Hexagon quilt...

I have always, always, always wanted to make a hexagon quilt. I think they are so beautiful! The epitome of a vintage quilt to me...

However, I never thought that I would actually ever get around to making one. It's all the hand stitching... I just don't think that I'm cut out for it. But now my dreams of making a hexagon quilt can become a reality and I'm thrilled! I found a wonderful little online tutorial from Lady Harvatine on how to make a machine sewn hexagon quilt.

So yes, I'm excited! I'm thinking of doing a yellow and white one, sporadic, no flower patterns or anything like that... something to fold up and put on the foot of our guest bed. I'll let you now how it goes!

photo from Flickr...

Ties...

Back in the day I used to dream about having a little girl... I would dream of all the cute little dresses I would sew for her to wear to church. With little matching bumpers. She would be such a darling little girl with all her homemade frills...

Well, I have a boy. Maybe someday I will have a girl, but I have a darling little boy that I love beyond belief. But honestly, I have not done my part in dressing up the little boy for church. He's just sort of worn whatever hand me downs we had. I just have never had the same desire to deck out the little guy for church.

Until now... I'm repenting.

I love this little tie pattern from Make It and Love It. I had to cut down a few trees to print it out (40 pages!!!) but it really is such a great detailed pattern. I loved picking out the different fabrics and colors for the ties. So cute! I've decided that sewing for a little boy isn't that bad. It's just different than what I had pictured. But no worries, I've already picked up a little suit pattern... maybe for Christmas? He's going to be such a stud at church...

New knitting projects...

I've got Easter on my mind for some reason...

I know that it's a ways away... but some things take time to get done right?

Like knitting, takes a lot of time (which is why I want to learn how to crochet...) But here are some adorable patterns that might find their way to my needles soon...

How cute is this little vest! I'm in love with it! I think that little man would look adorable in this!

And for my son who is obsessed with elephants...

Seriously! Too cute for words! This would be adorable sitting in a little Easter basket now wouldn't it?

Both projects were found at Never Not Knitting...

My bedroom...

... is boring... period! I was going to do a before shot today but my camera wont even turn on... I think that it died. Lucky you!



I have never in the seven years that I've been married tried to decorate my bedroom... okay, that's a small lie. Last year my husband tried to help me decorate our bedroom and pressured me into buying this silver bedspread... which didn't help the problem. Then we painted the wall behind the bed a dark purple that was short lived because it just looked like mud brown... sigh... it's been struggling for a while now but I think that I finally have my ideas in line enough to make something of this room. That's one of my goals for this year is to make this room beautiful!



So here are the rough plans...





1- I've always wanted to make an upholstered headboard... and I keep going between a dark brown or a white one... but I think that brown is going to win out.

2- I love white bedding. I'm nervous about this one because I have a wild and sticky fingered little two year old... but there is always bleach right? This is one from West Elm that is just beautiful.

3- We need a new quilt for under the duvet as well.... and I really love this pattern called Stacking the Odds from Denyse Schmidt.

4- I love these knit throw pillows from West Elm. However, I think that I'm going to knit my own for our bed (besides, I saved this picture a million years ago and I don't think that they carry them anymore anyway...)

5- We had some amazing family pictures taken in September and I love them. Just the colors that I want to put in the room too... aqua, white, touches of yellow. And look at my little man... what a doll he is! I can't wait to put this one up on the wall!

6- We really need some more clothing storage in our room. I saw this Ikea Hack that Little Green Notebook blogged about. So nicely done! I think those would look great as night stands in our room.

7- Just tying in more of the pretty colors from the Hope Valley fabric line from Denyse Schmidt. More blues, aqua and yellow please!

8- Also some pretty artwork from Urban Design would look great on the walls...



So there are the plans... I can't wait for it to all come together!

Fabric Matching Game...

Finally, my sis opened her present from Christmas!!! Here is a fun matching game that I made for her family...

I was going to print off the pictures and modge podge them onto wooden tiles... but then I saw this fabric matching game over on No Big Dill (instructions are on her blog) and knew that I would have more fun with this. I'm more of a sewing girl than a modge podge girl after all...

I wasn't a huge fan of the iron on transfer paper that I used. Other than that I love the way that it turned out!

This is a baseball loving family so I used Alexander Henry's baseball fabric. A smaller print might have been better (or is it just me that would want to cheat and memorize the patterns on the back...)

Chairs...

Twas two nights before Christmas and we were completely done Christmas shopping!!! So we decided to have a little fun... eat some pizza and egg nog (because we're healthy like that)... and recover our dinning room chairs!

Before...

We bought our dinning room set a year and a half ago on Craigslist and the chair seats were white. We knew that they didn't have a chance of staying white in our house, and I've been meaning to recover them ever since... but I just kept putting it off.

So we went and got some pretty green/brown/cream/gray fabric to go on top. And I have to say, this $12 staple gun from Home Depot may be the best $12 I've ever spent on anything...

We just cut out the fabric, pulled it tight, I made husband fold under the raw edges because I wanted it to look nice (even though nobody will ever see the bottom of the chair...) and stapled away!

After...

We even went the extra mile and covered them in vinyl too... just so that we wont have to do it again anytime soon! I love them! They look so much better! Now to finish the rest of the room to match the chairs...

Christmas revealed...

I made some of the gifts that I gave out this year... so here are a few now that they've been opened.

My sister and brother in law are big BYU fans.... I mean big! So I knit their family of five hats in the BYU colors. I think that they turned out pretty cute.

I found this great purse pattern over at Made by Rae. So I made these two purses for my two younger sisters and then filled them up will all kinds of goodies that they would like (guitar picks, earrings, Burt's Bees....)

Both sisters are so different, it was fun to make a purse that would fit their personalities.

I have one more present that I made but it hasn't been opened yet... so I'll share that one later!

Birthday Banner...

Birthday season is now done at my house... we all have Fall birthday's around here. This year I decided to make a little birthday banner that we could use for every one's birthday and for years to come. I made it out of scrap material, black felt, and black biased tape. I think that it turned out pretty cute.

I still need to wash it so that the edges fray a little, but I think that it will be a fun thing to have around for the birthday's.

Wooden clock...

I love this clock! I've spent the last few days trying to figure out how to transform my boring wall clock into something pretty like this... maybe a little different design but the same idea of it being out of wood with a clock painting around it. So simple and pretty...

Image first seen here.

Finished mirror...

Ahhh... I've been enjoying my new mirror all week! My hubby did a great job!

We couldn't find any little wooden caps for the "wooden nail" look so we ended up sanding down the edges of a wooden dowel and cutting off the little knobs and gluing them into the holes. That's love people!

Now to figure out how to refinish the fireplace!!! Tile it? Put molding around it? Not sure yet...

Mirror...

Husband is building me a mirror. Here's the story. A few weeks ago we painted our guest bathroom. There was this big ole' mirror on the wall that we took down and we put up a smaller framed mirror in it's place. So then we were left with this huge mirror sitting around for a few days. Husband decided to make me a mirror to go over our fireplace with it.





So we bought a glass cutter (just a little cheap tool that scores the glass so you can break it) and cut down the mirror to the appropriate size and husband built the frame with some wood we bought at Home Depot.





Here was our mirror inspiration from Pottery Barn...

This mirror retails for about $500... ours will be cashing in at around $30!!! That's awesome!

Ours has a thicker frame and is not quiet so rustic. We used new wood instead of refurbished wood but it still has that rustic feel which I love. I'm so excited... the stain is drying on it right now so I'll post up a picture when it's done!!!

I love a handy husband...