New Nests in the Shop…

I finally got around to photographing my new nests for the shop…

They are now listed…

You can go to my shop WoolenWondersByEllen to see them!

Hope you are having a great weekend!

Another Bandanna Quilt

Love the colors in this bandanna quilt. I have made several of these before, the first one was 25+ years ago and we carried it everywhere, to the state fair, to picnics, fireworks.

This is a gift for someone special.

Milo has to get in on all the action too!  I spread the quilt out nicely and here he came.

The bright blue and the chocolate brown look great together. 

I backed it with a bright blue gingham (from Goodwill $1) and a row of left over bandanas.

Aunt Marge quilted it for me and did a great job…

I bound it with a chocolate polka dot fabric which looks so cute!

Love the quilting design too!!

I might be linking up to some of these great parties!

Baby’s First Birthday Banner

Baby Brady turns one this month…

One of my gifts to him is a banner to use at his birthday party and then his room!  So fun!

I found a font on the computer that was “chunky” and therefore easier to cut and sew.  I enlarged the letters until they were about 5 inches tall.

Is he not the cutest baby ever??

It turned out so cool. I backed the fabric with iron on interfacing and so there are two layers of fabric and of interfacing thick.

I have just sewed around the edges, trying to keep the seams straight.

I used bias tape to make the “ribbon” to hold it together.

Each end has half ovals…it was so much fun choosing fabrics to go together.

I’m loving how it turned out!

Dogs, bikes and robots, together with a lot of polka dots and chevron, I found great patterns.

Looks super cute hanging on the wall!

Happy birthday big boy Brady!

I might be linking to some of these great parties!

Super Star Number 137!

I have been featured at Cut Out and Keep!  I have 7 paper projects that I have submitted and the site will be featuring a new project every day!  Go check it out here!

I completed  a “facts about me” interview and provided tutorials for my seven projects and they did the rest!  I’m curious to see if this will affect my stats. 

Fabric Organizer Basket

I saw that Jenn over at A Jennuine Life had made one of these for a package pal exchange.  I loved hers and so went over to Noodlehead and bought that pattern. 

Jenn is a much more professional seamstress than me, not that I am not proud of my finished product…what’s that you say?  It looks like the center divider is crooked, NO, that can’t be!!  Note to self—use matching thread instead of contrasting thread…that way when you stitch all willy-nilly it won’t be as obvious!

I used scraps I had at home…the pattern was fairly easy to use.  It comes with full sized pattern pieces that you just cut out and tape together, so there is no enlarging and all that stuff. 

The basket is a nice size, holds enough but isn’t too large!  I am going to use it to hold yarn and crochet hooks and such.

I might be linking up to these great parties…

Making wool dog toys

OK, so the last two dogs we have had loved my wool scraps….maybe the wool tastes like sheep??  I catch Milo chewing on wool scraps as I am sewing or crafting.  He will sneak them away from my wool pile or stash and I find the pieces all wet/chewed all over the house.  So naturally I began making some toys for Milo to play with. 

Here’s the sweet little sleepy pugster all wrapped up in a quilt.

I made two of the owl (or cat shape as my son called them) and one that was just rectangular.  I sewed them up securely so they couldn’t be torn up by someone’s sharp little teeth. 

The purple owl was made from a knitted scarf in a nubby texture so I thought Milo would get into it.

The blue rectangular toy was a sleeve that I sewed both ends on after putting a noisemaker inside.  All three of the toys had very little stuffing, I used just a single layer of all cotton batting as the stuffing.

I was very proud of them and thought they were so cute.

Milo was helping me take pictures of course, he kept going for the purple owl.

And when the shoot was over I found the purple owl halfway up the driveway.  By the second day he had gained access to the batting inside the striped owl and had demolished it.  By the third day the noisemaker had been removed from the rectangular toy and the batting mysteriously disappeared.

But the purple owl survived, I kept putting it back into his toy box and he kept pulling it out.  I even took it upstairs with me while I sewed and Milo would play with it.

However, now this is all that remains…sometime over the past few days he ate a hole in the front and pulled out the batting…he still carries it around though!

No more homemade toys for you Mr. Milo…we’ll just stick with the cheapo chew toys from Wal-Mart!

I may be linking up to some of these great linky parties!