Quilt Challenge #2

For our second quilt challenge, Mom Wenzel challenged us way outside our comfort zone with creating a 'Mojo Doll' rather than a pieced quilt. Here are the results.

The specifics of the challenge:

• Create your own Mojo Doll - a personal good luck charm
• I found this in Quilter's Home Magazine; they are having a contest and I thought it would be fun
• Cut out the pattern and start slapping it together. Include items or ideas of what is important to you; wishes, dreams, etc. Just have fun and make it your own.
• If you choose, add a few comments of what and why.

Mom Wenzel's Mojo Doll
'My Mojo is about me: wrinkles, pearls, obsessed with ribbons (hair), love for my family (heart), love to stitch (thimble earrings), and check out the bling!

My wishes: thin waist and big hair
On my 'cape of hopes': to keep making quilts, remain mobile, get better at computer skills and become an art quilter.'

Heather's Mojo Doll
For mine, I wanted to incorporate all the fabrics that I love the most, plus give her big fat braided hair, which I have always wanted.






Mom Ueckert's Mojo Doll
[still to come...]

Mouse Mitten

Whenever I work from home I set up the laptop
on the countertop at the bar. Unfortunately the
Silestone is VERY COLD and after about
10 minutes I can't get warm.

So I made myself a mouse mitten to keep
my wrist, palm and fingers warm.

Quilt Challenge #1

My Moms and I created a quilt challenge for ourselves at the beginning of the year, and here are the results.

The specifics of the challenge:

• Curvy Rail Fence Block (here's a link with directions for sewing curves)

• Batiks + Solids (+ whatever, if you want to add something else)
  
• Final size is ‘baby quilt size’

Mom Ueckert's final quilt:

Mom Wenzel's final quilt:

My final quilt:

Baby Quilt for Roberta

It's a Girl!
Due 3/17/10

My felted sweater project

When I was home over the holidays, my Mom & I went on a wool sweater hunt at some local thrift stores, and felted (fulled) what we found. I was determined to create a new sweater out of whatever I found, and I came up with this. Sewing the felted pieces together was much easier than I feared- adding the non-stretchy trim was not quite as easy.

Scent Holder Ornament

Directions for a crocheted ornament designed to hold a

'Scentportable' fragrance refill from Bath & Body Works:

Materials Needed:

• Size 10 Crochet Thread
• Size B/1-2.25mm crochet hook
• 3.5" x 6.5" piece of cotton fabric to match crochet thread
• Pinking shears
• sewing needle with eye large enough for crochet thread
  

Directions:

• Create backing for ornament: Trace (2) 3" circles on the cotton fabric, cut out. Pin together with right sides facing. Sew an exact 1/4" seam around circle, leaving a 1" opening. Using pinking shears, cut just outside stitch line. Turn inside out and press, tucking raw edges into opening. Stitch opening closed.
  
• Crochet front of ornament: ch 7; join with a sl st to form a ring.
• Round 1: ch 1, sc in ring, ch 7, work picot (sl st in 4th ch from hook), * ch 3, sc in ring, ch 7, work picot; repeat from * 3 more times, dc in 1st sc to form last ch-3 sp: 10 ch-3 sps.
• Round 2: ch 1, sc in same sp, ch 5, sc in next ch-3 sp, * ch 5, skip next picot, sc in next ch-3 sp, ch 5, sc in next ch-3 sp; repeat from * around to last picot, ch 2, skip last picot, dc in 1st sc to form last ch-5 sp: 10 ch-5 sps.
• Round 3: * ch 3, 3 dc in next ch-5 sp, ch 3, sc in next ch-5 sp; repeat from * 3 more times, ch 3, 3 dc in next ch-5 sp, ch 3, sl st in 1st sc: 10 ch-3 sps.
• Round 4: ch 3, * 4 dc in ch-3 sp, [dc in dc] 3 times, 4 dc in next ch-3 sp, dc in sc; repeat from * 3 more times, 4 dc in ch-3 sp, [dc in dc] 3 times, 4 dc in next ch-3 sp, sl st to top of 1st ch 3. Cut a 3-yd tail of crochet thread, pull through lp on hook to finish round.
• Using crochet thread tail, thread needle and whipstitch crocheted front of ornament to fabric backing about 1/3 around circle (19 sts). Tie a small knot and remove sewing needle. With crochet hook, pull a loop onto needle. Ch 15, pull thread through lp to create a knot. Make a large enough loop to hang ornament on tree and tie an overhand knot. Pull another loop onto crochet hook, ch 15, sl st to crocheted circle approximately another 1/3 around the circle. Pull thread through lp to create a knot. Thread sewing needle again and whipstitch the remaining 1/3 of the circle. Tie knot and finish off.
• Slide fragrance refill into ornament.
  

Rounds 1-2 of crochet pattern from 'Web of Wonder' doily pattern in 'Dainty Little Doilies' from Leisure Arts Little Books.

Christmas Stockings

A little slow to get this post up...
No fireplace, so the stockings go at the top of the spiral staircase.

Pattern inspired by Denyse Schmidt's 'Drunk Love in a Log Cabin'