Tell Me Tuesday #5

Hello, and welcome to Tell Me Tuesday! First, if you are new here, please comment and let me know you stopped in, how you found me, and be sure to follow.


Last week I had 31 entries in the Tell Me Tuesday party and that is FABULOUS! That means that I get to see more great, creative and inspiring projects that like minded friends all over Blogland are busy with this holiday season! Here are my faves from last week:

My Tell Me Tuesday Fave #3 is this entry from Happy Go Lucy--Fun Subway Art Ornaments. Are you like me and you've been seeing terrific subway art-inspired projects cropping up everywhere? Well this is a great way to get into the mix and try your hand at it.


The Tell Me Tuesday Fave #2 is this amazing Refashioned Sweater Bag. I am in love with this project! I think that the red trim and the flower embellishment make his project so perfect. Thanks to Michelle Dean over at Polka Dots and Pizza for bringing this cute project to the party!


And drum roll please, here is my Tell Me Tuesday Fave #1-- a GORGEOUS Vintage Sheet Music Tree Topper! This submission is from Sarah over at Forever Newlyweds. I have got to get my hands on some old sheet music. I think this would be stunning with pages from an old Atlas as well.


Thanks ladies, be sure to grab your button for your blog to let everyone know that you were featured in the Tell Me Tuesday Link Party.


Now on to the party!

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Show me what you have been working on, and I will pick the three highest visited links and share them with you next week. Tell Me Tuesday!

Tell Me Tuesday Faves -- Tomorrow!

Hello my friends, I have decided to combine the Tell Me Tuesday Faves with the actual link party. So, if you are here checking to see if the post you submitted in last week's party has been featured, please check back tomorrow!

Thanks for participating in Tell Me Tuesday! I can't wait to see what you all have been working on!

Scrappy Quilted Christmas Potholders

I think I might really have caught the crafting and sewing bug. I am actually lying awake in bed at night, thinking about the long list of projects that I want to complete. (Well, that and that Katy Perry song that I can't get out of my head.)

Anyhow, my friend Stephanie from Built to Last sent me some adorable quilted potholders last year. I proudly hang them on my Hoosier cabinet so that I can look at them every day.


Since I look at her gorgeous potholders everyday, I have been thinking about making some of them. I was happy to notice that Stephanie's do not have binding. I made my own binding for the first quilt I ever made and it was a long haul, and one I am not ready to repeat.

I looked around on the Web for a tutorial that would make a potholder similar to hers, and I just couldn't find one. But I did find this one, made by Melanie at Texas Freckles, and I felt like I could do it!

Tah-dah!!!


Melanie's tutorial involves piecing scraps one piece at a time and sewing them across the Insulbrite, then laying the next scrap right sides together on top of the first scrap, and so on, and so on. In this potholder below I started with the Santa scrap in the center and then kept moving along.


I used a piece of the green and white polka-dot on the back. And look, binding!!!


Aren't they cute???


Oh, and yes, I know they don't look like Stephanie's. I actually ended up making two more yesterday afternoon, and based on hers. Wouldn't you know, I simply looked at hers and USED MY BRAIN to figure out how to copy them. I'll show them to you next week!

Happy creating!

This post is a part of the following link parties:

Get Your Craft on at Today's Creative Blog

Tip Me Tuesday at Tip Junkie

Take A Look Tuesday at the Sugar Bee

Upcycled Toddler T-Shirt Dress

I was introduced to a FABULOUS toddler t-shirt dress a few weeks ago, and I couldn't get the tutorial out of my head. Cheri put it together from I Am Momma Hear Me Roar. You can find the tutorial here.

This is my version:

Cheri actually handpainted some of the t-shirt material that she used. I knew I had some fun old shirts that I hadn't worn in a while, so I grabbed them and got started. I made two dresses in under two hours, using a turtleneck as the top for one and a long-sleeve t-shirt top for the other. The strips all came from the same shirts.

When I finished the dress for my daughter (the other is for a friend's daughter) I asked her to model it for me. From the start the shoot was not going well. My model was being camera shy:


Here you can at least see how the dress falls:


My model was getting delirious at this point. I think its funny that it looks like her tights match her sheet.


