Fabric/Ribbon Wreath Tutorial

I needed a new fall wreath for my front door and got out my fabric scrap bins and decided to do something about it!  I really love how it turned out and looks great on my front door!  I thought I'd share a quick tutorial with ya'll because it was such an easy wreath to make! 

Have a bunch of smaller scraps that you don't know what to do with??  Left over Jelly Roll and Honey Bun strips??  Ribbon remnants??  This is the perfect project for you to spruce up your home with!

Materials:

Wreath Frame of your choice

glue gun

sewing machine

fabric to cover wreath frame

fabric and ribbon scraps of various sizes: none of mine were longer than 4 inches

I started with a flat wooden wreath frame (you can get them at Michael's and other craft stores) and covered it with orange fabric.

Then I chained A BUNCH of fabric and ribbon scraps together.  Fold the fabric in half wrong sides together and sew along the open edges so it makes a loop!

Here is a close up of the chaining.  Chaining is when you just keep sewing pieces together without cutting the thread.  It makes it a lot faster!

After I cut all the chains, I opened up each fabric piece at the seam and put hot glue right on the seam. 

Then I just placed the fabric and ribbon pieces randomly around the frame until it was super full and looked like I wanted it to!! 

That's it ya'll!!  See I told you it was super easy and fun!  Now go make one for your door!  If you make one let me know; I would love to see it!

Bee Blocks and Baby!

9 of us in my guild, STLMQG, meet every month and swap bee blocks!! 

July/August was Kristy's month and here are her two blocks I made.

August/September is JuliAnn's month and here are her two blocks I made.

 September/October is MY month and here are the two sample blocks that I made!  Yes, I cut into my Tula Pink Neptune stash...EEEEKKK!!  But it felt so good and I can't wait to make a quilt with everyone's blocks!



Here are a couple shots of my growing belly!  I'm 20 weeks this week but I took these pictures last week when I was at 19 weeks!!  My tummy definitely is popping out a lot more! :)  LOVE IT!

On Monday I will be at 21 weeks!  So exciting!  This little boy is going to be so spoiled (at least with quilts anyway)!!



New MBS!

Just thought I'd share these lovely fabrics that came in the mail last week from Moda!  These will magically turn into my next Moda Bake Shop project (hopefully soon!)  Of course they are like the most girly fabrics ever and all I can think about is having a little boy!!  Ya'll should definitely buy some of this fabric line, it's so pretty and did you see that houndstooth?? LOVE!

And I don't know about you, but don't you like sleeping in scrap bins?  LOL!!!  I'm sewing and look to my right and see this pretty girl laying in the yellow scrap bin!  Izzy decided that it was too full so she pushed some out and then layed in it!  Looks comfortable right? HA!  What would I do without these crazy cats?!?!



New Dress!

What does an old tank top, a yardish of fabric and some elastic equal????   A cute new maternity dress!  I'm pretty sure I can wear this after baby too!!  I love how this turned out!  I don't normally make clothes but I was kinda in the mood today; what do ya'll think??

It's a..................

BOY!!!

I know it's the same photo as before but oh well!! I just wanted to let everyone know that Jon and I are having a BOY!!!  We are so excited and can't wait to meet our little man!  Thanks for all the prayers and well wishes!  Pregnancy is going well and everything looked good at the ultrasound!  Now it's time to get sewing :)

Fabrics

I have a few custom quilts coming up that I need to make by Thanksgiving and today I went fabric shopping!!!  I was there for a while and came home with all of these lovelies!!

The first three photos are for custom quilts I will be working on and the last photo is of a couple awesomes that I had to get for myself.  Who goes fabric shopping and doesn't buy for their stash right?? :) 

Enjoy the fabric porn!!

 

MMM Swap

I participated in the Make Mine Modern Swap again!!  Today was the deadline to send and I made it just in time!  I highly recommend participating in this swap, it's always super fun and inspiring!

Here is what I made for my partner!  She hasn't received it yet so I can't say too much about it because I don't want to give it away!   I forgot to take a photo of all the goodies so hopefully she will when she gets them!  I made her this pillow that was inspired by a quilt made by the amazing Tula Pink!!  What do ya'll think??

Rip Rip Rip Challenge

Two meetings ago at the STLMQG we were presented with the Rip, Rip, Rip Challenge.

Here were the official rules: You must make something (quilt, table runner, market bag, etc) that is bigger then a placement using 4 of the 5 fabrics that you received during the Ripping game. You can add any additional fabrics that you choose, just make sure that each of the 4 fabrics are clearly represented somewhere in the project. You may be asked to point them out, so be prepared. The finished item must be brought to the August 13th meeting, in order for you to be eligible for any prizes.

Think creatively and have fun!!

This was a super fun challenge and here is what I came up with!  I started with least lovely fabrics:

I brought the dots on the left and came home with the rest!

Here is what I came up with:

A cathedral windows pillow!!!  I used all 5 of the fabrics I received plus I added the white solid to tone it down a bit and really love how this pillow turned out!!  What do ya'll think? 

Here is the back of the pillow!!

Man, does it feel good to be sewing again!!! YEAH!!



And I'm back!!

Hey ya'll,

I know it's been awhile and I'm sorry!  The hubby and I are pretty much all moved in to our 1st house and we couldn't be more excited!! It's everything we've always wanted and we just LOVE our house!!  Once I finish organizing my sewing room (yep I have a large sewing room that is amazing) I will post some photos!  First, I thought I'd give you an update on our little one!  I will be 16 weeks tomorrow and this pregnancy has been wonderful!  The first trimester was great, I did not have any morning sickness or throw up ever (still thanking God for that!!) the only thing was that I was SUPER tired all of the time!! That was an adjustment going from a super hyper person to being dead tired! But now I'm into the second trimester and have my energy back!! Woo hoo just in time to sew sew sew!!  We find out what this little nuggest is on the 25th and I can't wait!  Of course I'm making all of the nursery decor so I can't wait to find out so I can get going on that while I still can!  I haven't sewn too much lately because of the move.  I did make some felt food for my nephews birthday!  I'll share photos of that later this week!  For now I will leave ya'll with this photo of my belly!  Yes, those are maternity shorts and if you're wondering, AMAZING, it's like wearing jammies all day long and not looking like a slob!  :)  I'm so excited to be back in blogland...I've missed it!!

EXCITED!!

Hey ya'll!!

Sorry I've been a little quiet around here....BUT I have a good reason!!! I'm 9 weeks pregnant!!! Oh, AND if that wasn't enough we're buying a house because my husband got his dream job up in STL....SOOOOOO I've been busy packing, eating, and sleeping! :)  I will be a little quiet around here for the next month, we're closing in the middle of July, but promise I will try to update ya'll when I can!  Not too much sewing going on...lots of packing!  Thanks for all the warm wishes!!

These are our nephews Jordan and Xavier...I appliqued them shirts when I found out and this is how we told Jon's parents and sister!!  The boys were so excited!!

Yep, already pointing to my tummy!! LOVE!

These are some silly boys!!  Thanks for all the cute photos Rachel!!!