hexagons

What I've been obsessed with lately..

hand sewing little hexagons together

call me crazy, but I love making them

Sunshine quilt finished!

yay! I'm done! I've been carrying it around the house with me ever since I finished it.

Waving happily in the breeze :)

Sneak peek of the back, I didn't really do anything special

Well there it is, I can't wait to start my next one!

Chibi-ness

Been making a bunch of zipper pouches using scraps and incorporating anime inspired embroidery

Been reading a lot of manga, which helps

And of course, a mushroom

Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!

Embroidery

Octopus embroidery that is now framed and hanging on my wall

embroidery inspired by the Ingrid Michaelson song "Locked up" from her new cd

close up of heart key

Coldplay embroidery

Coldplay embroidery that I incorporated in a zippy pouch I made

The back

hand stamped label :)

Quilt update

The result of the little amount of sewing I've been able to do in the last few weeks. I can't wait till its done. Its getting chillier outside and I'd love to be able snuggle up in my homemade quilt and watch a good BBC, (sigh) but not yet. I kept thinking "Maybe I can finish it this week" which turned to "Maybe I can finish a row this week" and more realistically to  "Maybe I can finish a block this week" 

I am really loving the sunshiney yellow, it makes me happy just looking at it

A thank you to the kiddies who held it up for pictures :) You can see wellies peeking out in the first picture

Crafty jumble

Finished decoupage-ing the notebook I started long ago. (sorry Aaron!) 

A row in the quilt I'm making. And yes, I'm making it for me :D

experimental quilt block. Conclusion: too much work

Some yummy new fabric

got some lovely japanese prints too <3

And of course, I keep doodling. Just a brief crafty update. :)

Quilt finished (finally!)

I finished it! yay! After ripping it out several times and then putting it all back together, its finally completed.  Sorry the pictures are so grainy, it was raining so I had to take them inside.

Here's the back.

close up of the front

Is it weird that after all that ripping and re-sewing I still want to make another quilt?

Quick post

One post before I go to the beach for two weeks! yay! Above is the beach bag I made out of a IKEA slipcover. Not bad for 99 cents.

Some Shakespearian embroidery

and some doodle embroidery. 

Whoops

I do feel bad that I haven't been blogging faithfully. I think my last post was a month ago. Whoops. I have been up to a lot of crafty things, so don't worry. I started knitting again (much to my mothers delight) as you can see by the smidgen of a sock above.

 Decoupage-ing some stuff right now. Canvas, notebooks. 

The results of my bargain hunting at IKEA. The green fabric was 49 cents and I was able to get the patterned slipcover for 99 cents. Its going to be made into a beach bag. :D

The Black and green fabric was probably the most expensive thing I got at IKEA. $3 for half a yard. The black and white fabric was also 99 cents (smiles smugly). I  got some fat quarters at the local quilt shop.

Yes, another doodle. Tell me when you grow tired of them.

Ninja power

Hopefully two new mascots for my youth camp team. :) The first one I tried to sew was so pathetic looking, I'm not going to even show you. I think these are pretty good. They're complete with shuriken and ninja weapons.

The thing on his leg is not a bandage its a weapon holder. 

a little bag for holding all the cool stuff ninja need. The ribbon loops on the back of them is so I can hook them on my backpack.

trying to be stealthy.

New Quilt

A sneak peak at the new quilt I'm working on. I am loving this one. (pats herself on the back) I found that I like to use very busy fabric for the stuff I sew. I wanted to make a quilt but not have it hurt anyone's eyes to look at it. So I decided to make a modified coin quilt with lots of white fabric so that I could still use all the fabrics I love, without it looking jumbled. Phew! Long sentence. 

close up :)

Oh, and guess what I found? Heather Ross fat quarter packs! Autumn  did a post on how she found Heather Ross packs at Jo ann's. I didn't really think the Jo ann's near me would have them, but lo and behold they did! 

Cabin blocks

I started making cabin blocks this week and I can't stop! I've always loved the look of them, but I thought they looked too complicated to make. Then I realized it's really quite simple! I really want my next quilt to be all cabin blocks. Making them helps me use up a lot of my scraps too. 

I tried to use kind of a color theme for this one...sort of

This is just a crazy one 

I made another zippy pouch and I incorporated an embroidery I did of a tape. I seem to be loving anything tape-themed thing these days....

close up of the embroidery, I have a second one I'm working on too. 

