Jen's Pick at The CSI Project

WOW! 

My Halloween Wreath was Jen's Pick over at The CSI Project for the Fall Challenge! 

Thank you Jen! - visit her at

I love this little wreath ~

Happy Weekend!!!

Some more fall decor

I have been working hard to get our home ready for fall.

Some sweet little boys have been helping me too!

Lil J & Big J painting their Frankenstein bobble heads.  I need to add their pictures for the faces.

I found them at Hobby Lobby. 

That's right! 

The Hobby Lobby opened (FINALLY) last week and I love it! 

I have no idea why it has taken so long to get here but it is finally here!

They are working so hard.  My little crafty guys.

I got these supplies and went to work.

 

 

I found these chipboard letters at Hobby Lobby and modpodged some cute scrapbook paper to the front. and hung them from the mantle.

I also found this wood Halloween sign and painted it orange and added black polka dots.

And then there is my latest wreath.

I am really into wreaths this year. 
Especially yarn wreaths!

This one reminds me of a fall sweater (not that I have many).

Speaking of yarn, I am going to NYC with my mom in October and The Purl Bee is participating in something called the New York City Yarn Crawl.

This will be going on the weekend my mom and I are visiting! 

How exciting, my mom is just thrilled!

HAHA.

Halloween Table Runner

 

I decided on making these blocks into a table runner.

Thanks to all who commented with their suggestions, I really appreciate it!

Finished the binding this afternoon in the car-line while waiting to pick up Big J.

Its pretty big, 13 x 68 inches.  But it fits our dining room table just right.

Here are some closeups of the blocks...

This is a close up of the quilting on this runner.

I decided to use my walking foot to do a straight stitch. I avoided stitiching over the blocks and zig-zagged around them instead to create squares on the back.

I must admit this was not my favorite part of this project and I have a new respect for those who quilt entire quilts with straight lines. 

The binding is the same Moda Natural fabric that I used for the blocks.

Thought the runner was busy enough that a plain binding would frame it nicely.

We LOVE Halloween around here!

 

Halloween Blocks - Now What??

Halloween is on my mind.

I originally created these applique blocks (8x8 squares) with a table runner in mind.

But then I saw these mug rugs.

Have you seen these?

I first saw this adorable one at PoppyPrint.

And now I don't know what to do with these blocks.

Should I stay with the table runner?

Combine some blocks to make a couple mug rugs?

Make oversized coasters?

I would love to hear what you think!

These are the blocks

(excuse the pictures, I could not get to my good camera).

Witch Feet

A Scaredy Cat

A Spooky Bat

A Witch Hat

A Bubbling Cauldron

A Ghost

Pumpkins

A Spider

So please, please leave me a comment with your opinion about where to go from here.

Thank you!

Coffee Cozies for your Team!

I must admit I do not drink coffee, I can't get past the smell.

 But I do like hot chocolate.

And Starbucks brought back the salted caramel hot chocolate this season!!! 

Thank you Starbucks, it was getting a bit ridiculous that I was carrying sea salt with me to make my own salted caramel hot chocolate. 

Anyways...

I found this a coffee cozy pattern in the

Better Homes and Garden Quilts and More magazine (Fall 2010)

and made this little cutie!

And I thought they would be REALLY cute with some team spirit on them.

My personal favorite (and my alma mater - Go Knights!)

Lovin' the wood buttons I found at Joann's.

And for ALL of the Gators in my life (and there are many)

And for the Noles out there

So we are only one week into football season.  With many more to go.

I wonder if some are starting to feel fall weather coming in?

We here in Florida are not.

We will not until October or November.

I am jealous of those of you who are having crisp mornings and cool evenings.

I hope you are enjoying it!!

I am linking this little project up here...

Superior Threads - I'm over here!

I was contacted by Nedra at the Superior Threads team  about my Bliss Beach Bag. 

I used their product called Texture Magic and she asked if they could feature my bag on The Mother Superior Blog.

So come visit me over here today!
Thanks Nedra & Superior Threads!!

Embroidered Selvage Notebook

 




An embroidered, selvage, mod podged composition book.

(That's a long name so I am just calling it My Notebook)

It's made up of things I am loving right now, embroidery and selvages.

I made the embroidery using a white fat quarter with a design in the fabric and lots of these little guys in that jar.

Find the printable for the thread bobbins here at Wild Olive.

See the pattern in the fabric.

This was not the fabric that I used for this project

(that is lost somewhere in my scary scrap basket- see below)

And the embroidery floss are just so much cuter with that printable.

So here is what I started with.

I do not have pictures of how I attached the selvages to the embroidery but I just cut the embroidery fabric to a square that would fit nicely on the composition book.

I sewed it onto the scrap linen napkin.

Then I added a brown/white polka dot border.

Then I started sewing on the selvages.

I found Mod Podge for Fabric at Joanns the other day and picked it up. 

It worked nicely for this project.

I made sure to have enough fabric to overlap on the back side of the cover of the notebook and mod podged them down.

(then I covered this with brown cardstock - see below)

This is the back, I used this tutorial from Char @ Crap I've Made

to complete the back.

I used the Mod Podge Fabric to seal the fabric to the notebook.

Overlapped the edges to the inside cover, again sealed with Mod Podge Fabric.

The added some brown cardstock to cover the back.

Finished back of notebook.

And here it is all done!