How Cool Are These

The McCalls are awesome, the Christmas one is from '63 and the summer one is from '68. I love the colors of the summer one.

Broken Zippers

All of the jeans on my sons pants refuse to stay up.

I decieded to turn them into button fly jeans instead of trying to replace the zippers, because who wants to do that? I took the old zippers out

 I cut the zipper out as close to the seam as I could.

 Then I took the other side out with my seam ripper

 Then I snipped the zipper as far down as I could

 I used grossgrain ribbon 2x the length of the zipper, which I folded over and then sewed a straight stitch down each side

 then I added a button hole with my nifty automatic button holer

 I then sewed my ribbon to the fly

 then I added my button (which Dallas picked out) and voila! a fixed pair of pants so that I'm not constantly reminding my sweet boy to zip up his pants and that makes both of us happy :) I'm sure that this is not the only way to do this and probably not the easiest, but it's what made sense to me.

It's chilly out...

so I stayed inside today and made these

this one is for me, I needed a little pouch to take with me to the gym

and this cute little thing matches my sisters theme for the nursery, its my favorite, I think its adorable. I started with Anna's tutorial for her lil cutie pouches. So cute and easy.

Rosettes

Well I got a couple wicker wreaths at the Dollar Tree and as I was looking around blogland to find inspiration I saw some cute rosette Valentine's Day items and had an ah-ha moment. I started with this

and then this

and it ended up like this

I'm not too sure about it. I think its missing something. If you know what it is let me know :)

A Gift

Today is Belinda's Birthday, and to celebrate I made her bias tape. I was not too sure how this would go since generally making my bindings is not so fun, but I bought a nifty bias tape maker from my LQS and it turned out to be one of the mindless tasks thats sort of relaxing.

Sweet Little Shoes

Over at Shwin&Shwin they've got a super cute tut/pattern for soft-sole mary janes which can be found here


I mean seriously, how cute are these?

Scrappy Hexigons

So after traveling through blogland yesterday I decided to give paper foundation hexigons a go. I'm going to make a throw pillow using the scraps from my its a hoot charm packs. I am using a template found here. I hope I do become addicted to them like everyone else seems to be because it will give me a fun portable project. Unfortunately I've been sick the last few days so who knows when I'm even going to finish the projects I've got going on now  :)

Scrappy Charity

I do love to sew but I've been missing my first crafting love. Crochet. So rather than planning a project I just dug into my misc yarn balls and started a lap size afghan. Its super simple front post single crochet. I have to admit that I'm itching to get to some hexi's but I have way too many projects half started or the stuff purchased and sitting on my desk in the sewing/family room. I'll show you what it looks like when the afghan is finished.