Project 3 of 5 - Theft and Coveting

Step 1:  Go to Britex (SF) and let Lauren buy
fabric for a project she was making.
Step 2:  Steal aforementioned fabric.

Step 3:  Buy New Look pattern #6843 - Skirt B
There are just 4 pieces.  Four!

Step 4:  Buck up and sew.  I had to hand stitch
several areas but it was well worth it.  I use
another skirt to measure the hem. And, I tried
not to bleed on the fabric.

Step 5: Admire your handy work (ignoring that
I have on my running bra) and realize your shoes
don't go with the new skirt.

Step 6:  Find new shoes to go with skirt.  (Macy's)
OH, PLEASE!?!

Art Class : 3 x 5

Today brings to fruition the wish of a friend. Someone asked me to make a pallet art sign for their little boy... Okay, I wanted to make the sign and coerced them to pay me for it :D. So, the way my mind works is, "If I'm already doing one, wouldn't it be just as easy to do five?"
So, today you get a 5 x 3 x 5.

The Moose - Wood burned into a 11 x 14-ish sign

Elephante' - I just liked this one.

Old School Motor Bike

Shark Week! - This is about 3.5' long x 2' tall

And no Hanna project would be complete without a MAP! - This is about 3.' long x 2.5' tall

Keira's 5x5: Day Three

Charm

 So while I was in Seattle this month, I went to church with Deb and sat in on quite a bit of a great lesson. (It was because of Maren that I missed the rest.) Anyway, the topic of the lesson was rather pedestrian (visiting teaching) but the instructor started things off by playing 4 pics 1 word.  The app presents you with four pictures that relate to one another and you're supposed to guess the word. 

Anyway, now that my new calling is Teaching For Our Times, I'm always on the prowl for fun ways to introduce topics.  My project today was to find pictures to introduce my topic (Peace at Home) along with this quote, " (A Christ centered home)...need(s) to have a place of refuge where peace and serenity prevail, a place where we can reset, regroup, and reenergize to prepare for future pressures..  Here they are:

I think it would also be fun, once we've guessed the word 'Home', to present images of what the unpretty side of home can (cough*last night*cough) look like:

Debbie's 5x5 #3

I bought this awesome bench a couple of weeks ago (when Keira was here).  Cost me $8.00 at DI.

I think we can all agree that it was a hideous color. Light Mauve (or Early Decomposition, as I like to call it).  The color had to go.

I ended up painting it "Coastal Beige" (Behr).  The dark gray stripes (Thank you Suzanne for the idea) came from some leftover paint that I already had ("Antique Tin" - again, Behr(from The Empire Strikes Bath)).

Let's pose it in front of some flowers. Oops - forgot about the tent in the background.

Kylene's 5x5: Day 2

I made a design board for my sewing room. I got some soundproofing board and covered it with a thin layer of batting, stapled some fabric paying careful attention to the corners, nailed it into the studs and we are in business.

Suzanne's 5x5 Day 2

Yup, it's been one of those days.  Busy doing lots and not much to show for it.  Good news, I took a picture of my small, yet monumental, project of the day.

Missing Moulding

Replaced!

I have many of these..."almost" done projects that just need a special tool, or the right color paint, or time to get done.  I'm sure that once school starts, I'll magically get all of these done, right?!

Debbie 5x5 #2 Composition Notebook Cover

While I'm waiting for paint to dry, I thought I would post this little project.  It's a perfect little back to school project that any beginner could whip up. (here's a link to a tutorial that I sorta kinda followed).

Step 1: draft a pattern.  This is not hard AT ALL.  Simply take 3 sheets of 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper and tape them together on the long edges.  Trim 1/2 inch off of one long edge to give you one large 11 x 25 inch pattern piece (that is my green paper).  Do this again (yellow paper).  After trimming the 1/2 inch off of one edge, fold your pattern in half and design your pocket.  The 'wings' on mine are about 4 1/2 inches tall by about 4 1/3 inches long.  The top flat bit is about an inch wide.  After marking those off, I just connected the dots with a long diagonal line.

Step 2: Cut two of the rectangle and two of the pocket.
Step 3:With right sides together, sew along the top edges of the pocket, leaving the top bit open.  Clip the corner where the diagonal meets the straight bit, turn and press.  Top stitch over seam.  At this point I then top stitched a line right down the middle and down what will become the fold line.

get it?

Step 4: Now that the pocket is done, sandwich it in between the  rectangle pieces.  The rectangle pieces should have their right sides facing each other.  Stitch around the outside, leaving about a 4 inch opening at the top.  Clip corners and turn right side out. Press.
Step 5: Using your top stitching lines as a guide, stitch over them, through all layers.  At this point you can add more top stitched lines for pencils and pens if you want to.  I added a line approximately one inch over from the fold line.
Step 6: Fold under the seams where you left the opening.  Press well.  You're going to be top stitching the top and bottom - it's now time to fold the ends (the part with the wings) to the inside.  Pin in place, then stitch about 1/4 inch from the top and again at the bottom.

 I actually ended up lining my rectangle piece with a bit of muslin because the yellow fabric was a little see-through.