Checkbook Cover

I made two checkbook covers using the tutorial found here. Mine is blue and green:

This picture is just to show off the cute ribbon I used (you can't see any personal information!)I made this one for my mom. She loves red.This is a really great way to use up scraps.

Want to Make: Fabric Flowers

No-Sew version!
cute with a button in the middle.
for a shirt.
a fabric flower broach using scraps.
using wire for the edges
Really love this fabric.
adorable garland idea (looks good from both sides, need interfacing)
No-sew rolled flowers

flowers with fabric stiffener! stiff without interfacing!

Here's a great project that just includes fabric flowers: fabric cased necklace! LOVE this!!

A great idea for how to use fabric flowers on a cuff band!

Baby Shoes!

It was a baby shoe factory (or sweat shop, as my husband likes to say) here this weekend. I made a bunch of these cute baby shoes:

I'll share a how-to in the next few days!

Another Baby Blanket

I've got a baby shower to go to ... or I should say "A Sprinkle" (meaning a baby shower but on a smaller scale).

Of course, I wanted to make something. I found a really cute fabric remnant of monkeys at the store. But it wasn't quite wide enough to make a good-sized blanket. I have discovered babies outgrow the teeny-tiny blankets from the store way too fast!

I added two strips of pink fabric (matched the monkeys) to the sides of the blanket. After sewing them (right sides together) I pressed the front so it would lay flat.
Then I pinned it to the yellow flannel back. I cut off the excess from the sides to make it nice and square.I sewed it right sides together, leaving a hole for turning. Then I pressed the sides to make them nice and crisp and then top stitched all around the edges. I made sure to close the hole for turning.

Finished!Up close:

Eversave: $50 of Cards for $20

If you don't have Christmas Cards yet, you've got to join Eversave and buy today's deal. You get $50 of cards for only $20. If you're a new customer for Eversave, you get a $2 credit, so it really only is $18.

I'm kicking myself for ordering from Walmart already...these cards look much cuter and probably would've been less expensive!