hoops and hoops

I scored all of these hoops at the Goodwill for $6.00!!! I don't really have any plans for them but can't pass up a deal like that. Right? ; ) 

A Quilt Re-model

How sweet is this quilt? It is pretty rough for sure. I got it out of a storage unit that had been abandoned. My plan is to take all of the plate appliques off and repair the few that need it. Mostly its the center circles that have holes and the backing matches the circles so I'll have to use the backing to fix the plates. Im really excited to get it put back together and have a new/old quilt.

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.