Scripture Cover

I don't have any kind of scripture cover or storage system.  I don't remember which blog I read but it led me to BabyBlvd's Etsy site.  I purchased her LDS quad scripture cover pattern at the beginning of the year, purchased fabric the first week I was in Utah, and finally made it when I returned to Washington at the end of August.  I made it two floors below where my scriptures are & was too lazy to go get them, so the fit isn't exactly perfect, but I like it.  The pictures aren't the best:

T-Shirts for Crew & Daniel

My nephews Crew & Daniel have birthdays almost two months apart.  Crew's nickname at home is Crew Bug.  Earlier this year he would only answer to Crewbug - not Crew bug Smith, Crew, or bug - only Crewbug - one name only  So I decided I'd make him a t-shirt to reflect his one name status:

Danny's obsession is trains - mostly Thomas the Tank Engine, but any train works, so of course I needed to make him a shirt with a train on it.  Here he is modeling it:

Headbands

 A couple of months ago I bought a couple of  patterns from Babyblvd on Etsy.  One of them was for reversible headbands.  I decided to make a few for Lisa Fuller for her birthday and then some for Dallis for her high school graduation.  This is how Lisa's turned out:

Man bibs

Since Dad's surgery he's had a hard time making sure all the food gets into his mouth and not all over him.  I decided to make some Man Bibs - manly bibs he could wear.  I picked out some manly fabrics - like spiders and used the top of an apron pattern to shape Man bibs.  It was fun to figure out a way to help dad, but have him feel manly.

Julie's Quilt

When I worked in Northern California I loved to hang out with and help the office ladies!  Very few mornings went by when I wouldn't stop in and say Hi to Julie Bingham the attendance clerk.  When I left for Southern California Julie & I kept in touch.  It was also around that time that her husband was diagnosed again with cancer.  For about three years they battled the cancer together.  Around the first week of April in 2008 Julie's husband lost his battle with cancer.  I knew that the time was coming and had already begun working on a quilt to send her regardless of what happened.  This is what I sent her:

 The pattern is from the same book as my Jingle all the Way quilt - 11 Laps from Fats. 

 One of the things I did was go back through Julie's posts on their CaringBridge site and pulled out some of the scriptures that gave her strength thoughout her husband's battle with cancer.  Then I embroidered them around the outside of the quilt.

 She loved it and I loved making it!

table runner

I thought I had blogged about a quilt I made for my friend Julie after her husband died, but I guess I haven't yet.  I'll do that soon.  Anyways - I mention that quilt because I made this table runner from the leftovers of her quilt.  I had a lot of tiny triangles that I sewed into tiny squares.  Then I made pinwheels and took what I had and made up a table runner.  I used the left over binding from the big quilt I made to bind this one.  It's very springy!

 

12 Days of Christmas

Two years ago I saw a beautiful Christmas wall hanging (that looked way better than the one above) in a magazine in 2008.  It was called 12 Days of Christmas and was created by Anni Downs from Hatched and Patched in Australia.  I decided I would attempt to make it.  I completed most of it by Christmas 2009, but never quite completed it.  I decided I had to finish it by this Christmas, and so I did.  I didn't get the placement quite right, but it is finished and it hung on my wall for Christmas this year.  I really like Anni Downs' patterns!