I Did It!!!

Yay!!! I finally finished my mystery project. Did anyone figure what I was making? The yum yum fabric I made into 2 placemats. If I want more, I will have to get more fabric. But for now this is a table for two, since there are just the two of us these days. And the witches hat fabric I made into a table runner. My husband thinks it turned out cute. I hope you think so too. Kind of strange with two different fabrics on the table, but then this is for Halloween. Who says things have to match for Halloween? Halloween is a time for weird and interesting things anyway, right?

I decided to post a couple of different views of the table. You can see some of the hats look like candy corn and the yum yum fabric has candy corn. That is why I used the two fabrics. Then the trim on the placemats has candy corn and I have that candy dish filled with candy corn.
I could add more to the table for a Halloween centerpiece. But I am plumb out of Halloween decor items. Maybe next year I will add to this tablescape, like dishes and an interesting centerpiece. But not this year. This is as far as I will go. We are taking a trip in a couple of weeks and we need to save for that trip. We are finding out Disneyland and Medieval Times are getting expensive. Plus the travel costs too. I hope you like my mystery project and found it fun to have me making you wonder what was going on. Happy Halloween!!

Another Teaser-I Am Getting There

Now that it is after midnight, I have to say I worked on this project on Sunday instead of saying today, even though it still feels like I should say today, because I have not gone to bed yet so it feels like it is still today and not tomorrow, so I need to say I did this project yesterday. But I can't because I haven't gone to bed yet.

Don't know if that makes any sense.

But here goes with the teaser again. Everyone is probably going to hate me by now. But I promise I will reveal soon what this is. I hope it is up to everyone's expectations. Or maybe you don't have any expections. That would probably be better.

I lucked out, I bought just barely enough of this ribbon to complete the trim on the yum yum fabric. You will probably be able to see that I added machine quilting to this project. Not perfect. Did not want to do lots of ripping out, but it does help to achieve the effect I wanted.

Now for the witches hat fabric. Started on the sewing in the picture above. I had to change thread colors frequently with this whole project. Hmmm...

Now you can see I have done some sewing and adding the trim. This piece does not have any batting so therefore I am not doing any machine quilting on this project. Again I just barely had enough ribbon to complete this project. I am almost done. I promise I really am! I just had to tease everyone one more time. Keep checking back to see if you are correct in guessing what I made. Heehee. Have a good week.

Another Teaser

I did a couple of things sewing related this evening. First I was ironing and found all the little bean bags I had washed and ironed them. Next step is to iron on the letter "B" since this is my second batch of bean bags for work.

After that I went to work on my mystery project and realized I had made a boo boo again. Darn! The orange fabric was cut too small for my project. I guess that is what happens when you are not following a pattern. Fortunately I had enough of the yum yum fabric to continue with my project. Here you can see the wrong side and that I am including some batting. Have you guessed yet what I am making? And that my friends is where I will leave you for now. Heehee. I feel good for having gotten more done on it before I got too tired, which is what I am right now. It is late and I need to get to sleep. Gotta work tomorrow and we are going out of town to visit friends. We will be staying over and going to a Pumpkin Festival with our friends. And yes I will take my camera. Ta ta for now.

My Saturday

Earlier this year I bought this fabric when I was looking for fabric for a dress to attend a wedding in May. There was not enough of this one for a dress left on the bolt. So I bought what was left to decide later what I wanted to make with it. I have since decided to make a light weight jacket with it. The pattern is sort of a swishy type style. Yesterday I took a scrap with me to find fabric for a top and skirt to go with it. I found a Buttersuede in a dark blue that should work. This fabric looks very nice next to it. However, it goes on sale today. So I will go to the fabric store after church today to get that fabric.

Here is another teaser on my Halloween project. Obviously I am not getting this done as quickly as I hoped. But it is getting there. Here I am measuring where I want to cut it. Kind of hard to take a picture with one hand while doing something with the other. Husband was not home to help me out here. See my home blog for the info on that part of my Saturday.
Here I make the first cut.
Then my second cut. I did a couple more after that one to get it to the size I want it to be.
Then I do the same with the orange fabric.
And again with the witches hat fabric.
Here is my pile of cut fabric along with the baby hat I cut out that goes with that baby boy outfit I am still working on as a gift. That baby was born the week of Sept. 21st I think. This outfit will not fit him until next spring probably.

That is what I accomplised today. I feel like I move much slower these days and don't get as much done in a day as I used too. Oh well. I was wiped out from working 8 hours on Friday which I don't normally do. Even though it would mean more money to work 8 hours a day, it just wipes me out to do that.

Maybe after we get home from church I will have energy to tackle more sewing. I need to, I got things to finish.

Pink Saturday #5

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Sewing/Crafting Projects

I had mentioned earlier about getting Poly-pellets to use in place of the beans in the bean bags from work. I wanted an easier way to keep the bean bags clean when we needed to disinfect/wash them. First thing I did was to just cut open the ends and dump out the beans. It was easier to just cut them rather than rip out the stitching. Then I washed the bags in a load of whites which I do in warm water with bleach added. Then I had to press them.

I had wanted to add iron-on numbers, but we could not find any numbers. But we did find letters. That will work. I will do a group of A's, a group of B"s and so on. This will help us to track which bags have been washed or need to be washed.
So here they are with the A's added on. I had to get 3 packages to have enough of each letter for this project. Then it was time to restuff with the poly-pellets and hand sew them closed. Today I did the maching sewing part to secure the handstitching. Don't want those bags busting open as we do the toss games with them. I realized one thing while machine stitching the ends. I need to make the bags less full. Sometimes it was a tight squeeze trying to stitch the ends. I used the zipper foot, but even that was hard at times.
Here are 10 "A" bags ready to go back to work and I will bring home another 10 for a batch of "B" bags. Now, just so you know I have not forgotten the surprise Halloween project. First I had to wash and dry the fabric to preshrink it. I did not want the chance of the fabric shrinking after I sew the project. It might cause the ribbon to pucker!
Ironing the Yum Yum fabric!
Ironing the orange fabric.
And finally ironing the witch hat fabric. That is where I will leave you for now and keep you still wondering what in the world I am doing with this Halloween fabric. Heehee.

Pink Saturday #4

Obviously I have not posted here since last Saturday's Pink Saturday. But you can go to my home blog for this week's Pink Saturday post. Thanks.

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