This is NOT a Tablecloth!

I might be slow as molasses but I am trying to make things with my fabric stash that I can use or give as gifts. I think that I'll make the gifts for next year..lol..because at the rate I'm going, I'll have one present ready for my family. Last year I made my Mom a scrapbook cook book which you can find in one of my September posts. I tried to link it but I guess since I didn't put a title on it, I can't link. Silly me. I was a baby blogger back then. Now I'm an infant one since I do know how to link thanks to my coworker at Imaginary
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Today I am featuring my current (ahem ONE of my) WIP's. No, it's not a tablecloth like my DS thinks. It's a tree skirt. I cheated and bought the applique..at the Dollar Tree..of all places. I went to the biggest Dollar Tree I have ever seen today. It was the size of a Kmart for crying out loud. I spent 46.00 there, so you do the math. I had a cart load! I cut the crooked (not supposed to be crooked but I can't cut circles out apparently) circle out, hid my flaws with some thrifted lace, and sewed some ribbon around the cut for the tree and then I looked at it and thought, ummmmm now what. It's pretty plain! I went to the stash of stuff I bought today and took this little Santa wall hanging and pinned it to the skirt...yeah yeah..this will work...okay and now how am I to sew this on?? Well, apparently I'm not going to sew it with my machine. Either there is a trick that I don't know or it just won't work because I got as far as the boots and that's as far as my needle would plunge. Okay, I suppose I need to do like they did in the olden days (haha) and pull out my regular needles and let my fingers do the walkin' for the rest of it!

I will probably add some bows and who knows what else. I have imagination, I'm lacking the skills to get too fancy. Baby steps, I tell myself, baby steps!

I hope everyone is gearing up for a festive turkey day! Mine is going to be a little different than normal years. My Mom asked if I was going somewhere because she didn't want me to be alone....awww.....so I need to announce that yes I will be going somewhere, have no fear...I'll go to Ken's Mom's house. I like cooking though, so that's my dilemna....so I bought two turkeys anyway. I'll cook on Sunday for the kids and have another one saved up for Christmas. How could I resist at 37 cents a lb?? LOL It's very hard to cook for just a couple of people though, especially one those couple of people are picky eaters. If it isn't chicken nuggets or pizza, I'm dead in the water. Well, I'll cook it anyway and maybe this will be the year DS branches out and grows taste buds.

lucy

Sew WHAT??

One of my latest projects is simply learning how to sew. This grew from being addicted to HGTV and seeing all the wonderful things you can create with a simple machine. I had visions of creating cushions, pillows, curtains, quilts (even though I have no idea how to quilt...I'd surely figure it out!), heck, even reupholster all the furniture just for the fun of it. Well, 6 months later, I have 5 pillows, 2 chair cushions (okay small pillows for the back of the chair...geez..let me have my glory), a few quilt squares started...and that's about it! Well I take that back because 2 weeks ago my mommainlaw to be and I made curtains for my living room, kitchen, sliding glass doors, a couple of pairs for my boys room, and the computer room. I just can't take all the credit for the project because I was delegated to ironing and designing....she'd did the sewing (I'd still be sitting at the table more than likely to this day otherwise). We didn't use any patterns so they aren't perfect but dang we are proud because we did it ourselves. I suppose that is the best gratification we get from sewing, painting, crafting, or whatever else it is that you do that floats your boat-to see what you can create using your imagination and your own hands. There's nothing better! I'm thrilled with what we created, but when I look back at the last few months that I have had my new machine, I thought I'd be sooooo much further along in my sewing, I'm a little disappointed at my output of wonderful things.

I also love to yard sale and thrift. The pillow above with the fringe was made from fabric I found at the Sandhills Coalition. It cost me 35 cents for the fabric (the blue was 10 cents, and the yellow was a quarter!!! WHOOOO HOOOO. The fringe was in a grab bag for a dollar that has about a million other pieces in it, so I guess that cost is about 5 or 10 cents..lol. What a find, huh?? I have a whole tub full of remnants I have been scavenging from the Coalition, yard sales, and even Walmart. I have no reason not to create wonderful things other than the fact I read too much about other peoples wonderful creations!!! Okay on to more procrastinating, have a great Friday tomorrow!