day2 patch project

These pictures are actually from the beginning of the day, so yesterdays progress minus two I sewed on before the picture. I think it is coming along nicely. I'm getting more playful with the embroidery. The blue fabric with white squares looks like windows of a building where some of the tenants blinds are up half way.

day1 patch project

Not so long ago my husband and I bought our first piece of vintage furniture together from this thrift store in Austin called Top drawer. It is beautiful but sadly, the fabric is so old that it has started to tear everywhere so "dun da da dun" (trumpets sound)sewing needle to the rescue. Inspired by the resourcefulness of the 1930's depression era I'm sewing our beautiful love seat back together with patches made up of two pieces of fabric fused together with fusible webbing. Actually leftovers from the were going to be more rose petals for my friends wedding but she didn't really like the roses so now i have a project for them, recycling, yeah. since I finished Lola's sweater two days ago I started this project yesterday. So I will post my progress everyday I work on it, hence day 1 being the title of this post. So follow me on this journey of re-binding seams and maybe follow along with something of yours that needs patching up. So with our needles in hand, thread them, tie the knot and get sewing.

fabric boutonnieres

Here is a sampling of boutonnieres and decrative flowers I made for my friends wedding. She got the idea from the Martha Stewart wedding website. They remind me of the 30's, feedsack fabric, cute, vintage, crafty, wedding items you can make for your own wedding. I added yoyos (a quilting technique) behind the buttons for the boutonnieres we used for the groom, father & grandfather. The groomsmen used one with 3 plain buttons & the ushers used the one with 4 buttons. The roses were sewn to a basket that was on the gift table for cards.

Side Slip Cloche

Ok, so on our way back home from visiting the first set of parents for the holidays we stopped at a Borders because my parents had given my husband a gift certificate to buy books because that is pretty much all that he wants buy, ever. He could live in a book store especially a resale one if they'd allow him to set up camp and could convince me to live a life of yellowing pages and dust. And with this gift card was uber kind and told me he wanted me to pick out a book I wanted too. I looked at all the knitting books they had that I'd never heard of before. You don't get many new knitting books at our library. And out of all of these knitting books I decided not to get the book I was excited to check out because of a side bar add on craftster which was "Mason-Dixon Knitting Outside the Lines: Patterns, Stories, Pictures, True Confessions, Tricky Bits, Whole New Worlds, and Familiar Ones, Too" by Kay Gardiner and Ann Meador Shayne and published in September 08 and instead get "Boutique Knits: 20+ Must-Have Accessories" by Laura Irwin which was published in Nov. of 08. And I am thrilled about it, wanting to knit everything in the book. My husband was like yeah get this one because he thought a lot of the stuff was sexy and he wanted me to knit it for myself or I guess for him to see on me like the first thing I knitted from the book, the "Side Slip Cloche" hat. A picture of the hat is used as the cover of the book. I am really please with this hat. It didn't take that long at all to knit and it looks fabulous and my girl friends all want me to make them one too which makes me smile. I can't knit enough or fast enough to knit all of the presents I have planned, stuff to sell and stuff to keep. Oh, well such is life; I guess I'll just keep on knitting at my pace, which I don't mind.