bird mobile

Finally got around to making a bird mobile from the spool sewing tutorial. I exclusively used fabric received in a patchwork-themed fabric swap a few months ago. The mobile shown was gifted to my sister-in-law for her birthday. It serves as decoration in her somewhat bare living room.

These birds are addictive to work on. It’s fun to dig through my scrap box and pull together interesting fabric combinations. They’re also a great project to work on while otherwise distracted. These were all constructed as the Mister and I furiously worked out way through the last few seasons of Doctor Who (the library only lets you check out a season for a week). My plan is to add more birds to the leftover pile and pull together a slightly more elaborate set-up for some lonely corner of our house.

chronicle books giveaway

I entered a giveaway for Chronicle Book’s Crafty Stickers over on Linda Permann’s blog a few weeks ago. It feels like I’m always entering these things and never winning, but I won this one.

The book of stickers came in yesterday’s mail and they’re adorable. I love them. Chronicle threw in a surprise, too. Not only do I now have my own copy of Crafty Stickers, but also Dutch Door Press Labels & Stickers, which are just lovely. Really lovely.

Thanks again Linda & Chronicle Books.

I have a ton of crafty projects to write up and post here & on my flickr account, but there’s not enough light in the morning and by the time I get home from work, the light is gone. I hope to get some of the documenting done this weekend.

the beginnings of something

Our bed is in serious need of a summer-weight quilt and I’ve been wanting to make a quilt for myself for over a year.  I’ll solve both problems by pulling together a coin quilt.

The quilt is based on the Stacked Coin Quilt from Last Minute Patchwork & Quilted Gifts, but will be constructed differently because some of the scraps I wanted to incorporate weren’t large enough. Here’s to all those little rectangles become awesome like the quilts I’ve collected as inspiration.

There’s also a 2009 Coin Quilt piece-along going on. I sorta missed their starting by a few months, but I’m hoping to catch up and have this baby finished up by the mid-summer.

fabric-y spring goodness

Just popping in to show off a couple of projects I finished in the last week.

First up is a curtain I made for the bathroom.

The mister refuses to part with our old skull & crossbones shower curtain. I think a patchwork curtain certainly cutes it up a bit. The orange & red match the other bathroom accessories.

Second, I’ve been wanting to make a wreath for our front door and I finally got around to it last weekend.

Using this semi-tutorial from lindamade I turned an old lime green floral sheet into an adorable wreath for our front door. It still needed something, so that’s where the little birdie, complete with wings, came in. Yellow rickrack for hanging. I think it would look nice with a 3-dimensional bird, so I’m contemplating making one of the birds from spool’s bird mobile to hang out in the wreath.

donut muffins

These muffins are just perfect. The muffin is delicious and fluffy but the powdered sugar adds just the right amount sweetness to make them absolutely divine.