I Love Sewing!
If you’re anything like me, you find lots of kitchen crafty projects but never actually do them. I finally had time to do a couple of mine!
Any time that I have to stay home with gck-1 because she’s sick, I take the opportunity to play “stay at home mommy” and try and sew as many things as I can. Well, as many small projects. After all, I only get one day to get it done! After that, who knows when I’ll have time to finish it! We stayed home together yesterday and I let my crafty self get busy!
I found these tutorials a little while ago and couldn’t resist making them.
Knittie Bitties provided a tutorial for my first project, which is the “dish towel a day” project. Love these!
And for my second project, the “triple border dish towels” project, I used a tutorial I found over at Sew 4 Home. The dish towels that I bought only came in a set of 2, not 3, but that’s fine. And thankfully I looked at the measurements of the towels I bought before I started cutting my fabric! My towels were smaller than the ones in the tutorial.
I used some of the leftover fabric from the dish towels to add new life to my old dying mouse pad. I forgot to take a before picture but that’s ok. Just use your imagination and picture some fabric in light gray with some pink flowers, black vines and a couple orange leaves here and there. Then add some horrible fraying to all sides which has also curled up along all the sides as well, some violent blue crayon streaks and marks in 3 spots, and some bubbles underneath the fabric and that’s what mine looked like. I have a feeling my mouse will become much more efficient now :)
Next on my crafty list,
A super cute ruffle pillow (tutorial from Floral Showers here) and some much needed coasters. (tutorial from The Sometimes Crafter here)
I love looking through the Sew 4 Home site. So many interesting ideas. I’ve yet to make anything from there, though.
How did you attach the fabric to the mousepad? And did you have to completely remove the other fabric first? ‘Cause my mousepad isn’t frayed or anything like that, I’d just like it to be prettier and I’m not sure if I can remove the original fabric without damaging the foam pad underneath.
Hope the girlie gets better soon!
My old mousepad had a design on it so I covered it with spray adhesive and then pressed my fabric on top. That worked horribly! I had bubbles from the beginning and the spray adhesive was too thick in some areas so it soaked through the fabric causing a sticky spot on the mousepad… Not fun! And I didn’t use and fray check so that’s why it frayed bad too!
This time I took the new fabric, applied heat n’ bond to it, and then ironed it on top of the mousepad. I made sure that I really worked the corners good so there were no areas where it was loose. Then I applied a little fray check all around the outside and ta-da! A nice smooth mousepad!
Very cute! Have a happy 4th of July weekend:)
I love sewing too! Love little sewing projects like these to fill those small chunks of time in between life and bigger projects.
I really want to learn how to sew. It’s on my to-do list of craft things.