Teddy Bear

Teddy Bear...Mouse?

Here is an attempt to make a teddy bear. I made the clothes for my bear out of scraps. The nose was a little too long, making it look like a mouse. I used fabric paint on the face, hands and feet. You can hand stitch the face, hands and fee, if you would like. I would highly recommend hand stitching, instead of fabric paint. Because it smears and you cannot fix mistakes.

Sampler

I am still working on my sampler project. Here is a picture of what I have finished. This project was from the Laura Ingalls sewing book.

Bread Cloth

I finished hand stitching my bread cloth. Sorry, the picture is not clear. I got the project from the Laura Ingalls Sewing book.

Angel

Angel in purple felt

Homemade Pumpkin

homemade felt pumpkin

view of the stem

The other day, I went to Thimbles and Threads/Buttermilk Junction to look around. While I was there, I spotted a felt pumpkin in an old china cabinet. I ask the lady at the counter how much it cost and she said it wasn't for sale. I ask her how to make the felt pumpkin. You need a regular size (orange) fabric scrap, a toilet paper roll, and a small piece of brown felt. Put the toilet paper roll in the center of your orange fabric, and wrap the fabric around roll, placing fabric in the hole at the top. Cut a long rectangular strip of fabric out of the brown felt, the roll it up like a cinnamon roll. Place stem in the center of pumpkin.

Cross Stitch Bird Pillow Cases

cross stitch pillow case

I am learning how to do cross stitch and this is a picture of the pillow case that I am working on.

This is very time consuming and I find time to sit down in the evening and work on it.

Embroidery Thread

beautiful teacup holding embroidery thread

Hannah has been busy working on three hand stitching projects. She is working on a set of pillow cases, a sampler, and a bread cloth. She found that the teacup held her thread nicely and she could get to the different colors easily.

Fire Trucks and Boys

Big Red Fire Truck

Listening and asking questions....

Trying on a firefighters jacket...

Getting ready to go for a ride in the fire truck!

On Sunday, Kyle and Bob brought the fire truck out to our church and the Humphrey boys were able to tour the truck, take a ride in it, put on firefighter gear and ask questions.

We all learned about fire trucks and what fire fighters do every day. We also learned about the different tools that are on a fire truck and the boys got to spray water out of one of the hoses on the truck. Then they got to go for a ride in the truck!

Owl Tote Bag

Colorful Owl Tote Bag

I was looking through an American Girl magazine and came accross this tote bag project. I purchased a lime green tote bag, black fabric paint, and fabric glue. I have a large amount of felt scrap pieces, so I used them to make the owl. I used light blue, yellow, light pink and light purple felt. I used different colors of glitter fabric paint on the tips of the owl's feathers.

Tea Pot

My father and I purchased this tea pot at the Flower Gallerie. I liked this multi colored tea pot because it has sunflowers and a bee on it. The lid has a bee sitting on a sunflower. The tea pot saucer is a yellow sunflower.

Slippers

Warm, comfy slippers

Here is a pair of slippers that I made using a pattern out of the Sew Pretty Christmas Homestyle book by Tilda. I made yo-yo's to decorate them!

Winter Hat

pink felt hat with pink rick-rack along the edge

Hannah's Winter Hat

I purchased pink, blue, and yellow felt at Walmart. I made this hat to match my pink gloves and scarf that I made last week. I got the pattern out of the Sew Pretty Christmas Homestyle book.

Ma's Needlebook

inside of book
outside of book

Lydia let me borrow two books. My Little House Sewing Book by Margaret Irwin has a collection of 8 projects from Laura Ingalls Wilder's Classic Stories. Using sewing and ribbon scraps, I made this needlebook.

My Little House Crafts Book by Carolyn Strom Collins & Christina Wyss Eriksson. This book has 18 projects from Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House Stories.

My mother looked for the books on Ebay, but they wanted alot of money for them. Amazon.com has these books for less and you can get them in used or new condition.

Mittens

Mittens

On Saturday, while everyone was watching football, I decided to make some mittens for winter.

I found the pattern in Sew Pretty Christmas Homestyle by Tilda. The pattern and instructions are located in the book. I bought my book at Jo-Ann's Fabric. These are made out of soft pink felt. You can embellish them with buttons, fabric, yo-yos, embroidery designs, etc.

Prairie Bonnet/White Apron

long, white apron

Prairie Bonnet

Back View

I enjoy reading the Little House on the Prairie series and I found a pattern for a bonnet. The pattern I used was Simplicity #3723, item A. I made a long, white apron out of this pattern

(item b) and I will wear it with a ladies pilgrim style dress.

Happy Sewing!

Home School Graduation Celebration

David, Adam and Cecilia singing a praise song
Adam's dog Tucker (a corgi)

pink rose buds on a white background

Regency dress that I wore to the party.

Fall Wreath

Fall Wreath

Using supplies from the Dollar Tree, I made this fall wreath for my mother. There is a wonderful assortment of fall decorations at the Dollar Tree. I used 5-6 fall vines, a medium sized wreath, and a ribbon bow.

Fall Table Runner

While at the Dollar Tree, I purchased wire-edged ribbon in different fall patterns. I found the table runner craft at there website on-line. The basket weave design is easy, and I used an old table runner as my width and height.

Table Decorations

Fall Themed Tea-For-One
Oops, same picture!

Table Decoration

I went shopping the other day for fabric and came across the pumpkin teapot in a little shop. I decided to change our dining table setting. Now I am looking for a fall colored table cloth and runner.

Clothes Line

clothes on clothes line
clothes on clothes line

Our summer weather has been warm and beautiful. My father and I made a temporary clothes line in our back yard. We tied a small nylon rope to our air conditioner stand and pole to our portable car port. We can take the line down after each use. We live in a trailer park that does not allow permanent clothes lines.

Angel

I want to go back to the coast!
Angel posing with sunglasses

Angel tired of having her pictures taken.

Angel in her cool rays.

Coast Trip

Grandma Pat and Me
I am happy to be at the coast!

Beautiful view from our room

Shells we found on the beach.

more shells

Last weekend our family went to the coast. In the morning the fog came in but lifted later in the day. The weather was beautiful in the afternoon. We were able to take a few walks on the beach and we found a few treasures.

The ocean was so peaceful and beautiful. We opened our curtains and just sat quietly and watched the waves as they rolled in and out. Our time was spent talking with my grandma Pat, shopping a little, swimming and walking on the beach. There was no need for the TV in our room. The conversation was all that we needed.

Vintage Dress/Skirt

Bow in back of skirt

front of skirt

hair bow to match skirt

This skirt was intended to be a retro dress. Unfortunately, I did not fit the top portion of it, so we took off the top and made it into a skirt. At least the skirt portion fit. All the hard work would have been for nothing. With some of the fabric I made this bow. I like to make bows to mach my outfits.