October 2012A Vision to Remember All Things Handmade Blog: October 2012

What's on my floor today?

I was able to get some custom orders cut out today while the little miss was sleeping. A little of a bunch of colors. Hot pink, turquoise, orange, black, purple. I think the only color from the rainbow I am missing is yellow

Simple, Cheap Art with Leather Texture

I had a huge blanket wall in my basement. I hated looking at it. Seriously! So when my when opened our new clothes I had a little a-ha moment. Its actually kinda embarrassing that I have cardboard on my wall.

So here is how I did it.

I took the 2 pieces of cardboard. They are about 2 1/2 ft square and 1 inch thick.

I gathered my other supplies (paint, tissue paper, and painting supplies)

Then we got to work painting.

First roll a coat of paint on. I work in sections about as big as my tissue paper.

After you have painted a spot then place the wrinkled tissue paper onto the board. After you have done that with all of the board then do another coat or 2 over the tissue paper so that it is all covered.

Then after I painted I took some stain and did a little rubbing of it all over to get it into the creases to age it a bit.

Then after I painted with the tissue paper texture I painted a couple lines for the stems. Then I used some of the clay buttons I made a while ago, and some metal flowers I got from Pick Your Plum and hot glued them onto the board.

So yes, I now have some cheap ol art to cover up my big huge blank wall.

Rag Quilt Pillow Shams

I have been making a few custom rag quilt pillow shams lately for customers. Here are 2 of them:

Ruffled flower pillow sham

Zebra and hot pink pillow sham

Want to make your own? I now offer the sewing pattern in my etsy shop

Ruffle and Minky Baby Blanket

I think this is one of my favorite blankets I have made so far for my little baby girl. It has minky on one side and ruffled fabric on the other.

To start out I cut my minky into a 44 inch square. Then I cut my ruffled fabric into the same size. I have noticed that the ruffle fabric comes in different widths. I wanted my blanket square and the ruffle fabric came in 44 inches wide. When I cut in between the ruffles I cut right in the middle so that I would have something to sew without catching the ruffle.

then take one of your pieces and lay it down with the right side facing you. Then put the other one on top of that with the wrong side facing you like the picture above. Pin them together. Just make sure that all of your ruffles are heading the same direction

Sew all the way around the blanket but make sure to leave a little hole big enough for you to turn the blanket right side out. I like to use a walking foot when I work with minky. When you are done pull out ALL of the pins (for some reason I left one in and had to unpick a spot so I could get it out)

Make sure to check around the blanket for any missed sewed spots or if you caught any ruffles going the wrong direction.

I didn't take a picture of this part but, sew your little hole closed. The minky will hide really well where you sew the hole shut. I hid the sewing on the ruffle side by flipping up ruffle and sewing under neath it.

This blanket I think took me about 45 minutes and most of that time was in pinning the ruffles. I get so many compliments on how cute this blanket is, and now that it is getting cold around here I think I need to make her a couple more.

Old Trunk Turned Sofa Table

If you follow me on Instagram you would know a couple months ago I found this awesome trunk for a steal of $10! It is OLD. Its cracked. Its definitely not in very good shape but I think in its oldness there is a lot of beauty!

At the same garage sale I found a table. So of course I bought the table. It was only $10 (now I have to figure out what to do with the table top) and made my trunk into a table itself. Its not quite finished yet. I need to make a shelf for about 8 inches off the floor and pain that board red. But all in due time.