Woodland Baby Favors

This past week my sister gave me a challenge...unique woodland-themed baby shower favors for less than $5 a piece.  Hmmmm....  I had a lot of fun brainstorming some ideas and these were the ones that made it to the try-it-out-and-see round.  Now, my sister just has to pick one!

First up, a felt squirrel pin in the colors of the shower....green, blue, and brown.

Along a similar line, I tried my hand at a needle felted acorn with an attached pin back.

Jessica carved this adorable rubber block stamp for us to use to decorate the next two ideas.

This mini brown bag would be perfect for giving out little bags of trail mix!

This is another option I thought of for distributing some take-home goodies.  A mini flower pot holding a fake topiary (made out of a pom-pom using some of that crazy style novelty yarn) and some woodland inspired treats.

So, now my sister must decide....we'll wait and see what she chooses!


Have you been in charge of baby or bridal shower favors?  What did you design?

Fabulous Fabric Shopping!

I love shoppng for fabric!  Who doesn't?!?!?  And as hard as it is to deny the great deals at large fabric stores, there is nothing like walking into an intimate quilt shop where everyone is more than happy to discuss your current project and help you with your selection.  My selection was wide-ranging, from girly-girl pink printed birds, to stark white, red, and black printed spoons and forks.  But I love them all.

I was buying fabric to make a lunch bag for myself and some reusable sandwich wraps and snack bags for some friends (which is why there is such a variety).

Another picture of my fabulous fabrics from Sew Inspired Quilt Shop in Simsbury, Connecticut.

Of course, when I got home, first things first...pre-wash and iron!  I always like the way that my thread catcher looks after I cut all the loose threads as I iron.

SO COLORFUL!!!!!!


Where is your favorite place to go when you really want to have fun buying fabric?

There once was a napkin...

When I got married back in October, my spouse and I decided to do a lot of the wedding DIY...(which you will see pieces of throughout the life of this blog)...including the napkins.  Since we were only using them once, we did not hem the napkins, just washed the fabric and cut them with pinking shears.  Now, we have these random squares of green and orange fabric.  Today, two of those napkins turned into something else.

The first thing on the agenda was to make this awesome Rummikub bag. Now we won't have to pass the big box around when it is time to draw tiles, we can just pass this cute little orange bag!

I still had a little bit of orange left, so I combined it with some green and made a simple ruched flower pin.  I started out with a strip of fabric and sewed a zig-zag line to create the basis of the ruched flower.

After pulling the thread tightly to create the ruched line...

I sewed the strip into a circle making one layer of the flower.

I repeated the steps with a strip of green.  Then created a green yo-yo for the center and finished it all off with a now un-smelly button! 

It isn't perfect, but it's cute. 


In what kind of creative ways have you reused bits of fabric?