use Velcro since it’s quick and easy.
The denim is from another chair slipcover and the patchwork came in a bag of scraps I got in a free box at a sale.
Total cost of project: virtually nothing…just my time and a little electricity.
These are for an Anything but Paper ATC swap.
I took a scrap of old table cloth and started randomly sewing fabric scraps on using different colors of thread and stitches. It was fun playing with the different settings on my machine.
I took a ATC template and traced the proper sizes on the back then cut on the lines. I did a zigzag stitch around each to hold everything together.
I’m still working on busy bags for my friend’s church. Slowly but surely I’ll get a dozen made. This one was made from another part of the denim slipcover I recently cut up. The quilt block came in a scrap bag I inherited. I decided to try out one of the “fancy” stitches on my machine to sew it on. I like the contrast of the red thread.
While watching Robots with the kids last night, I was inspired to create this necklace from watch parts.
Just like last year, I’m using a natural dye process to color our eggs. I used this tutorial for the process.
The purple/blue eggs were made with red cabbage.
The reddish eggs were onion skins..both yellow and red gathered from the bottom of my onion drawer. Based on the tutorial, I expected I’d get a greenish yellow color.
I also threw a few scraps of muslin in the dye bath. The orange is really puzzling to me. One side is more orange than the other but the blue pieces are the same color on both sides. You can also see where I dripped a little blue dye on the orange. Opps!
Note to self and others: USE GLOVES!! My fingers are horribly stained.
When my husband got his new mini computer for work he mentioned that he really needed something to protect it from scratches and such during transport.
I immediately thought of using a denim jeans leg. I quickly made one up but discovered the denim just wasn’t thick enough.
Then I remembered these camo pants legs I had and the matching belt piece from yet another pair of pants. The original denim pants leg is the lining inside the camo. I also put some light weight foam at the bottom so the mini computer would have some cushion.
I really happy with the result and it cost me nothing but the electricity to run the sewing machine.