Crafty Stuff

The one good thing about this past week is that I have completed a ton of craft projects (some have been "in progress" since 2010!

I forgot to mention when going over my goals, I did make the living room curtains!  I also made matching pillows with the leftover fabric.  Earlier this month, I used some of the fabric to cover a side table (I bought years ago in the As-Is Section of IKEA, the top has a giant price tag on it, so it's always covered up).  The fabric in this project is Heather Bailey's Pop Garden Sway-Brown.

This pillow was "designed" by myself and just filled with fiber.

This pillow used a pillow form for its stuffing.

This is the table, I found something to make this easier to do was to use Iron on transfer paper to get it to stick to the top, then I stapled gun/glue gunned the underside.

For some reason this is upside down, but this is the right side of the curtain.

This is the back side (what you'll see looking into the house).

 The second project I completed was a baby sweater for my friend who is due in January.  I made the decision to make this project on a whim when I found the yarn at JoAnn Fabrics.  The yarn is Red Heart Team Spirit in Burgundy/Gold, the burgundy is much closer to crimson than what I think of as burgundy.  Crimson and Gold were our fraternity colors in college - and my friend and her husband are both brothers, so it only seemed natural that their baby would have something in those colors. This was my first time working with self-striping yarn, I think in the future I would buy extra yarn or choose a pattern that didn't create the jacket in one go.  It's the just the stripes are different sizes in the front, back, and sleeves.  The pattern I used was from Lion Brand's Crochet Baby Christening Set (which I had previously made for C.)  It's a free pattern on Lion Brand's site.

Love the penguin buttons, in honor of the fraternity bird.

 The very last project to mention was the start of my gift tote bags!  This year I've decided to make some tote bags as part of people's gifts rather than using wrapping paper.  The first one I made is for my sister E's birthday gift.  I used this tutorial from Skip to My Lou.  I'm pretty happy with this bag and plan on using the pattern to create other bags (I love that it allows the flexibility to change sizes).

Finished bag

Stuffed with goodies

Lining inside

 Have a good night and a fun weekend!  I hope to get another project finished before my next post!