Friday Night Sew In Work

Friday Night Sew In

First item is I have made 2 9 patch blocks with I Spy fabric

I cut them like a Disappearing 9 Patch and then sewed them back together.

When fall sewing starts we will put fleece behind each of these and we will be able to give them to agencies that deal with children.  It will give them something small, there will be items to find and the fleece will make it very soft.

The blocks below are ones that I've had for several years

Tonight I sewed them together and I still need to press this and of course it will have to be quilted.  It's not a big quilt but I have a friend who would love this for her sofa so I think this is where it will go.  Maybe a Christmas gift?

I had 3 blocks left so I'll make a pillow for her.

If I had not signed up for the Friday Night Sew In then none of this would have been done.  So I'm pretty excited that I have gotten this much done.  Maybe I'll do more in the morning!!

Friday Night Sew In on August 20th

I'm going to join the Friday Night Sew In and see if I can continue to get some items completed.  The link is on the right bar and there are almost 60 people that are signed up!  Can we keep going and make it 100??  You can work on whatever you want and they give prizes away!!
http://www.handmadebyheidi.blogspot.com/

Butterflies

I was walking up the driveway to my daughter's house and all of these Zinnia's had the most beautiful butterflies.  I had to have some photos to share.  We have had no rain and it's very dry here.  The trees are dropping their leaves so we won't have the colorful fall, our lawns are brown and I am so sick of watering and just keeping my flowers going.

Isn't this sad?  I love flowers and all the green of summer.  It has been so hot that the heat index is over a hundred most days.  Well I gotta go water.

ModPodge Week-end and Garage Sale Find

This lamp is my garage sale find.  It was soooo hot that I was only going to the post office but I saw a sign and diverted down an alley.  This is a heavy lamp made of metal with a glass shade.  I asked how much he wanted for it and he said make an offer.  I had $4.00 and he took it.  This is an expensive lamp and I love it.  It is going to sit on my desk but my desk is messy so I put it on this little table to take a photo.

Like Blue Birds?  I saw these at the $1.00 store and I liked them so well that I purchased 3!  I thought they would look lovely hanging on my friends wall.

But

then

I

used

Mod Podge

and

this is how they look!!

I purchased this scrap book paper in one of the big books (80 papers) on clearance at Joann's for $7.97.  I also purchased 2  other ones for that price but one of them has 180 papers!

My friend Mod Podge!!  I am using almost a bottle of this a week!!

I can't get the photo of the before picture of this chair to load.  I used Mod Podge on this and guess what I used as paper??????????

This is paper napkins that I have had for 15 years in a package!  You have to peel the backing from the napkins and this one had 3 layers.  Put the glue on the item and then lay the napkin on.  I don't think you could ever get it smooth and I didn't try as I liked this look.

Here is the chair with the seat just laying on top and I thought that I might use this fabric to cover the seat but it is too BLAH!  I'll have to keep looking through my fabric until I find the right one.  Any ideas?
I'll post a photo when I figure it out!!

Penguins Christmas Quilt Top

The cat woke me up at 4:30 AM this morning and I couldn't go back to sleep.  I got up had a cup of coffee, started some laundry, worked on a quilt block and then thought I should put this baby together.  All of the blocks were completed and yesterday I had laid them out but then this morning I changed the layout. 

I have soooo many UFOs that I'm embarrassed.  My problem is that I'm not a quilter but a block maker.  This has to change!!  So anyway, this is a small quilt that I sewed together today.  With the pumpkin Halloween quilt, Disappearing 9 Patch, this quilt, and a 9 Patch top I think that it is time to do something!!!

Are these not cute Happy Blocks?  There's enough left over for a baby quilt so I may sew those together also.  Of course it's not even 8am this morning so I think that I have plenty of time before bedtime tonight.  Maybe there will be another post yet today to show you more.  Are there other people out there that like to make the blocks but don't get the quilts together very often?  What do you do?  I have enough blocks that I could make at least 8 more quilt tops!!!  Maybe more.  Give me guidance!!  HELP!!! 

Okay I guess that is enough dramatics for now.  I'm going to sew another top!  This is another Halloween one with black cats in witches hats that wants to be put together!!!!

Disappearing 9 Patch

I keep seeing all of these Disappearing 9 Patch quilts and I love them.  I took yesterday and today off work and I found 26 9 patch blocks that I had won or made on one of the groups a few years ago.  I have to say that they were not really that pretty and some had very very thin fabric but I thought they would be perfect to make a throw for winter and get some practice.  Here they are cut up and some have been sewn.

The following shots are the top done and I haven't even pressed it yet.  So this is what you can do with some not so pretty 9 patch blocks and turn it into a BEAUTY!!!

I did not try to come up with any special design when putting them together.  This is going to be used to cover up with on the sofa this winter and I'm thinking of putting fleece on the back for extra warmth.

I would recommend that you try this and here is a link where I got my instructions.

http://www.psiquilt.com/2009/03/disappearing-9-patch-tutorial-super.html

Have a great day/evening and I hope to finish this over the week-end and I'll let you see.

Another Decoupage Table

Two Posts in One Day!!  I finished a table that I had started quite a while ago and I thought that I would share.  This is the original table that I purchased at a garage sale for $4.00.

This is the top of the table after I decoupaged it.

This is the legs that I painted with some craft paint so that I didn't have to cut a zillion pieces of paper.  I love it and my granddaughters' love it.

I'm joining the gang over at Funky Junk Interiors and do they have a lot of things this week.  Need ideas?  This is the place to go!!!
http://funkyjunkinteriors.blogspot.com/