It Worked!!!

I don't know what I did, but the problem I had with my photos seems to have miraculously fixed itself. I'm pretty excited to be able to write a post today after my little hiatus from the internet.

Before I moved, my summer was pretty lazy and relaxed. Now that we live near family again, I am finding that summer is no longer as relaxing as it once was. Every weekend has been filled with parties, guests, and BBQ's. Not that I am complaining. It has been great. But it hasn't left much time for me to keep up with everything else! I have spent most of my free time sewing in order to keep up with the farmers market. Wanna see?!?! Yes, I thought you might.

Here's my Washi Tape Kindle Fire sleeve. And I just heard this fabric line has been retired! I love it so much and I'm so glad I was able to get some recently. I'll definitely be using it selectively until it's gone.

And a Nook Tablet sleeve. I made this one for a custom order, but my customer never came to get it. From now on I think I'll be asking for at least a partial payment in advance.

I have been loving making these key fobs! I rarely throw scraps away and I have been able to really start using up some of them!

I've been making a ton of zipper bags too.

And some super cute cross body bags!

Lots and lots of market bags

And a couple of pretty awesome pincushions =)

In between all of this sewing we have been camping, boating, and having birthday parties. I also worked on a secret project reviewing a pattern for Two Peas in a Pod Designs and I'll be having a giveaway in a couple of weeks! Yay!!!



Making

This post will be a bit picture heavy, as I have been sewing quite a bit, but not blogging. I'll just show you what I've been working on with a little caption under each photo. Deal?

This is a mini quilt I made for Lizze for Christmas. I used Parisville fabric in a Dresden plate pattern.

A Kindle cover I made for the shop, but I fell in love with it, so it's now mine.

Here's a few more Kindle covers. These ones actually will end up in the shop eventually.

And two custom Kindle covers I made for my friend Christine's mom. She chose these fabrics from what I had on hand.

This is the pincushion (plus a few extra goodies) I sent to my partner for a swap. I got mine in the mail a few days ago, along with another pincushion for a swap I did with Lizze. I'm saving those for their own post though. I'll show you soon!

I loved the cathedral window pinnie I made for my partner so I decided to make one for me.

I have wanted to knit socks for a long time. I found this gorgeous sock yarn at a local yarn shop here and couldn't resist.

Since I had never made socks before, I decided to try with a cheapy yarn for practice.

This is my sock progress so far. It's slow going because I have so much to do lately, but hopefully I'll have a pair to wear very soon.

Bee a {modern} Swapper

Against my better judgment, I signed up for a year long swap/bee. It looked like a ton of fun so I decided that even though I didn't really have time for it, I'd make time. The sign-ups are closed for this round, but you can always check out the photos and see when the next sign-ups will be HERE.

February is the first month and we are doing a pincushion swap. I have only ever made one pincushion and I hate it. I was so excited about this because I really, really need a new one. I wondered about what to do for my partner. That's the tricky part about swaps; you don't know your partners likes and dislikes very well. They try to tell you a few key things in an e-mail, but mostly you have to do a lot of stalking, ie: sift through their flickr favorites, their blog, their twitter account...

I was looking for online pincushion tutorials and I found this one on the My Go-Go Life blog. I have never made a cathedral window. Never even wanted to. I have always been intimidated by them, but really, it wasn't as difficult as I thought it would be.

I poked around through my scraps and found some Parisville by TulaPink in there (of course). My partners first favorite color listed was purple so this seemed perfect.

This is where I started. I was pretty pleased with myself at this point because I could see that I was actually doing it!

Here it is finished, before adding the stuffing. I wasn't really happy with it here. It just didn't look right. In the center where the points come together, only one point was correct. I didn't fold the white fabric correctly, I think. I was going to start a new one, but I figured I may as well finish it. So I stuffed it and added a button to the center.

The button completely covered the center and I love the way it looks now! I think this will be a good pinnie to swap, but I'll post it on Flickr to see what my partner thinks before I send it out.