Life Happens

OK, so traveling two weeks in a row, starting a new job, having a house guest living in one’s sewing room, beginning a new workout routine, and scrambling to find a day care for one’s offspring? NOT conducive to daily sewing. I so totally screwed up my daily sewing routine that I’m starting the countdown over one more time. After this if I screw up I screw up and that’s just too bad.

I still need to take some pictures of a few mini-projects I hand stitched. I embellished a t-shirt and a headband with fabric yo-yo flowers and made the front half of a little owl Christmas ornament. I also have started working on a quilt. Fabric.com messed up my Christmas fabric order so I’m waiting for the correct print to arrive before I begin working on my holiday quilt. But I’ve got plenty of projects keeping me busy in the meantime.

Sorry for my absence and all that. I’ll be better, promise. ;)

TTFN

I apologize in advance; this post has no pictures.

I’ve done a few itty, bitty hand stitching projects lately while I postponed trouble-shooting Viggo. Once I gathered the will to tackle his “illness” it was fairly simple. When all else fails, clean out the lint, oil the shuttle, and replace the needle {even if you just did it a week ago}.

All the crayon rolls are now done, and wrapped. We’ll mail them off this weekend {along with the beanbags and a non-sewn gift} while we’re in the states. And once we get back I’ll give you some pics of the hand stitching I’ve been doing. I’ll be doing more this weekend as I am *not* taking Viggo on a road trip with me.

Also…I forgot to sew one day {again}. But this time I’m not starting over. It really was an honest-to-goodness mistake. If I had remembered I would have sewn. Seriously…if I’m in bed, falling asleep, and I remember I need to sew I *will* get up again. But if I don’t remember until the following morning there’s not much to be done, is there?

Have a good weekend! Wish I could say mine would be relaxing…but it should be exciting!

Crayon Rolls

     
I’m getting closer and closer to finishing all the Christmas presents for the nieces and nephews we have in the gift exchange this year. I managed to get three crayon rolls done {one is for MiniDork} before Viggo started misbehaving again. I’m hoping it’s just a bent needle or something. I need to make one more crayon roll {in the heart pattern} and a few other projects before our trip to Utah this month {so I can take advantage of those flat-rate shipping boxes the USPS has while we’re there…hey, Canada Post, you could learn a thing or two from the USPS}!
Anywho…more pictures!

I used the tutorial from Chocolate On My Cranium. Good tute. You should try it, you know, if you have a need for crayon rolls. I think they’d make great stocking stuffers, and that’s exactly what I plan to do with MiniDork’s.
The heart fabric is from Ikea. The pink sparkle fabric was given to me. And the Canadian animal print and green fabric came from Fabricland. I completely adore the animal print. It has bison, moose, beavers, polar bears, porcupines, etc. as well as mountains and trees. It’s really adorable. And all the ribbons were from my Michael’s.

And, just because I think they’re super cute, here’s another picture:

Improvising

Sometimes when you sew without a plan things turn out just fine:

And sometimes they don’t:

 

That top project was a cover for my camera strap. Very simple, all straight lines. The bottom project was a monkey. I made it knowing it probably wouldn’t turn out {but would make good practice} and should it turn out it would be a gift for a monkey-themed birthday party I went to today. Well, it didn’t turn out {which is why I had a back-up gift}. But Lucy still thinks he’s pretty fun.

Viggo was sick this week. But, with a little hair-pulling, cussing, and perseverance I managed to heal him. Hooray!

And now I’m off to enjoy my long weekend {Monday is a civic holiday, yay Canada}!