Card Chaos

Just found my card box in a pile of crafting supplies (figures), and thought I'd share with you some of my designs.  Enjoy!

Christmas Stockings

Last Christmas I made 5 of these cute stockings out of Dr.Seuss fabrics for my sister-in-law's family!  I combined a bunch of patterns that I found online and made it into my own pattern, so I don't have one to share with you. Sorry!  I believe I still have the paper cut out...somewhere...that I could try to find if you'd like!

Fleece Bomber Hat

This was last year's Christmas presents for my nephews!  They love camo!  These hats were super warm and incredibly adorable when they had them on!

You can find the tutorial to make this here. 

This was one of the more challenging sewing projects that I have completed!  The trickiest part was figuring out the sizes of the boys heads! Luckily they ended up fitting!

Window Valances

My mother-in-laws request for Christmas this year was valances.  Her windows are 40" wide, so I made them according to that size.

Supplies: (Makes 2)

• 2 yards of fabric
• 2 yards of white backing (since the fabric I chose was see-through)
• Thread

Directions:

1. Cut patterned and backing fabric so you have 2 pieces measuring 18"x2yards
2. Line up the patterned fabric and sew a hem in the middle (connect your 2 patterned pieces). Do the same with your backing.
3. Sew together the long sides of the patterned and backing fabrics - RIGHT SIDES TOGETHER
4. Turn rights sides out.  Iron.
5. Fold the ends over 1/4" two times and hem.
6. Fold the top of the fabric down 3". (You are making the pouch for the rod to go through.
7. Make sure your pouch is straight and sew two seams, leaving about 1.5" in between for the rod to go through.

Approximate Cost:

$15-$20

Buttercup Bag

This is one of my favorite bags to make because it is so inexpensive and cute!  The only problem is that it is small, and I always fill it with too much stuff!  Maybe I need to consider downsizing :-/.

You can find the tutorial here and find cute variations of it here.

Zippered Pouch

I decided to use up some of my scraps and depleted my mom's stash of zippers with this fun pouch! I decided to add some tabs onto the sides to make it easier to open the zipper. You can find the tutorial here.

Scallop Border Dish Cloth

Still working on dish cloths, but they are getting fancier and fancier!  Excited to work on one that actually looks slightly difficult when it is finished!  Let me assure you, though, it really isn't difficult at all!  I love the scallop border, but I wish I could figure out a way to get starting side to be scalloped instead of a straight line.

You can find the tutorial for this dish cloth here.

I also found a new crochet pattern website that I am IN LOVE WITH!  It is www.ravelry.com!  It is full of awesome, free patterns!

Dish Cloth #2

I finally decided to try out a few new stitches, and made this ginormous dish cloth!  I did a row of single crochet, double crochet, single crochet, triple crochet and then repeated until it was square. I'm very excited to finally be learning new stitches!  Hopefully I can soon graduate from dish cloths to other projects!

Crochet Dish Cloth

One of my many goals this winter has been to learn how to crochet.  This is my first dishtowel make completely of single crochet.  I believe I made about a half dozen of these before I allowed myself to move on to any other stitches!  Good thing they are a practical craft, because I have a lot of them laying around the house!

To make this dish cloth I chained 35 and did rows of single chains until it was square.

Ruffled Receiving Blanket

I recently found a tutorial for the Ruffled Receiving Blanket on Pinterest and fell in love!  This is so much simpler than doing a mitered corner and looks super cute too!  Definitely my preferred choice for making girl receiving blankies!

Supplies:

• 1 yard of 2 coordinating flannel fabrics
• 1 package of matching sating bias tape

Follow the directions from this tutorial (pages 8-12 of the free download)