One of the pillows I made for the playroom just wasn’t sitting right with me. I used the pink honeycomb fabric on both sides and I think it was just too much tiny print. I had some of the synthetic fleecy-type material leftover from Elise’s Halloween costume. So I ripped the pillow apart (and felt a […]
Colorful couch pillows
Our new couch needed some new pillows. It came with a couple the same fabric as the couch, but… yeah, boring. With most of the room in neutrals, I needed to inject some color. This one was from a half yard of home dec weight fabric from Jo-Ann, believe it or not. At Jo-Ann, I […]
Box-style floor pillow
Here’s another creation for the playroom: a floor pillow! It’s about the size of a standard couch cushion and was so simple to make. I started out with nearly a yard of this chocolate brown minky fabric. It was a remnant from the bin at Jo-Ann marked at $6, but it rang up even lower […]
Halloween: DIY lamb costume
My thoughts are that you get two, maybe three Halloweens to pick your kid’s costume before they start requesting who knows what. This might be my last choice with Elise, so I wanted to make sure she was a cute animal with ears. Not being the greatest seamstress, I started with this easy idea from Martha Stewart, […]
Appliquéd onesies for a foodie baby
From last week’s baby shower, I made a couple of appliquéd onesies for my nephew-to-be. My sister-in-law is a true foodie, so the onesies were part of a gift basket that was all food related. (Unfortunately, I didn’t snap a photo of the whole basket.) There are probably a million tutorials on the internet about appliqué, […]