Things from my (not very far) travels

Some japanese fabric from shop in Lancaster. Love the bunny's. I can't wait to make another quilt.  :D A new notebook from Borders for doodles and the like. Also I got a bunch of yellow legal pads from Staples. I know that doesn't sound very exciting, but these are great for doodling and decoupage. 

Boxes and buttons

Showing off my collection of buttons and scrappy boxes. I really love the glass jar full of buttons.

I decorated this wooden box more recently. I really like how it turned out. ^_^

The top and back.

This one is a cardboard box I'm in the process of redoing. Right now I'm using it to hold all my stickers

Mini things

Some more embroidery. Exciting I know.

This one was inspired by a Switchfoot song. The letters are kind of messed up looking. 

Another very small doodle. Don't ya just love my very wordy post?

Needle and Cloth

I went to a huge fabric store with my mom on Friday and look what I got! I went straight for the amy butler prints.  Funny story from that trip. I  pick out all my fabrics (it took me awhile) and then I take my fabric over to be cut. The lady at the counter is telling how pretty the fabrics that I've chosen are. Then she gets to the blue fabric and says "You know this has fish on it, right?" I say "yeah, I saw that" she says "You saw the fish?"me "yup". I laughed about it on the way home. She really wanted me to know that there were fish on the fabric and that I was ok with that.

Tried a little embroidering.  Got the hoop for a dollar at a huge antique store that we went to afterwards. The first thing I did is of course a mushroom.

This one's very random, but I like it.

yes, I know he only has six legs....don't say it too loud, he's very sensitive.

I can't think of a good title for this post.....

I got some new notebooks for doodling at Borders and a nice pencil case. Doodling out some more ideas. I Love doodling, I almost filled up my other doodle book already.

I really needed a phone case (my phone slips out of everything) so I sewed this one up. Its quilted too so my phone should be extra protected.

A random assortment of things

This is my new favorite thing, a little mushroom I knitted. I call it Miki. :) Another odd thing about me is that I like to decorate envelopes, don't ask me why. Here's a bunch I recently did.

This is a really bad picture , but these are the capris pants I was writing about. I warned you that you would see this fabric a lot. 

hehe, you can see my toes. whoops.

B-day gifts

I doodled this for my friend Katie's B-day. I also made a little zippy pouch and a necklace, but I forgot to take a picture of the necklace. I made capris out of the same fabric for my little sister's B-day. I really like this fabric and it was only $2 a yard. You'll probably see a lot of it in the future!

The lining. 

A little sewing, a little knitting

Here are the pj short's I was writing about. I want to make a few more pairs, but I haven't gotten around to it. Plus, its been kind of chilly here, so wearing shorts isn't very appealing. These are the socks I'm knitting. I love this yarn! Its so fun to knit with and so soft.

Little doodle

Just a small doodle I did not too long ago.  Hmm...lets see, what else have I been working on. I finished my scrapbook from long ago. I've been knitting a lot lately. I started a sock and its almost done. I  also want to sew some summer pjs, so hopefully I'll have pictures of those and my knitting.

Holy Crap.

These were the words I uttered as I opened the huge package of scrapbook stuff that Katie from  Quietly going mad  sent me. Layers upon layers of scrap-booking paper, stickers, rub-ons, embellishments. Everything, you name it, its in there.  She was so very generous in sending me all this amazing scrap-booking stuff! I am so inspired to start something right now! Thanks again Katie! 

Yummy fabric

I haven't done anything really crafty lately, (except starting to make a basket) but I did want to share the pretty fabrics I got on Sat. It only came to $6.30 for these two yards of fabric. Which is pretty good! I'm going to sheep & wool on Sat. Which I am pretty excited about. Hoping to come home with an armful of gorgeous yarn! 

Stripey bag

I wanted to sew something small, so I made a bag for my little sister. Her only requests were that it should be medium size and have bright colors.

I think I made a spoon....

Using up scraps

These are little wristlets I made. (Not sure if thats the right word, but it seemed to fit) I wanted to use up some of the little scraps I had left over from my quit, so these were born! The one below is my favorite. I've worn it so much already that its starting to look a little tired.

Don't ask me what the letters stand for. They were from fabric tags and I thought they would look cool. 

Yes, another journal

I re-did this one last week for my little sister. I like the last one I did better. The only thing I like about the front of this one is it has Willoughby and Marianne on it.

