Archive: Wedding and bridal shower gifts

I started taking pictures of my completed projects a few years ago but most of them were taken with a film camera rather than digital and since I don't have a scanner, I have no pictures to show you... here are a few digital pics that i had... some day I'll scan some more pics to share...

To Jed and Annika

To my cousin Suzy and Justin

To my cousin Mikey and Lisa

I think I gave this one to Kelly and Justin, correct me if I'm wrong

Archive Project: Kelly's Wedding

For my sister-in-law's wedding last December I decided my then 1 year old little boy needed a really cute vest to wear. Well, I'm cheap... I mean... thrifty... so I didn't want to buy one from a store and pay an arm and a leg then have him wear it for one day. So instead I found this great material at the fabric store in remnants and bought a pattern and a few buttons. For about 3 bucks and a couple evenings of work I had this cute little outfit for him. I'm still scared of making button holes so I made my mom do it for me. One of these days I'll brave that task! I'm sure I'll tell you all about it!

Since the wedding was in Dec. in Minnesota a coat of some sort is in order for the bride... (and a Columbia parka just doesn't cut it with a wedding dress) My sister-in-law was initially going to borrow a coat from a friend of mine but then I got the hair brain idea of making one. When we were looking at bridesmaids dresses months before, the bride saw a cloak at the shop that they rented out for winter weddings so I had a picture in my head of what I wanted to make. I found a pattern and white bridal satin was on sale. I had to make a couple alterations and added a lining but it was pretty easy. With a little fur from Bien, thanks Bien, the cloak was done... I think it turned out pretty good if I do say so myself!

Levi...

My cousin and his wife just had their second baby so I sent this afghan off to them today. It was made from some yarn I had at home left over from past projects that I really liked but couldn't match to new yarn due to dye lot issues...grr dye lots... so I put them together for this little project. I looked at it again last night to take this picture before packing it up, and realized how small it really did turn out, but hey, babies are small too, eh?

Four Square....

For my husband's grandparents 60th wedding anniversary, everyone in the family is suppose to make a quilt block for a memory quilt. Well... there are 4 of us in the family... so there are 4 blocks to make. I decided to do hand prints for the boys... Buddy wanted a twins logo on his, and I found a cool pattern of an appliqued loon, so I decided to make that for myself... just finished them last night... gotta send them off to Buddy's mom so she can piece the whole thing together... looking forward to seeing it when it is all done!

Here comes the Judge...

I've been working on a wall hanging for my husbands boss, a judge, for the past year. Okay, so I've been thinking about it for about a year when I first learned that this is a quilt block named, courthouse steps. Get it, judge, courthouse steps.. hehehe.. anyways. So I looked around and one pattern, from Fon's and Porter really struck me... I kept coming back to it thinking, "I love that, I could do that..." If you haven't already done so, stop, go look at the website, see the pattern I'm talking about... okay, now we can continue.. I wasn't such a fan of the fall leaves so after hemming and hawing, and getting some support from my quilt support team (you know who you are) I decided to drop the leaves and do some redwork designs in the open spaces. Well, I don't know if I've ever done embroidery before, but it didn't take me too long to get the hang of things. I wish I would have used some stabilizer or something under the fabric cause it's isn't a flat as it should be. I did finish all 4 designs (they were quilt stencils) and pieced the top. I need to add the borders now. I'm a "figure it out as you go" sort of gal, so I didn't really know what I wanted to use for borders ahead of time, well, I thought I did, but it doesn't look right so now I'm stuck. I need some help. Any ideas?

Prairie Dawn, blog-a-holic

Alright, so I'm kinda a big fan of crafting... I always have been! As a kid, my second favorite store to go into was always the craft store (first being my dad's store, of course). I could spend hours looking and letting my mind wonder about all the wonderful things I could make! And now, with the world wide web at my fingertips I feel like a little kid in the candystore, err, I mean craft store... looking at patterns and notions... thinking up enough projects to make so I would never have to buy a gift ever again. I'm one of those people who have 5 projects I'm working on at any given time and 6 more that I'm searching out the materials for.

My crafts of choice as of late have been quilting and general sewing and crochet. I'm intrigued by scrap booking, but am fearful that if I start, I'll start buying tons of stuff that goes along with it, so I've steered clear of paper crafts for the most part. I've done a little craft painting here and there, but I'm not so good with making a composition, so that'll wait too. I worked in a bakery as my summer job in high school and through college. I learned the basics of decorating a cake but lately have started making chocolates... ummm... chocolate! I know how to knit, but am pretty lousy at it. I'm much quicker with a hook, so I crochet lots. The only channel that comes in clear on our TV is PBS so I've seen a lot of sewing and quilting how-to shows. It inspired me to put my grandmothers old sewing machine to good use and made a few quilts. last winter I made a white fur trimmed cloak for my sister-in-law's wedding and a vest and matching bow tie for my little boy.

See future blogs about all my projects... since I make lots of things as gifts, If I blog about something for someone who may come across this little corner of cyberspace, I'll just hide those entries till the gift has been given... I have taken lots of pictures of past projects that I've made so I'll try to post some of those pics on here too... mainly for a journal of sorts for myself, but hope you enjoy it as well!