I think I was feeling like I needed a little warmth and sunshine. The flowers are fabric yo-yo’s.
The sentiment reads:
It’s the little things that make life Big.
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I picked up this sweater at a garage sale over the summer for $1.
I didn’t like the way it fit but did like the pattern. Last year I saw a tutorial on making hats from sweaters…wish I could credit them but I can’t remember where I saw it.
I ended up with two hats. I like the square one with the little tassels the best. The braided tassels I made from some black yarn I had laying around.
I still have a bunch of sweater left…I’ll have to do some experiments. Maybe ornaments for the tree? Who knows but I’ll post anything that is successful.
Every morning I’ve been waking up to find this at my front door.
Today I made a draft stop to hopefully help…my only worry is that it will be froze to the door in the morning.
The curtains in my son’s room and the ones on the patio door have both been froze to the 3M window kits we put on them. I can’t even imagine how cold it would be if they weren’t on!
I filled the fabric tube with old towel scraps and used baggies filled with rice and beans. Last time I made one of these we had a cat so I had kitty litter laying around.
With the cold weather settling in, I really was under pressure to get this one done.
She loves it and told me that it’s so snuggly warm.
I have to preface this with the fact that I DID NOT piece this quilt top myself.
My mom picked it up years ago at an estate sale or maybe and auction. Since my folks are trying to pare down their possessions, mom gifted me with this quilt top.
My daughter loved it!
In keeping with our family’s continued effort to renew, reuse and recycle; I am using a twin flat sheet for the backing of the quilt and an old fleece/wool type blanket for the batting. Since the batting is quite thick I’m just tying the quilt instead of hand or machine quilting. I will be sewing the backing up over the front as the binding though.
My little girl told me that she wasn’t going to wear this hand-me-down jacket because it didn’t have any pink on it.
“It’s too boy-ish mom!”
Well I fixed that with some whimsical flowers on the back.
I finished sewing the quilt yesterday morning. I would have been done on Tuesday night first I put the bobbin in wrong then broke a needle and then put the new needle in backwards so it kept breaking the thread. It was very frustrating. I knew then that it was just time to be done for the day.
After the sewing, I had to clip each seam allowance every half inch then wash it so it would fray after washing. The nylon stocking that serves as my filter on my washing machine outlet had a large fist size ball of frayed denim and flannel in it. Then the dryer lint trap was even more full of fluff. I would have taken it to a laundry mat but we don’t have any around here anymore. It’s a 20 min drive to the closest one.
There are several things I love about this quilt:
- All the flannel is from my maternity tops and my boy’s flannels from when he was very small.
- The denim is from both mine and my hubby’s old jeans. Together we’ve lost about 50lbs!!
- The “batting” I used was scraps of polar fleece that I got for free from someones “project gone wrong”
- This blanket is fairly heavy! This provides good sensory comfort for my boy. He needs/loves heavy blankets to help him sleep through the night.