If you don't know to what I am referring to, read "Sense & Sensibility"

Journal make-over

I mentioned to a friend of mine that I like to redo journals, so she brought me one to redo. It's just a regular mead notebook that I stripped and covered with paper. I also covered it with the sticky protective stuff. 

I must say that ring notebooks are easier to redo than notebooks with a sewn binding.

My quilt is done!!

Does this look familiar? Well, a while ago it I was going to quilt it and finish it off. When I laid it all out, I realized I had sewn the quilt completely crooked! I got so mad at myself for being a complete failure at sewing. So I shoved it in the back of the closet, never to be remembered again. I think my family knew it was a touchy subject. I'm sure they went around whispering to each other "don't mention that quilt Sarah started". I follow a lot of quilt blogs, so it wasn't easy to forget my pathetic excuse of a quilt lying at the back of the closet. I was suddenly driven to finish my quilt after reading a bunch of quilt blogs. So I worked on it like crazy, I had to cut a lot off to make it straight and it still isn't perfect. I am sort of sorry I used the fabrics that I did too. Some of them are really bright and don't really go with the rest of it. But I was poor at the time, so I just had to use what I had. It's finally done though, and I can say I made a quilt!!

The back of it.

Finally done....yay!

Scrappy things

I finally finished redoing this notebook, you might recognize it. Part of it is the header for my blog. I collect a lot of paper scraps. I get the paper from magazines, clothing tags, stuff I get in the mail. You can get a lot of cool looking paper that way. (and no, I'm not crazy)

I had some cardboard lying around, so I decided to cover it in scraps too. I even put this protective sticky stuff over it. I always feel like an idiot when I go to the office store, "do you have clear, sticky, protective stuff??" Anyway, I'm not quite sure what I should do with the board. Any suggestions? Maybe It will be a gift......

Sharpie love

I was really inspired last week to start a giant sharpie doodle. I'm still working on it, not sure if I want it to cover the whole board or just a part of it. 

My favorite part of this is probably the little mushroom guy from mario kart, he's in the upper left corner

Birthday presents

It was my Mom's birthday yesterday, so I made her a needle case for all of her bamboo double-points. She didn't have a case for them yet and they were all just wrapped together with a rubber band. Which is not helpful when you are looking for the size 3's. To all you non-knitters this probably sounds like meaningless babble. (sorry)  I know all the knitters are going "a complete set of bamboo double points!! Nice!"

I know. I'm jealous too.

I made her a little zippy pouch too, for all her odds and ends.

Mushroom madness

Okay, so remember how I said I was getting into drawing mushrooms? I wasn't kidding. I seem to be drawing them on everything! Which is funny, because as far as eating goes. I hate mushrooms. The smell, the texture of them. I do like to draw them though! I made this Birthday card for a relative and what is on it? A mushroom!

I've been incorporating them in my doodles a lot too. I made this one below for a friend who asked me to make a design with only mushrooms.

Okay, so this one doesn't have any mushrooms in it, but I thought it was nice

This is just mushroom craziness

I even have a speech bubble coming up and it says "I'm a fungi!!" Get it? Cheesy I know. You all are free to shiver or nonchalantly cough "cheesy" if you wish.

More doodles!

I'm quite proud of this one. (gives herself a pat on the back)

Yeah, I've been doodling more. I have discovered that I love mechanical pencils! They are so fun to draw with. I did the doodle at the top with a mechanical pencil. Sorry the picture is so faded looking. This polka dot journal is my new doodle book! Isn't it cute! It only cost me 3 bucks. Did I show you this one below already? I can't remember.

This one is probably the craziest

This one looks almost exactly the same as the ones in my previous post

Doodles

Here are some crazy doodles I drew yesterday. 

I've really gotten into little mushrooms

Anime eyes

Sorry again for being so infrequent with my postings. I've been sick, so all I've wanted to do for the past week is curl up on the couch and watch BBC movies. I can't make the second eye look good with the first, so I only draw one. Sorry if its creepy.

These three I didn't copy, I just drew them from a combination of styles I've seen

The ups and downs of sewing

So yesterday, I really wanted to sew something. I decided on a little top for my sister. I measured her, used one of her shirts as a guide. I sewed the body and the top part and measured it. The only thing is, I measured it before I ironed it. Very important. When she tried it on, it was skin tight! The agony!! I had to rip it all out:( Sitting there ripping out all my hard work. Luckily when I sewed it this time, it fit. (whew)

I added little strips of fabric on the side, so that it would fit her and she would have room to grow. I'll just let everyone else think its pretty detailing.

