Craft Apron

I finished my craft apron! Yeah!

 While I am far from being an accomplished seamstress, I feel very good about how this turned out!  I tried to use a pattern but ran into some glitches that made me change things and just go with what I had.  For one thing, my fabric for my pocket ran length wise so it made a smaller pocket then I had planned.  Also I had originally planned to have a smaller inside pocket for business cards and I somehow sewed that on upside down! Thankfully I am best friends with the seam ripper!  This project might have come out better had I been able to find my pins to hold everything together. Guess I'm buying more at the store for next time!

BUT it is still super cute and it is FUNCTIONAL! It will hold money, cards, pens, and I'm sure my phone! 

I got my lovely fabric from the Stitch Lab.  If you have never been there, you should check it out!!

Send Some Love

I can tend to get focused on the negative.  One negative comment can bring me down and before I know it I'm only able to focus on the gray, dismal things around me.  But recently I have had some very sweet positive comments given to me in person and through twitter.  They made my day!!

It reminded me how important it is to spread positivity.  One positive comment is a like a big hug! Its spreading some love around!

I thought one way I could spread some love would be to share these cute crocheted hearts I made with my followers!  You guys have all been so supportive of me in my journey in crafting and I wanted to share some thanks with you.

Its easy to get one - just leave me a comment with someway to get in contact with you so I can get your mailing address! Pretty easy!

{we heart it}

I hope you are having a great day and have a great start to your weekend!!  Find a way to give a positive comment to at least one person and see where that takes you!

Putting Together Our Tree Cozy

The other night AJ, Sarah and I got together to piece together our very long tree cozy for the Knitted Wonderland Project.  

 

I had so much fun! It was great just getting to hang out with an old and new friend! I'm hoping we get to do this again!

I also knitted a scarf out of the same yarn colors for the volunteers.  

Here is my cute little girl modeling it before we turned it in.

 I just downloaded the iPhone app instagram and I LOVE the different settings!

I'm going to have so much fun with it as you can tell from my pictures!!!!!

Precious Little Gifts

I have been so excited about my little sister having her first baby! He is going to be born in April and I just can't wait to meet him!  My best friend had a son a few weeks ago and one of my grad school friends is having a little girl in April.  It must be baby season!

What better way to show your excitement then to make gifts!

I made these burp clothes for my sister and best friend.  While I still have a long way to go when it comes to sewing, I still think they came out super cute!

Then for my friend who is having a little girl I made this cute hat.  

I got the hat pattern from Ravelry and the flower is from Ravelry also.

Its so easy to make cute things for girls! I'll have to work some more on thinking of equally cute things for boys!

Happy Valentines day!!

I hope everyone is having a great Valentines day today!

I have been working on a few Valentines crafts over the last few weeks.

One has been for Strumpets Crumpets Valentine Swap

I will post pictures once I know my swapee has her prize!  I can't wait to see what I get! 

The other thing I worked on was a cute embroidery project I saw at One Artsy Mama

I made these two shirts for my cousin's 2 daughters.

I thought this was the perfect thing for them because our grandmother always signed her cards and letters XX OO.  I've noticed that my cousins have kept this up so why not make a special shirt to remind these girls of how awesome their great grandmother was.

I did discover that embroidering on T-shirt material is a little harder because it stretches all over the place so they didn't turn out as cute as One Artsy Mama but I still think they are cute for these little ones!

I'd love to see the crafts you put together for Valentines! I'm sure you did an amazing job!