Over the weekend I decided to make the cute owl I found on Pinterest. I cut out my fabrics last week to save some time so I didn’t have to do all the steps at once. Anyway I was pretty excited about the color combos I had picked out. My original goal had been to use a fancy, thick stitch around the face, eyes, nose and body. Then I would sew the little guy up. Well this is pretty much…
Seriously, how hard is it to just do your job and do it well? It continues to amaze me how people just “forget” to do something. Something freaking so simple. GRRRRR! *small rant over* In other news I have found the cutest (I hope) owl sewing template. I was inspired by my friend Christi over at Beach Dreams and Love Always. She posted the cutest little owl yesterday on Facebook. (She is an amazing sewer, too bad she doesn’t live…
I am happy to report my first Pinterest project (for the blog) is complete. There was lots of cussing and I’m pretty sure I used a half a roll of thread but my frog is complete! Actually it looked like the sewing machine threw up on me tonight. I had thread everywhere. Okay so here’s how it happened. The other night I set up my new sewing machine and cut out my pattern. I had quite a few issues with…
I got my frog cut out and pinned. And I may have one seam done. Yeeeeaaaaahhhh, I’m having some issues with my corners. I thought I just needed to pick the foot up and turn my fabric but this doesn’t seem to be working. Hmmm. I guess I’m gonna have to go back to the book. So maybe a cute little frog wasn’t quite the best first project but I’m gonna stick with it. I know I can get this….
So one thing kind of lead to another. Yesterday while I was blowing up perusing Pinterest I stumbled cross this cute little guy, a frog bean bag. The a little later I saw an idea for homemade heating pads using rice or beans. Hmmm. {You see where this is going right?} Of course I thought I could totally do this. AND I have a sewing machine I’ve been dying to use. This afternoon on Matt’s way home he stopped by…