Scrapbook

I've been working on a scrapbook lately. I don't really have any good pictures of the layouts I did, so I thought I would just show what I did on the cover. Voila! 

wahoo.

Attempting anime drawing

These are some attempts at drawing anime. Before you all start to comment. I copied these from Mark Crilley. (hangs head) I always feel like I cheated if I copy something in drawing. I just feel so ashamed that I don't have the skill in drawing to just draw these out of the blue.

(sigh)

"and your angry eyes, just in case"

Cards galore

I've been in a card making craze recently. My desk is an absolute mess right now, almost  everything crafty is spread out on my desk in a chaotic mess! I got a bunch more crafty stuff from all my girlfriends. Thanks girls! All that new crafty stuff sent me into a card making frenzy! This card I made for somebody's birthday this week. I'm quite proud of this one. :)

I love the little smiling peppermint sticker! Hence the "you are sweet" 

Next project. Scrap-booking. 

Mini Cards

Little mini cards I've been making. This is my favorite. :D I've got quite a collection of handmade cards now. All I need is envelopes for them to go in.

I love how this one looks beat up. Its kinda like antiquing a card!

Is it weird that I put just "hello" on cards?

Sideways scarf

I finished this scarf not too long ago. I made it with the same yarn as my mittens. They match!

Now off to shovel.

Birthday goodies!

We celebrated my birthday last night. Just look at all the cool stuff I got! Thanks Everybody!

I now have books to read, music to listen to,a gift card to spend and craftiness to create with. :D I got quilt batting too, its just too big to take a picture of. 

Hello yummy yarn

Hello pretty crafty stuff

(sigh of contentment) 

Clouds

I don't know what it is with me, but I seem to always end up drawing or painting clouds.

I doodle them all the time. 

Just random musings.

Little books

I was moving around my many books today, (I'm running out of shelf room!) when I discovered a bunch of little books I made in the past. This one below is probably the most recent. I used it as a journal for a little while.

The back cover

This was a doodle book for a while, it came with me to England.

You all can "ooohhh" and "ahhhh" This book has touched British soil!

I think my favorite part of this, is the piece of paper from a Corrine Bailey Rae cd

 I made this book specifically for a diary for when I went to England.

The beginning of a quilt

I started this a few days ago. I have been wanting to make a real quilt for awhile and I was inspired by on of the blogs I follow. http://www.filminthefridge.com/ Here's her blog if you want to check it out. She makes really gorgeous quilts and I was inspired to make my own. I've made a quilt before. Sort of. Its just a front and a back, no squishy stuff inside, so it's not considered an authentic  quilt.  Poor thing, it wants to be a "real quilt".  I made the rectangles really big, which is nice, because it goes faster. I wanted to make this quilt really big. Big enough to cuddle up with while watching mushy movies and big enough so that I could potentially put it on my bed. My little bother gets brownie points for helping me take the pictures. Sorry the pictures are such bad quality, its the best I could do with my non-professional camera.

Here's my little brother showing me the stairs he and his sister made.

Along with their snow houses.

He made sure I got a picture of the "dragons teeth" they found.

I could kiss them, they're so cute.

Us with our boots on our frozen solid driveway

Ribbon holder

I've had this design for a ribbon holder in my head for a while, so I decided to finally make one out of wire. Its not the prettiest design, but it works and its nice to have the ribbon right there where I can reach it. And I get to show off all my cute ribbon. :) I know this is really interesting to all of you. 

I'm a moron

Really, I am. Trust me. I was all upset yesterday because when I was playing around with my blog the comments part of the page disappeared. I was getting all annoyed at the settings because I told it to show comments and allow them. So, I'm getting more and more irritated at it and wondering why the heck it isn't working. It dawned on me today as I was trying to fix it. The comments weren't wiped off the face of the earth, I had accidentally put the comments the same color as the background! So I couldn't see them!  I'm banging my head on the table, saying "moron! moron! moron!"  I guess that was to teach me that my own stupidity can be my downfall at times.

It snowed!

I finished my mittens just in time for it to snow! 

I got some cool pictures too.

I finished the mittens fairly quickly, which is nice because its cold!

These were fun to knit even though I ripped them out 5 times.

I'm thinking about knitting a hat to match.

Icyness on the branches.

Me wearing my mittens

More snow

It looks like there's little crystals on the branches.

