Gettin' Fall Crafty!

I guess the leaves changing colors and starting to fall, put me in the mood to do some Fall projects. I love all the colors of Fall. The browns, greens and orange. I made the above wall hanging in a day and a half. I found this super cute fabric on Ebay! It's from Moda Fabric and it's the Gobble Gobble line. I only had one charm pack to work with so I came up with this. I still have a few scraps left over and my mind is already thinking..... I found the pictures in my kids coloring books and I googled Fall clip on the internet and the writing is my own. I had fun with this one! (after I took the picture I noticed how crooked it is--- I fixed it! )

Next:

I saw these wood pumpkins on the Ucreate blog. I thought they were super cute and the best part---- it was all FREEEEEE!!
I went out to the scrap pile that we have on the side of the house and found some wood. I marked it with lines to have my hubby cut them for me.... Two weeks later.... I took matters into my own hands and got the circular saw out and did it myself. Paint, a branch from the dead tree out front and some green plaid fabric! I'm thinking it needs something like raffia, but I keep forgetting to buy it whenever I'm out.

Now it's back to my quilt that I'm doing with the quilt along, just need to do the sashing, back, quilt and binding.....maybe after Christmas it will be done! :)

First Quilt Along!

I decided to do a quilt along with a blog that I read.(crazy mom quilts) My first quilt along and so far so good. All I had to do for 72 days was make one nine patch everyday. Of course, life gets in the way so most times I did 5 at a time or whatever. But, I'm done and here's my 72 nine patch squares. I finished before the quilt along is done so I'm waiting for the next step. I'm so excited because I love the completed quilt! All of these squares are made of my scraps. It felt good to be using what I had but also feels like I didn't make much of a dent.

I will keep you posted on the next steps and will show the finished project. Crazy that almost 72 days have gone by....

Placemat Purses

I used to make my placemat purse like the one above, with the ribbon wrapped all the way around. Very cute and very simple. Then I made one like this:

and decided I like this one much better! How cute is that?

They are easy and hardly take any time. These two placemats are really thick and had a bit of a stiffness to them. But they worked out. I still need to find something to go on the pink one, I was just using stuff that I already had. Who said placemats are just to eat on?