Who's that behind those Foster Grants?

You may be too young to remember that commercial.  The last person I remember saying 

"who's that behind those Foster Grants?" is Sophia Loren.

   You gotta love a man in a mustache (not to mention the big bushy eyebrows)

Lot's of golf and football around her this weekend,

so I really got a lot of sewing done.

When is the last time you had a pencil case?

People must use them since there are patterns for them.

I really hated cutting into this typewriter fabric.  I have 

two different colors.  I was going to use 

it to make covered journals, but now I'm thinking Ipad

covers.  I can't believe I left that piece of lint on it.  

OK, 

so I decided to move out of pencil case mode and

into gift/toy bag mode.

The lighting wasn't very good for any of this photos.

Below is the post photo session  photo.

There is never anything on the table you can eat.

Really, my kitchen table (and whole house) pretty much looks like this all the time, just

different stuff on different days.

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"I'll have the wristlet, please"

I'm sure you will hear people saying that 

over and over at my show.

And when you see this, you'll say it, too.

tadaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!

OK,

time to give the elephants a rest.  I just

wanted to see if I could make this.

Being the first try, it was pretty labor intensive.

I vowed I would not print out the pattern

 (I bought new ink yesterday, and really need

to conserve) 

so I set up my laptop by my sewing machine

and scrolled then sewed, scrolled then ironed, scrolled then cut.

Now, I'm gonna take 

it for a trial run at the 

Walmart.

I'm drinkin the craft show Koolaid

One of my favorite bloggers wrote several posts

about getting ready to do her first craft show.

I swore I'd never do another craft show

but the lure of breaking even was too 

strong to resist.

I'm just going to offer everything I have made

for sale, and I'm making some new items.

Drum roll, please!!
My new business card, designed by me.
 It will double as a price tag and
will be attached to the item by sewing
a strip of fabric to the top.
Not an original idea, but a great one.

I''m pretty happy with they way 
they turned, but if I ever make any money, 
I'd like to have a color other than white. and will put my
blog address on it.

I'm still trying  to use up the
elephant fabric.  Hope I can get more if
I need it.  ]

The 241 bag.

I'm gonna ask a lot for these pillows, 
because I adore them!!!!!

They are identical  The back is facing on
the one of the left, and the front is facing
on the one on the right. 
Believe it, or not, the
zip is hidden under the print piece running
across the back.

I have to admit, I'm impressed with myself.

 So is Barney.

OK, one more.

This little bag is made from fabric I won.

I think I will change the tie, but is does look better  in person.

Well, that's the craft show round up for today.
I do have several other things I'm working
on so, save up your money and make 
me rich.

men at work

I'm still working on spiffing up my blog. 

 I wanted something a little more colorful, but have gone way overboard.

I think I need professional help.

Under construction

I'm in the process of making a new header for my blog.    I installed

 Google Chrome to make it, and hate, hate, hate, Google Chrome. 

So I need to find a better way.

I just won my second fabric give away.  Yea me!!!!!!

I have been eyeing this for a while and soon it will be mine.

Falalalala

SaVe me!!!

Well, it has really been busy around here, what with being on the Olympic sewing team and all. 

I’m also participating in a scrap block swap hosted by Katy  at

imagingermonkey.blogspot.com

It is called “Scrap Vomit”, “SV” for short.  All I have to do is make 4 blocks, consisting

 forty-nine two and a half inch squares, and mail one to each of four people.  One of them is Katy, herself.  Talk about pressure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 Katy’s description of scrap vomit is  "like the most disgusting mess of fabrics chucked up on a table. Somehow it looks beautiful put together.”

Is this what she has in mind?

The last time I participated in a quilt thing involving scraps, the 12 year old hosting it

(at a local quilt shop) accused me of not making quilts out of all the scraps I brought in. 

Sew I buy scraps - it’s not against the law.  Just because you buy fabric doesn’t mean you have to make anything with it.  And if you don’t make anything with it, you don’t have scraps. 

Sew there!

But now I am really nervous.  Will I be accused of cheating if the pieces I use for the blocks are from fabric I bought that has just been sitting around waiting for me to use it?

Wow, who signed me up for this?

Will it matter if some of the fabrics are pretty?  Will it matter if some of the fabrics have bugs, and trucks, and cars?  How ‘bout the Eiffel Tower?  Would it be too corny to fussy cut some of the squares?  I found a 2.5”fussy cut ruler the other day I don’t even remember buying.

Well, whatever!

 I am going to use this as an opportunity to organize my fabrics, and perhaps get rid of some I don’t think I’ll use (two so far).  I ordered some cardboard, yesterday, to wrap my fabric around so it will stand up and I can see what I have.  I ordered two hundred.  Sounds like a lot.  Forty nine sounds like a lot, but I cut that many yesterday and it didn’t make a dent. 

Here are some of the 49 fabrics that made the cut.

Let the games begin!

Here's what we have so far.

OK, sew, we have the sewing Olympics, the SV quilt along, I also have to make a block for guild for a “quilts of valor” quilt.  I think I’ll use scraps (ha!) for that.

Then there is the Christmas quilt my Olympic teammate, Paula, and I are making.  The big girl bed quilt.  I won’t even talk about my UFO’s, but I think I will finish them after the holidays (is it too soon to say “after the holidays?”)

I think I need an intervention.

The sewing olympics

I'm going out for the Olympic Sewing Team.  It involves a lot of shopping preparation.

I bought a Kona Candy Corn  fat quarter bundle on Ebay. 

I have an Ebay history. 

 Bidding on stuff I don't really want and then praying I don't get it.  That went on till I bought my

second featherweight and swore off. (althougth I did really want it).

Sew, today, I was looking for Kona solid bundles to do Geta Grama's Urban Delight quilt. 

I don't know how I ended up on Ebay. 

I found one of the bundles I had been looking at and thought it was a bargain

 (and free shipping).  Then I got an email asking me for money.  The auction's over??????  Well, I still got the free shipping, even though the price was the same as I had seen elsewhere.  Well, at least it's on it's way (for free, too.)

 Is this not toooo beautiful?? 

It will be a full size bed quilt. 

I really wasn't going to do any more bed sized quilts, but I am

starting to get into color.  I love prim

and civil war fabric, but I've done them

so much.

Below is the quilt I'm making for the what we call

the "big girl bed" (queen size).

and here I am ready to cut some of the fabric.  So far I've

only miscut about a yard of fabric. 

and below is me

finishing up a certain birthday quilt.

quilt, quilt, quilt 

This guy growled at me.

bind, bind, bind

I love these clips.  this quilt is now all done.

But since it is a birthday

surprise (even though the giftee knows she's getting it

and has been seeing it on my blog since January)

I will not show the completely finished quilt

till I give it to her.

Here is a table runner that is almost finished.

A sunglasses case -

finished

This sunglasses case

is a prototype.  I will be making eight of them.

Look who found his way into

the Peacedgoods Studio.

AKA Heart Attack Jack.

I plan to have him sewing before the

end of the year.

My cuz, Paula, and I

are going to make table toppers with this

cute Christmas fabric.

OK

I think that brings you all up to date

on what's going on around here.