Tolentreasures

That's right, you get to pick. from any of these purses, and six or so of these eggs and some other goodies also! This is going to work a little different. 1. Comment on this post for one entry. 2. For every time that you have commented in the last month, you get another entry. (Just a little way of helping out those that are here regularly.) 3.If you choose to post about this on your blog, make sure that you tell me and you get another entry! That's it. Drawing Sunday! April Fool's Day!

Are you getting tired of this fabric yet?  There is a lot more of it scattered around my sewing room still. I made this simple bag last night in under two hours.  It could be any size, use your imagination.  I am just using these samples and this is made working with the size that they are.  You will need: 2 - 16 x 12 inch pieces of outer fabric 2 - 16 x 12 inch pieces of interfacing 2 - 16 x 12 inch pieces of lining fabric 2 - 4 x 16 inch pieces of fabric for handles 2 - 3 x 16 inch pieces of interfacing. 1 - 3 1/2 x 13 piece of cardboard, Plexiglas, etc for base of tote.  (Don't cut this yet, you will measure later to get the exact measurements for your tote. Decorations of choice.   I used a 4 x 12 inch piece of fabric and ric rac.  Be creative! Step 1.  Begin by decorating the front and/or back of your bag.  I laid the 4 inch piece of fabric on the front, and sewed the edges with a zig zag stitch and then sewed ric rac ove...

Not BIG security issues, just little baby/toddler security issues.  My older daughter had a blanket, well actually two blankets, but I am not sure that she knew that.  You see, she carried one of those white thermal receiving blankets everywhere she went.  I kept one hidden so that we could always have a Clean Leave the House Blanket on hand.  My younger daughter was much easier, she had her thumb, always available and always with her.  A little harder to break than the blanket security.  It was somewhere in the first month of kindergarten when she was trying to hold her pencil and write with her thumb still in her mouth, right handed, right-thumbed, picture it?  Now for the grand kids:  Tyler had a Binky, a certain Binky that he had to have.  I had about six of them at my house, never wanting to be out of one and not be able to find one.  He hasn't used it in two years, I recently found one in my nightstand.  See how often I clean...

Part of last night was spent cutting and this morning was cutting and pressing.  These are to be the favors for Dianna's baby shower.  Luckily, my Mom has agreed to help out and has about 30 cut and some sewn.  I have not counted what I have cut so far, just got tired of cutting and am now going to start sewing for awhile.  We think that we are going to need around 60 of them. This is the first one.  Actually somewhere along the last couple of weeks, I lost my change purse so the first one was mine. Thirty more to go. I found this table runner in Port Washington and knew immediately that it would make a birthday gift for a friend of mine.  Yesterday morning, I whipped it into this pillow for her.  The stitching on it was so pretty.  it always make me wonder about the person that made it. Well, I am off to sew.  One more day of work today and then the long holiday weekend!  I hope that everyone has a safe, fun holiday weekend and...