How to Cover a Sleeve Ironing Board Tutorial

Go to my Craftsy patterns for this Free tutorial. You can make any size ironing board cover with my free tutorial.

My worn out old ironing board cover.

New cover for my sleeve ironing board. 

 

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Flannel Pajamas for my Grandson

Flannel pajama bottoms I made for my grandson. His birthday is in November, so he will be getting these then.

These flannel pajama bottoms are made with a Christmas print fabric. I am currently working on making the top to match these bottoms. My grandson will probably be getting these during the holiday season. Depends on how cold it gets whether I will give them to him early or not. I'll post the top to these when I finish them

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Quilt Pattern Mistakes in Instructions

Quilts in the Barn wrote a long posting about mistakes printed in her quilt pattern. A magazine printed the wrong cutting measurements and the posting she wrote is a good lesson to everyone who makes quilts. Always cut only for one block to test the pattern for accuracy! It's also a good idea to make one block to see how you like the colors/fabric that you chose too before cutting out all the pieces for an entire quilt.
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Pacific Northwest Meets the Southwest Quilt

My sister gave me 3 fabric prints a few years ago: the bear paw print, the totem pole print and the black bear print, which are native designs from the Pacific Northwest. Since I live in the Southwest, I decided to make 3 Navajo quilt blocks to represent the Southwest, while using the fabrics that she gave me to represent the Pacific Northwest. I added the tan, red and blue fabrics that I had as well. This quilt also reminds me of the many years that I lived in the Pacific Northwest too.

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Santa Fe Indian Market

Kateri Tekakwitha is the first Indian of North America to be promoted to a Saint.

In my posting yesterday I told you that hubby and I went to Santa Fe for our anniversary and to the annual Indian Market there. Well we get there and the market didn't start until today! Am I getting senile? I could have sworn I read it was Friday-Sunday, but it turns out it is Saturday-Sunday. Oh well! We did go back today (luckily it's about a 45 minute drive and not several hours away). I took lots of photos of things in the plaza area, the cathedral, statues, shops, etc. If you are interested in having a look you can go here to see the photos I took.
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Knit & Felted Purse

Today is hubby and my 32nd wedding anniversary. We are spending the day in Santa Fe at the annual outdoor Indian Market. So many beautiful works of art to see there. It's a great place to get inspired for doing future art projects. Then we will eat out at a restaurant for lunch. I'll have to tell you which restaurant later, as there are 3 we are still deciding on. Meanwhile, here is my latest finished project for  you to see.   

This is the bag and i-cord handles I knit before I felted them.

Here is the purse after I felted it. I added a stacked button and a pony tail elastic for the closure.

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House Quilt

I started this one a couple of years ago. I was planning on adding large blue triangles around the house so it would be set on point. Then I wanted to add pieced log cabin triangles in the 4 corners of the blue triangles so it would be a square again. Well that just wasn't working for me as things weren't lining up right. So I set this aside for a long time and finally finished it the way you see it here. I used a flexible ruler to draw a free-form scalloped edge.

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