Awww . . . this is better!


Here is the finished dress. In Cheri's tutorial she sews the strips wrong sides together to have the horizontal seams show. I did this on the first dress, but sort of forgot on Ella's.


I showed the dress to my husband and he said he recognized the strips in the dress right away! Notice that the last strip is actually from the bottom of a shirt so that you don't have to hem the dress!


Here is the one I made for my little friend Mary Larkin, complete with the now-famous ruffle pin that her mother made:


Here is a close-up of the shirt fabrics, which came from:

Target
Old Navy
Marshalls
Old Navy

And isn't the twirly turtleneck so sweet with the ruffle pin?


Thanks for the great tutorial Cheri! I will definitely be making more of these in the future. To see my other two upcycled dresses, visit these links:

Ruffle Dress / Tunic Tutorial

Upcycled T-shirt to Toddler Dress Tutorial

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Tell Me Tuesday Link Party #4

Here we are for Tell Me Tuesday Link Party #4--has it really been a month since I started this party?

I made a few fun things this week, and I have a few more still to go. Some were inspired by entries in last week's party, and some I have been thinking about for a while.

My Sweetheart Ella in her Santa Headband

My friend Flan over at Three Sisterz made a fabulous fabric headband that I stole from her she gave me, and I have been meaning to make one based on hers. This week I did it, and made it for the Christmas photos I took of the kids for the Shutterfly offer.

I made two FABULOUS dresses today out of upcycled t-shirts that I will be sharing on Wednesday. I am also making a garland for the Christmas tree out of Disney princess books that I bought at the dollar store.

Now on to the party!

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Show me what you have been working on, and I will pick the three highest visited links and share them with you next Monday. Tell Me Tuesday!





This post is a part of the following parties:

Topsy Turvey Tuesday

Lucky Linky Tuesday

Tell Me Tuesday #3 Faves

Happy Monday, and welcome to the Tell Me Tuesday Faves from last week's party!


Here is Fave #3! This is a Merry Christmas Banner from Red Heads Craft More Fun! She writes that she saw a similar one in a store with the initials "P.B." so she made one for herself. Go check out the tutorial!


Fave #2 is this Pieced Ribbon Applique T-Shirt from Leafy Tree Top Spot. I have never seen one made from ribbon, and I think it has a nice luster that you wouldn't get from fabric.


And here's my pick for #1 Fave--it is a Fabric Necklace from Mr. & Mrs. Phillips. The tutorial is great--and I will be very torn as to whether or not I wear one of these, or a big ruffle pin for the New Year's Open House I am planning!


Thanks ladies, be sure to grab your button for your blog to let everyone know that you were featured in the Tell Me Tuesday Link Party.


And to everyone else that participated--thanks for making this such a fun event! We had 18 participants--I look forward to everyone's contributions tomorrow--and please spread the word and tell your friends. If I can get 50 entries, I will host a giveaway!

Have a wonderful week! I am working on no less than three projects that have been shared in Tell Me Tuesday over these last few weeks. I will be sharing them this week, so stay tuned!

A Little Friday Love for My Antique Sewing Cabinet

I was lucky to receive this antique "Make Do" 19th century Sewing Cabinet on my last trip to see my Dad. He had the little cabinet, and he added the dowels and the vegetable ivory pin cushion to make a little sewing cabinet.


The vegetable ivory pin cushion is so sweet--the needles that are in it are from my Grandmother's sewing basket. She made dresses for my sister and I when we were little girls. I like to think about Meemaw when I am working on some small piece of hand sewing.

I recently purchased some Guterman thread, which came in a clear plastic case. I think the spools are so much cozier in their little drawers, don't you?


My Dad embodies the term "Yankee ingenuity." According to Wikipedia, Yankee ingenuity is an American English reference to the self-reliance of early colonial settlers of New England, United States. It describes an attitude of make-do with materials on hand.

Another wonderful addition to my collection. Thanks again, Dad for bringing me these little treasures.

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