Today I have a fun pillow wrap with a full pattern for you! You might just want to run out a purchase the supplies so that you can make one of these this weekend! They are so easy and so cute.
By making a simple pillow cover and different wraps, you will be able to change the look of ONE pillow for any season of the year. 
I was invited to a Blogger Mixer & Networking Event at Ikea. It was so much fun to make some new blogging friends and to be able preview some of the new displays at Ikea and get a sneak peek at their new catalog! They fed us breakfast and then they sent on on a shopping spree! It doesn’t get any better than that! Thank you Celeste and Ikea and Tauni at SNAP for putting this great event together!
I have some old pillows that I use outside on my patio and they were getting pretty hammered, so I decided that I would just make some new slipcovers to put over them. They were sooo easy to make and yet made such a difference that I wondered why I had waited so long to do them.
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I made this turquoise maxi dress from this tutorial. It takes 30 minutes to make this dress…really! I changed my dress up a bit from the tutorial, in that I took the sides in under the arms to make it more fitted and I turned the edges in on the neck, sleeves and hem. You could leave all these edges raw because they will not fray, but I like the finished edges better. (I am just weird that way!)
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My sister brought this over to me a few days ago and I thought that it was so cute that I wanted to pass it on to you! Many of us are always looking for a little gift to say thank you or “I am thinking about you” and this gift is just perfect! This would also work for a teacher appreciation gift for any teacher!
When I was a little girl, only 4-5 years old my mother took me to a yarn shop called Hiendselman’s, in Provo, Utah. They taught me how to knit! It seems hard to believe now, but I can still remember the lady telling me “In – around – and through” and I remember even at that early age how I loved all the colors and textures of the yarns that were in slots on the wall! So I guess that I have my mother to blame for all my craft making. Even though she is no longer here, she started it! Thanks mom!:)
It seems like every winter that I get the urge to start knitting these dishcloths. They are the most wonderful things because they are made with all cotton yarn and they absorb the water when you are wiping your kitchen counters. They are also a nice big size for washing dishes! I have made so many different colors and styles, but this is the pattern that I always come back to. I use the Sugar and Cream yarn and I can get two dishcloths out of one skein. Although the with new “twist” Peaches and Cream yarn, I could only get 3 dishcloths out of 2 skeins of yarn, even though they are the same yardage and weight, it is a finer yarn. (They are the red and green ones.)
I think that I am like some of you in the fact that I love purses and I love ruffles. So when I saw this pattern last spring to make this purse I just knew that I had to have it! This has been one of those projects that I was excited to do, but finding the time was a bit difficult because life just got in the way. I didn’t really need it for anything other than the fact that I just wanted it! So it kind of got put on the back burner, but now that it is done I am thrilled that I finally finished this project and I love the way that it turned out!
It does not have really long straps, which I like, because I can just tuck it up under my arm.
It is a big, spacious bag, 15 1/5″ wide x 12″ tall. It has two pockets in it, which I made into 3 pockets. and it is so roomy inside. I love the black polka dot lining. I guess I should have used pink polka dots :) :)
This is the pattern: It came from Izzy &Ivy and it is called Petunia! The instructions and the pattern were great and pretty easy to follow. However, this is probably not a project for a beginning seamstress.
Now that I have made one, I may just have to make another bag in the spring!
Or maybe not.
