My second apology

I could sit here and make up excuses all day but the fact of the matter is I've been completely ignoring my blog!  It's been a mix of internet issues, not crafting, and making friends.  Now my issues are solved, I'm going to make an effort to craft more, and my friend is going to help me with it.  EW is my new best friend over here and she has introduced me to the world of cloth diapering!  It's sooooooo much to learn but I am learning and I am liking it.  I always thought of putting Munchkin in cloth diapers (G-diapers to be exact) but when I tried to jump into it I realized it was waaay over my head so I decided not to.  But now that EW has been able to sit down and show me I'm really starting to understand!  So one night we were talking and I told her that I really wanted to try and make a cloth diaper and she totally spurred me on telling me it was a great idea.  So I gave it some thought and went through a list of materials in my head: cotton print, check; flannel, check; elastic, check; left over all natural cotton quilt batting....check!  The only thing I was missing was some velcro but that was all to easy to fix. We went to the thrift shop on post and I found an item with some good ol' fashioned white velcro!  So the next day I did some cutting and sewing and some seam ripping and some more sewing and viola!

I made a diaper.  It totally needs some improvements, like different elastic and pattern tweaking, but still, pretty effin good for a first try from stuff that was lying around!  Not to mention it looks uber cute on Munchkin's little tushie!  I fully plan on making more and refining my technique.

I also finally got my Michael Miller fabric and I do have to say it's super fabulous!  I got it all washed and today so now I'm off to start clipping my tangled mess of fabric!  Wish me luck!

Busy little bee...

What have I been doing the past couple of days?  Not working on my quilt that's what!  I did however complete some uncompleted projects.

The first of which is a Hanging Toy Sack for my son.  These are all fabrics I used in his nursery bedding (which I will post pictures of when I get back home!).  This has been in the making since like November and I had gotten most of it done but it needed some hand sewing to finish.  Since starting this one I made another one for my nephew and that one got done MUCH quicker.  Since I couldn't find a tutorial on this I just kinda winged it and now I think I've got it down, so I will be creating a picture tutorial to go along with it.  But that's another one of those things that has to happen when I get home.

My second project I finished was Megan's Apron and Oven Mitt.  Both of these are completely functionless except for pretend for a smallish child.  I will be remaking these :D  I do like how they came out though and I'm super happy something needing hand stitching got finished in an almost reasonable amount of time.

Next is not something I needed to finished but just something I needed to do before we leave.  My SIL got the great idea to do stepping stones for Mother's Day for my MIL.  This was another one of those projects that was supposed to get done a while ago (like Dec/Jan).  I really like how his came out!  Now I just have to do mine!







And these are what I'm working on for the next couple of days.  My MIL asked me to liven up her director's chairs with a fresh coat of paint.  This is the perfect way to get new life out of your old patio chairs or to clean up some inexpensive chairs you've picked up from a yard sale!  I really like the brown she picked out and we have these beautiful rustic red panels to replace the old ones with.

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