Wordless Wednesday – Hydroponic
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TTMT #168 – Quilts, Costumes & Summer Challenges!
- A Friendly Game (paper pieced chess) (retired pattern as of 2020)
- Soap!
- Sewhooked Summer Challenge – The deadline to post in Sunday, July 1, 8 am (CST)
- Beads in a Bottle
- Mod Podge Dimensional Magic
- Fandom In Stitches
I have not forgotten about my June 12 for 2012 (last year’s Embroidery BOM)! It is in progress and I should have it finished by Friday, which is still June! Woo!
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All Sudsed Up – Homemade Hand Soap!
After seeing this recipe for making a gallon of hand soap on Pinterest, I could not resist giving it a try!
It takes one bar of hand soap, 2 TBS liquid glycerin and 1 gallon of water. So simple!
I used a bar of tea tree soap for my version, and followed the recipe to the letter. My house smelled extra-nice for a couple of days, and the soap smells just as good.
For the first few hours after cooking, the soap looked a bit like milky water, but once it was completely cooled, it was absolutely the perfect consistency for a hand pump.
I doubt the refills will last for a year for my family, but we will get a lot of use out of that one bar of soap!
If you try this, make sure you have containers ready to go. I filled all my soap dispensers as well as one empty soap refill bottle, but I had to improvise with the rest.
See you tomorrow for Talk To Me Tuesday!
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Cooking With Crochet
I have some insanely talented friends. They are inspiring, creative, fun, supportive and just oh-so-many other things!
Amber is one of these people.
She’s the Crochet Princess responsible for Amber’s Originals. She has supported me though many an endeavor and I’m absolutely bouncing to share her exciting news!
Amber has created the most amazing one-woman amigurumi crochet food display, possibly in the history of EVER…
Cooking With Crochet: Tasty Textile Treats features crochet food made by Amber Lowery. The show is live now through July at the Peoria Public Main Library.
Cooking with Crochet: Tasty Textile Treats
Peoria Public Main Library (lower level 1)
107 N.E. Monroe
Peoria, IL 61602-1070
309-497-2000
Monday through Saturday: 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Amber created 655 pieces for this show AND she made each piece herself over just a three month period!
She’s amazing, creative and insanely talented. I hope you enjoy this glimpse of her show…
Basket Foods
Healthy Choices
Fruit Basket and Some Cheese
Mexican Basket
Dagwood and friends
Sandwich Fixins
Ice Cream!
See more pictures of Cooking With Crochet!
Be sure to visit Amber’s Originals and Like Amber’s work on Facebook!
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TTMT #167 – Cloaks, Monkeys & Stars
In this video:
Photos of Cat’s Quilt, as seen in today’s video:
It’s a quilt!
The quilt back. (Cat is, among other things, a doggy mom!)
Cat’s quilt was made by:
Aalia, Linda, Margie, Amber, Julia, Jenn, Marissa, Kristel and Jennifer
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A Favor for my Best Friend
My best friend of close to two decades (holy cow!), had shoulder surgery last week.
Jewells was working on gifts and other obligations (including working full time!) right up to the wire, including making a quilt top for her brand new great-nephew, baby Oliver. I wanted to do something for her as a get well gift and I wracked my brain trying to think of something helpful. It ended up being kismet that she needed a quilt top finished and I needed something special for a get well gift. Long story short, I offered to finish the quilt, and after swearing to her that it would not be a burden to me (it most emphatically was not!!), Jewells sent me all her stuff for the quilt, and I finished it up this weekend.
My free-motion quilting on anything bigger than a wall hanging tends to be a meander or waves (I’m still learning!). This time, I thought meandering was the way to go.
Basted and ready to go!
Quilting, in progress! Look at those happy little monkeys!
Quilting close up!
Fun fact…the border fabric on this quilt is the sashing/border fabric on my Project of Doom quilt!
And more quilting…
More quilting close-ups…’cause I can!
The back!
Quilting on the back.
The awesome label that Jewells made (fabric markers over printed text).
See you tomorrow for Talk To Me Tuesday!
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Patched
I’ve been patching dishtowels with leftover 2 1/2″ squares. I used random squares and a simple zig-zag stitch, putting a patch on each side wherever my (favorite!) dishtowels were getting thin.
I don’t know why, but it makes me happy to see the different-colored patches sprinkled on these old towels. 🙂
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The Quilt That Karen Made
Once Upon a Time, 31 designers had a party.
There were 30 days of Garden-themed patterns with a lovely, bonus border.
We called it the Paper Pieced Pattern-A-Day Garden Party Blog Hop.
This is the quilt that Karen made!
Click here to see all the Garden Party posts!
Did you make a Garden Party project? Share your photos here!
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TTMT #166 – Summer Costumin’, had me a blast!
- Kagome costume in TTMT, 2009: Collar & Skirt, Shirt
- Blue’s Clues project on Fandom In Stitches
- Sponsor Fandom In Stitches July Challenge – Email me!
Eridan (L) & Kagome (R)
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Fandom Friends
This is Payden.
He’s 5, loves Blue’s Clues and will be having his second liver transplant soon.
Fandom In Stitches is helping his grandmother, Karen, create a quilt for him.
You can help.
