Bunnies!

I made these bunnies for Ernest in Christmas 2006. I don't have the pattern so I can't share that with you. I check just recently at Jo-Ann's in the pattern books, and couldn't find it so they must be discontinued.

Ernest loves bunnies, the color blue and things that are soft. These bunnies covered all 3 items! I love how the bunny friends arms are long and skinny (they are not stuffed) so that they can wrap their arms around each other. The second fat bunny is filled with micro beads. Filling him was a horror. Those little micro beads clung to EVERYTHING. I finally filled Mr. Bunny and it was worth it, he is so squishy and soft.

Here is my scissors (covered in micro beads!)

Recovering the Chairs

I don't think this counts as crafting or sewing,

but since I used fabric, I'm including it!

We have really nice bar stools for our kitchen, but after a while (with two boys and a little girl) the covers looked horrible. I bought some fabric from Jo-ann's, whipped out my staple gun and Viola! Well, not exactly... I had to pull out about 100 staples first, which was NOT fun. I think the chairs turned out great and I made sure to spray them with scotch guard before we used them!

Closeup of the fabric

Hooray for Headbands

I found Heather Bailey's awesome site with this cool free pattern and had to make it. It's my headband, but Hannah is much cuter so she modeled it for me :)

My cute model with headband

Tissue Holders

Here is my latest project - Cute little tissue holders!

Here is the online tutorial that I copied followed. The basic pattern size for "Puffs to Go" tissues is 6 1/2 x 9. For the travel sized Kleenex it is 6 1/2 x 7. I could only find "Puffs to Go" at Target, so I think I'll be sticking to the Kleenex sized holders. I still have to make the cute little zipper bags that these go in, but I haven't gotten that far yet!

Crayon Rolls

Here are the CUTE crayon rolls that I've finally finished!! I just think they are the coolest thing around. They are easy to make too. They fit a 16 pack of crayons (which I bought for .25 cents each at Wal-mart). Here's the online tutorial that I followed to make these. It took me about an hour to make each one of them. Not too bad until I decided to make 39 of them...

Pink and purple for the girls.

Big boys got dinosaurs!

Animals for the little boys.

Thomas the Tank Engine for my nephew.

The crayon rolls even hold an 8 pack of "Big" Crayons placed in every other pocket (for the smaller artists).

Cool Tools

These are the coolest bobbin holders, called the "BobbinSaver". I couldn't find any stores locally who had these, so I bought mine on ebay.

Rag Quilt

I've always wanted to make a Rag Quilt. I had no idea how much time (and thread) went into making one. Squares measure 4" and the finished quilt is 48" by 56".

I love all the bright colors!

I used McCall's Crafts 3901 as my pattern. Rag Quilts are easy to make, and you don't need a pattern for one, but I felt a little more comfortable since this was my first time making one.