A tale of two floors! day 1

Have you ever had your entire house re-floored?  It is not that fun.  How do I know?  We just had that exact thing happen to our home.

 
You must first clear out all the stuff you need to live your life.  Yes...everything!  This was my sewing room.  You must start this phase days in advance.

You move things from one room to the next, then you must clean that room out.  Shuffle, shuffle!

When you only have one living space, it is the last room to be cleaned out.  Now you can see why we have new furniture on order!

Boxes everywhere.  It really did feel like we were moving....again!  Proof we needed new floors.

No hanging clothes in the closet.  Aren't I lucky to have such a big closet?  I actually have 3 dressers in my closet.

Don't ever get carpeting in the dinning room!  This carpet came with the house.  I am so glad to have consistent floors throughout.

Old carpet out, new carpet in!  This is the only room with carpet now.

Well, the master closet has carpet too.

New flooring is carried in 2 boxes at a time....all 56 of them!  It must acclimate for 24 hours.

While having no sewing machine set up, and no where to go...I tried to teach myself to hand quilt.  Now I know why I don't hand quilt, I stink at it!  I've decided that I will finish this guy on my machine.

Bedroom and closet carpet in!  It only took 3 1/2 hrs from start to finish!  That included the removal of the old carpet (in the bedroom/closet only), placing the new carpet and carrying in all those boxes of the new flooring.

Stay tuned for day 2-4 of the "Tale of two floors!"

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Happy Valentine's Day...

...and happy anniversary to me!  36 years to the same wonderful man!  It is so fantastic being married to your best friend.  I highly recommend it!

My special friend Deborah (Simply Miss Luella) and I are going to lunch today, and I just couldn't show up empty handed!  I was looking at some of my favorite blogs and ran across this great mug rug that Amy at Amy Made That made.  I thought that I could make that in no time flat, so I started out.

These squares are 1 1/2 x 1 1/2.  I free handed a heart pattern.

I started sewing them together until I had a block big enough to accommodate the heart I made.

I grabbed a piece of batting and quilted a grid on the whole piece.

I traced the heart on the block....

....and cut it out.  I then laid the quilted heart face down on the lining fabric.  I'm not sure why I didn't take any pictures of that.  I sewed around the whole thing with a 1/4 in. seam, leaving an opening for turning.  I clipped notches around the curves and trimmed the point then turned it right side out.  I then pressed it realy well and top stitched very close to the edge.  This closed up the turning opening.

Night time photos, so the colors are off in some of these pictures.

I wonder who ate half of that piece of candy?  Have a wonderful day!

Linking to Can I Get a Whoop! Whoop! at Concessions of a Fabric Addict and Finish it up Friday at Crazy Mom Quilts. 

Bibs for 'Princess Barfs-a-Lot!!

Yes, poor Charlotte has reflux, and that means that she barfs a LOT!  Her mommy asked if I could make her several more bibs to help with the clothing preservation.  Of course, I said yes!

Here are the first 6 cut and ready to sew.  I used a free PDF pattern from Jaime Young at Sew She Sews.

Here are all 12.

These are my two favorite.  Her daddy is a Doctor, so I found this Dr. Cat fabric amusing.  The lemons are from me!

Each bib has a different quilted design.  Great practice!

I had a lot of fun with these.  I know that she will use them all....probably all in one day!

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Here she is!

I finished up this lovely just about 15 minutes ago!  So nice to see her complete.  This is the second quilt made with these fabrics.  These were the leftover scraps.

She measures 66x77.  The great gals at NFQ tied her, and she is ready for this years MCC Sale & Auction!  April 4 & 5 at Fresno Pacific University.  If you have further questions, either email me or leave your question in the comments.

Here are some quick stats in regards to the MCC Sale & Auction.  Dotty figured out how much money our group (the NFQ, North Fresno Quilters)  has been able to help raise since it started back in 1989.  (I have only been a part of this group for 3 yrs.)  At the beginning, they were turning in one 1 quilt a year, now we turn in about 70.  Here is the total.......over $250,000!!  All of that money goes toward disaster relief both here and over seas.  I praise the Lord that I can be a small part of this big picture.

Linking to Finish it up Friday at Crazy Mom Quilts and Can I Get a Whoop! Whoop! at Confessions of a Fabric Addict.

A great tote for...use your imagination!!

This was so much fun!  Cindy from Live a Colorful Life has a wonderful little tote she uses for her knitting and crocheting and I just fell in love with it.  I asked her if I could look inside and she graciously said I could.  Well, I came home and immediately started drawing a pattern.  I gathered up all the items needed to make it and got started.

See what I mean!?!?!  This could be used for a lunch bucket if you used laminate for your lining,  notions tote, you name it!

This is how I figure out my patterns.  Lots and lots of scribbles.

Two layers of interfacing on the sides.  Light weight and fusible batting.  That filthy piece under the iron is my pressing cloth!  Yuck!

 

The bottom has 3 layers of interfacing.  Light weight, ultra firm and fusible batting. 

 



It took almost as long to prep the pieces for sewing as it did to sew this tote!

 This is the handle.  I didn't use interfacing here because there are 4 layers of fabric for the handle.

This is the bottom of the outside fabric.  Not hard, just tricky.  Just take your time, and it will go together well!

Stringing the cord through for the drawstrings.

I'm sorry that I didn't put purse feet on the bottom.  Next time!

Love the buttons on the handles.  These allow the handle to drop to the sides.

This shows how the handle drops down.

I added the pockets all wound the inside. 

Had to share this photo bomb!  This is Daisy!

Facts:

8 in. across the bottom
10 in. high
7 in. handle drop

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