Friday, April 12, 2013

Staging a Bedroom, Making Rubber Tubs into a Bed

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Doing it a bit Different 
This is the corner where my buffet was at one time. This room has never had a bed in it, it was my sewing room. So putting the house on the market it needed a bed.
Making Rubber Tubs into a Bed

I took the packed fabric tubs and make a Day Bed

Staging a Bedroom, Making Rubber Tubs into a Bed

Sheet to cover the tubs and then an all feather quilt

Staging a Bedroom, Making Rubber Tubs into a Bed

Pretty old Quilt

Staging a Bedroom, Making Rubber Tubs into a Bed

Pillows

Making Rubber Tubs into a Bed


Staging a Bedroom, Making Rubber Tubs into a Bed

I like ! ! 


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Friday, April 5, 2013

My Singer Feather Weight Sewing Machine

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I knew it was in the closet and seeing it again, well...
It's been a very long time
I had to say good-bye to it's original box years ago and this carpet bag 
is perfect for it.

my singer feather weight sewing machine

A Singer Feather Weight - 
My mom gave this to me years ago and I used it for classes for years. 
She tells the story behind it.  This sewing machine was the first thing that her and my Father purchased together. She remember is being around 70.00 dollars. If they did it on payments my Grandfather would have to co-sign. They saved and purchased with cash, she said with a very large smile.  The pedal was replaced sometime ??







It works wonderful 


And So Pretty

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Beth Ann is a Quilter and an Author who decided to self-publish her books and quilt pattern books

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PDF download quilt patterns on Etsy

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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

FREE Quilt Pattern for Spring

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WE MADE IT
It’s SPRING ! ! ! 


Spring Quilt pattern tutorial
And, I'm here with a quilt pattern to Celebrate !

Cutting for one Block
Finished block size 10” x 10”

Cut 4 Gray – 2 ½” x 2 ½”
Cut 4 Yellow – 2 7/8” x 2 7/8”
Cut corner to corner
Sew triangle unit together

Cut 2 Yellow – 2 7/8” x 2 7/8”
Cut 2 White -  2 7/8” x 2 7/8”
Make Triangles
Cut 4 White – 2 7/8” x 2 7/8”
Cut corner to corner
Sew triangle unit together

Cut 1 Yellow – 2 ½” x 2 ½”
Cut 4 White – 2 ½” x 4 ½”

Sew together as shown



Cutting for one Block
Finished block size 10” x 10”

Cut 2 Yellow – 4 7/8” x 4 7/8”
Cut corner to corner

Cut 2 Yellow – 2 7/8” x 2 7/8”
Cut 2 White -  2 7/8” x 2 7/8”
Make Triangles

Cut 4 White - 2 7/8” x 2 7/8”
Cut Corner to corner

Cut 1 Yellow – 2 ½” x 2 ½”
Cut 4 White – 2 ½” x 4 ½”

Sew together as shown

This is how I put my quilt together
Machine pieced and will be quilted?????

My corners

Happy Spring




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Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Sewing Room Clean Out !

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It took me time, my heart and lots of pictures. My sewing room is getting cleaned up and OUT ! 
Post from a few weeks ago


This is how my sewing room started, I had the buffet for years and it's the perfect height for cutting fabric. Husband built the shelving around it for me. 


The just about there


The THERE 



My buffet was a huge conversation on Facebook, the other day when I posted it's picture. I put it on Craigslist and it sold in 1 day ! It was VERY cold here as it was loaded up, but the lady who purchased it was thrilled and me....I'm alright with it. 

AND NEXT

They say, "If it doesn't kill you, it makes you stronger"
Here I go !

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Wednesday, February 27, 2013

My Chair Quilt

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Here's the quilt that is on the back of my Chair at my computer now

I took a border class I think when we lived in Windom, MN, YEARS ago.
It measures about 14" x 20"


Each block is 5" x 5"


Machine Pieced


And I hand quilted



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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

A Process of Time and Cleaning OUT my Sewing Room

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Cleaning up and OUT of my sewing room this past week has brought up a lot of feelings, ideas and emotions.
When you first start to quilt you discover 
there is a 3 step process.
The beginning: The idea, the pattern, the fabric.
The middle: The cutting, the piecing, the quilt top finished
The end: The quilting, by hand/machine and the binding

And that with each step the process 
will become complete.

But, going through my fabric closet, cleaning out paperwork, notebooks and idea sheets, I noticed I’ll never be done. And, is that alright with me? 
Am I able to let it be alright?

After a week of thinking, I don’t think it’s the things, the buffet, the sewing machine, I think it’s the ideas. The patterns which have been drawn and will never be made, that pull at my heart.   With the fix it mentality I have, these patterns may not get made but may be given? I’m still trying to work that process out in my head?  

But, what I have learned, it has to be alright. We have chosen these next steps, not made to make them. I’ll be alright and that my new 3 step process is:

The beginning: Open to all ideas
The middle: Jump in and do
The end: Enjoy the process, my new 3 steps

And, what ever happens,


Laugh, smile and be happy 





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Thursday, January 31, 2013

Diet Pizza Recipe

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Last year my football post was all about 
PIZZA on the Grill and this year....
It's diet pizza.... What a difference
 a year makes????
HERE's the Grilled Pizza post too !

Below is "All About ME" update 

Diet Pizza This is a REALLY good one 
and easy to make, I had to find something, because I was missing pizza so much.


Diet pizza Recipe


The SECRET is Corn Tortillas(one shell 100 calories)
Diet pizza Recipe

Place the Tortillas under the broiler and they will get a bit crispy, some will bubble up, that's OK, pop the bubble and I like them just crisp NOT brown, turn and do the other side too. 
Diet pizza Recipe

Add what ever you like, I'm a bit of:
Pizza Sauce (just cover shell)
Spinach
Onions
Olives
Pepperoni
Skim-low fat Mozzarella cheese (1/4 cup 80 calories)
I added a pit more, I needed dairy this day

Diet pizza Recipe
Toppings on Husbands

Flour shells will work too (110 calories per shell)


Bake at 350 (F) for 10- 15 minutes
Cut and serve, One-two pizza's per person
I know the cheese, but......

I eat one pizza and green salad ! 
(pizza about 310 calories)
VERY GOOD

Calorie counts are from the packages/products that I used, 
check your ingredients for calorie numbers





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