Yeah, it’s April. So sue me.
Posts Categorized: home furnishings
Bathroom rug
Does it look familiar? It’s the same pattern as the afghan I made for Steve below but in different colors and a cotton yarn. My old bathroom rug had faded to the point where it was basically white, although it started out in colors similar to these. As it faded, it also became very thin,… Read more »
Drapes for Todd
These were actually finished back in January but it took him a while to get them hung and then even longer for me to get over there to take a photo. He went out and bought some nice bronze tie-backs for them and they look great. The fabric he chose was really too heavy to… Read more »
Last batch of bowls
My machine has died. I guess it wasn’t meant to do so much satin stitching through so many layers of fabric. Here are the last three bowls it managed to turn out before biting the dust.
Holiday bowls
Can you say obsessed? I started working with my stash of holiday fabric. This is the basic square pattern but I made it smaller. The size called for in the book makes a pretty big bowl. I ran out of the gold thread I was using so this one has a different color thread along… Read more »
Fabric Bowls
When I first read through Fast, Fun & Easy Fabric Bowls I was a little intimidated by the unusual materials and the need to do satin stitching which I’d never done on my machine. So I put the book away for a while. What a mistake! It turns out that the fabric bowls really are… Read more »
Basket weaving
Remember in high school how “basket weaving” meant a gimme class? Maybe we should have tried it. I think basket weaving requires more hands than I have. This was made from a kit. I got better at it as I went around but you can see that my shaping efforts fall somewhat short or perfect… Read more »
Sewing room and futon cover
I’ve been slowly making my spare bedroom over into a sewing room, replacing furniture pieces with more functional (and more attractive) ones. I needed to keep the futon chair and ottoman which turn into a single bed for when my grandmother comes to visit, so I made new covers for them to match the new… Read more »
Afghan for Lisa
Lisa selected the pattern for this very lacy afghan. It’s made from Caron’s Simply Soft yarn so it’s beautifully soft and light. The funny part about this afghan is that the border is about half the total afghan. When I finished the body of the afghan, I thought I was just about done and was… Read more »
Chair reclaimed from trash
Twice a year my town has what we call “big trash day” where you can put out large items for collection. Pickup trucks and strollers will cruise the neighborhood, checking out the sidewalk sale. On the last big trash day, I contributed a couple of items that were claimed almost immediately. Then Todd and I… Read more »