Little Girl Caplet

I made this for my chiropractor's daughter, Evelyn...I just fell in love with this little caplet pattern, and it is sew easy to make, and everyone just dotes over it. Sharon asked me to go to a show with her in September, and I am going to make sesveral of these and my snugglies to take with me. Since this cost me about 2 bucks to make, I think this will be a pretty popular item, becuase I can sell it reasonably priced....it is also relatively quick to make, so I won't have to price it too high for my time. It takes about 3/4 yard of fabric, so I can buy remnants...and there are ALWAYS fleece remnants...and fleece is ALWAYS on sale for 40-50% off, so remnants are about $2.50 a yard! The teddy bear embroidery design is a free retired design from bunnycup.com.

Brown Eggs for Sale

As many of you know, Paul and I are raising Chickens, and we frequently have more eggs than we can possibly eat by our selves (we get between 10 - 20 eggs a DAY). So, we sell our eggs. Now, I made this sign to hang out on the picket fence in front of my quilting shop. When I'm in my shop and I have eggs to sell, I'll hang this sign out. We'll see how that goes.

The eggs are really really good, and we sell them for 1.50 a dozen. That's about the going price down here. But we saw a show about eggs on the history channel recently where they showed a guy in California who pretty much raises his chickens just like we do - free range and high quality feed. He sells his eggs for eight dollars a dozen! Down here, people would tell us to keep our eggs for that price!

Recycling pet food bags

I found this dog food bag in a ditch when out on a bike ride recently, and since I had just read about this cool way of recycling feed bags, I made this little shopping bag out of it. The feed bag has to be made of that woven plastic stuff. Then you just cut it apart and make a tote out of it. This one is small, because some of the bag was unsalvageable. But you can make them pretty big.

Sew, from now on, I will be buying our chicken feed, cat food, and grain for the goats in these types of bags so I can recycle them....LOL. And, if any of you are buying animal food in these type bags, please save them for me!

Easter Outfits

Had my granddaughters pictures done the other day and they wore overalls that I made them. Roxanna's are a little big...and I made her the newborn size! Never trust the pattern sizes!

baby quilt

Okay so a friend of mine from Verizon Wireless is getting ready to have a baby. She is having a boy and told me a lot of what she had picked out was sage green, baby blue and brown but she didnt have any specific theme for her baby. Jenn is a very earthy person so while looking for fabrics to make her a quilt I decided up on using batiks because not only are they a soft fabric but they also make me think of earth. I used bold blue, green and brown tones and to tie in the baby blue flannel on the back I used a baby blue batik border. Because I dont have an awesome quilt machine like sharons I quilted my own stitch in a ditch which I think turned out really good. whatcha all think?

I saved 65 bucks!

I bought Pete an Barnes and Noble "nook" for his retirement. It is an ebook. I looked at the cases for them and a simple canvas case was 65 dollars. NO WAY was I spending that much for something I could make on my own. It turned out pretty cool and Pete loves it.

My current project

Trisha and I found this chair on someones tree lawn in her neighborhood this week. I passed it up then went back to look at it. The lady was in her lawn, she told us the only thing wrong with it was the ink stain. She forgot to mention the horrific cat piss stink...and we didn't notice till we came back to get it and put it in the car. It took days and secret cat pee stink extinguish recipes and house fumigation and airation before I could start covering the cushion. I still have some work to do, obviously, but does everyone like the quilt square seat cushion and colorful fabric? I will post a completed prioject picture in a few days.