Cards....

Cards that I made for people that are graduating this year.

From drab to fab...

What does one do with plain dish towels? Add a little fabric to make them look better!

Step 1: Buy dish towels
Step 2: Use cricut to cut out designs with decorative fabric
Step 3: Cut out fabric
Step 4: Sew fabric design onto dish towels



White dish cloth


Added fabric flowers


Yellow dish towel



Added fabric border


Different view of the yellow towel

Sewing is my relaxation...

I have had a little extra time since Spring Semester is dwindling down. So, I decided to do some more sewing projects. I have done a few receiving blankets and matching burp cloths. I had someone ask me if I was trying to tell people something, NO!!!! I am not announcing I'm expecting a baby, nor will I be any time soon. I am making these, because I enjoy doing it. I also give them away as gifts; I have had several friends/family members announce they are expecting. Since things are so expensive I have made things for them instead of buying. I often pull out my sewing machine when I have a lot weighing on my mind. It allows me to be alone with my thoughts. So, people are getting gifts and I am able to relax a little!

Here are my receiving blankets and matching burp cloths:


Receiving blanket with frog print--background is green stripe


Burp cloth front and back with frog print



Receiving blanket with duck print--background is yellow checkered



Burp cloth front and back with duck print


Burp cloth pink pig/flower with green stripe back


Burp cloth pink pig/flower with pink checkered back

Crafty bug...

Every once in awhile I get the crafty bug and need to work on a project! I really enjoy working on crafts and I find myself coming up with new ones everyday. One that I have been working for quite some time now is a patchwork baby quilt. I am teaching myself how to do it, so it is coming along very slowly. I posted about it before, but decided I should post pictures now for future reference! Pictures are not the best, because I took them with my phone.


I love the fabric I am using, it is really cute!


Another view of fabric. If you were in person you could see the design it is starting to create. I traced the design from a quilt my Great-Grandma Dodge made for my parent's wedding as inspiration.


Full quilt thus far! I only have a few runs left to do, but again slowly learning. I learn something new the further I go. I also still need to stitch it so it will lay flatter and not look so bunchy.

Another fun crafty thing I have fallen in love with is making cards! I made all of our Christmas cards this past year and here are a few others I have made:


I made this one for my Aunt Mutt! It was a simple card, I just took different papers and layered them and then embelished with stickers. The back was used for a little letter/note.


I made this one for my boss; he is moving to Califonia (thus the scuba guy). The group of people I work with and I wanted to do something nice before he left. A card was something on the list. Again, this was an easy card. I just layered paper and tied a ribbon around it. Then I layered the blue paper on top with the scuba guy I made with my Cricut.