More Cards

   Yes, sorry more cards. Fascinating I know. I made these in the past few days. I'm running out of good ideas and layouts. I need inspiration! (sigh) I'm working on my mittens a lot, trying to finish them , because its so darn cold!! It was snowing when I took these pictures.           

                              

                                   I'm really fond of putting just "hello" on cards. 

                                    As you can tell.

                             This one is so small I'll have to make an envelope for it.
            

Knitting Needle Case

      I made this knitting needle holder last night. My old one I sewed by hand, because our old  sewing machine hated everyone who used it. Plus I sewed the pockets for the needles too big, so my needles kept falling out all the time. The needles fit good in this one. :) 

                                           Brrr! Its cold out there! Look at the ice!

                                          
   
            "You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me"

                                     C.S. Lewis

Crafty supplies!

 Hey! Sorry I haven't posted in awhile. The blogging site was being annoying. I got a bunch of cheap scrapbooking stuff on Saturday. I loaded the pictures in the wrong order, so the pictures of the stuff I got are at the bottom.  These are two card I made today with some of the stuff I got on Saturday.  

                                I got a bunch of ribbon, stickers and some alphabet stamps
       The red, striped and polka dot ribbon were all supposed to be christmas ribbon. So they were really cheap. They don't look like christmas ribbon to me! The brown and cupcake ribbon were 50 cents each. I used the cupcake ribbon on the pink card above.

                     I love these stickers! The little japanese looking gumdrop is my favorite. :)
           These are letter stamps. (as you can see) I was really happy to find these were only a 

            buck for the pack. Usually alphabet stamps sets are around $10. 

I love getting cheap stuff! 

Crazy day

Today was a little hectic. My Dad had surgery today, so, the kids and I were alone most of the day.  It was also crazy trying to get my school done and helping the kids with theirs and not shooting myself in the process. I got done school at a fairly decent hour, so I had a little time to sew this pouch/bag and do some other crafty stuff. "I got I full 40 minutes and I had time to build that rocking horse." I am actually glad I don't have a professional camera right now, because if I did, you guys would be able to see my crappy buttonholes. I stink at buttonholes. I've read a mullion tutorials about how to sew a buttonhole by hand and with a machine, but I still can't get the hang of it. My buttonholes look like some animal ate a hole in the the fabric and I'm trying to deceive myself that its a hole for a button. I love buttons! I have quite a collection now ,thanks to my family and Emily Witter. I see buttons in the store and go "that's pretty, I'll get some", but only when I get home do I remember that I have to make a hole in fabric for that button.  And make that hole look nice. 

You try to sew one and then you'll understand where I'm coming from.

Anyway, enough of my ranting.

Here are pictures of the bag /pouch thing I made. I thinking about using my fabric scraps to make a bunch of them for future gifts. 

I made this one a few months ago, I love this fabric from Ikea :)

I've used it so much, that I have almost none left in my stash. (sniff)

Card pictures

Yay! I got the pictures to go where I wanted them to go! Anyway, started school again today. (sigh) Life goes on as usual. These are the cards I was writing about. I took these pictures on Saturday. It was really cold! As you can tell by the icyness in the photos. The sunset was pretty though. I really wish stamps weren't so expensive, then I could actually mail these to people. I love sending cards and letters to people, it just seems more personal. I need to go get some envelopes to put these in or make my own for these cards. I hope you peoples like these, because your probably going to get one of them at some point in time!

 Can you tell I like polka dots?

This is one is one of my favorites

My second post!

Sad, I know. That I am posting again so soon after my first, but I couldn't help it! I have a bunch of artsy stuff I want to show. :-) I really love to work with watercolor. I like experimenting with different colors and techniques. I just love how the brushstrokes look on paper. I've come up with some pretty weird looking stuff, but some cool looking stuff too. "My friends do say I certainly know how to make a sandwich".   :) I still don't know how to make the pictures go where I want them to. I promise to have more soon.

Well, this is all new to me, but here I go. 

I wanted to start this blog to share all the crafty stuff that I like to do in my spare time. I love almost every and any craft you can think of. :) I love to knit, sew, stamp, make cards, draw, paint, scrapbook and sometimes bead.  I have been doing a lot of crafting during holiday break. My family and friends were very generous with giving me crafting supplies. I've had great fun, using all my new stuff! :) I haven't been sewing a lot recently, but I did make this bunny a little while before Christmas. He is a little beat up, but much loved. He is named "patchy bunny". How unique I know.