Creating and Dandelion Wishes!

Hi there!  I hope everyone is having a great spring!  I can't believe spring has sprung and we only had 9 inches of snow.  What an awful winter.  I mean when you can hang clothes on the line in February in Indiana there is a problem with the weather!  We have been mowing the yard for over a month. Ugh...  Now we have had a cool spell with the tempature in the 30's at night.  I'm so happy I haven't planted my garden and flowers.  I can't wait for it, though.  I mean if it's gonna be spring I might as well get excited about it!  In fact, I am learning to love dandelions with their brilliant yellow color and their simplicity!  They are wonderful!  My two new favorite things for this spring are swinging in the tree swing and making dandelion wishes!

On to what I have been making!  My niece's boyfriend's sister had a baby boy not long ago and they did his room in giraffes.  I used to make these for my friends years ago. Isn't he adorable?!! It's from a Country Stitches pattern, Two by Two by Brenda Gervais.  Love him!

I love this magazine!  Do you have it?  I was at a Kroger store in Greenville back in March.  The cashier said they had just put it out 4 days earlier and they only had one left!  Lucky me!

 I have had this line of fabric, Birchtree Lane from Connecting Threads for almost a year, and decided I just had to use it!  Well I did!  I made the table runner from the book!  As you can see I actually made 3!  I have to order some yardage to finish the back!  I don't  have enough to finish the backs even if I piece it!

 Oh, and don't you just love the colors in this quilt top?!!!  It is Riviera from Connecting Threads!  I have had this line for at least 2 years!  It is so colorful!  I had just enough for this big log cabin block, from the magazine, for the front, back, and binding!

I am also working on the zippered bag from the magazine!  It is going to match a tote that I have already finished!  When I get the bag done, I will post a picture of both!

Wherever you are whatever you are doing I hope you have a wonderful day full of dandelion wishes!
Vickie 

A Little Bit of Everything!

Hi Everybody!!! I wanted to post way before now but I just didn't get to it!

Anyway, here I am! I missed a post on punctuation day! Darn it! My favorite punctuation mark is the exclamation mark! If you couldn't tell!!!! LOL!! What's your favorite?!

We had a great day out at the park in Greenville, OH last week! Of course, it was so hot we didn't or couldn't do much!! So while we ate our yummy Maid-Rites we spied these little cuties having fun in the dead grass! Yep, everyone's grass is dead! The only thing that grows is the weeds!

Have you ever had a piece of fabric you didn't know what to do with?!! Well, here is one of mine!

I think I bought it about two years ago at Jo-Ann's! It doesn't photograph very well! It is much prettier in person!

Anyway I ran across this.......

pattern from Indygo Junction last year and finally got this........



top made 2 weeks ago! YAY for me! You might be thinking, wow that Vickie sure is skinny!
No, my dress dummy is skinny! She is permanently skinny! I can't get her to move into my measurements! She is really just for fun anyway! And she is very old! My friend and I traded some things and this is one thing I got!




I saw this post on sewingin-nomansland the other day and decided I had to make this wonderful scarf with a flower on it for Lilli!
Here is a close up of the flower! The center is glass beads that match the scarf and......

here is the whole scarf! It was so easy and fun to make! I think my nieces will have one for Christmas!!!

My niece's birthday was September 6! She said she was getting a camera and needed a bag for it so I made her this gathered clutch with a handle from a tutorial over at noodlehead!
It was so fun and not as hard as I thought it would be! And Chanz'ee loved it!
This is the inside!

This is the outside! I used the Riviera fabric from Connecting Threads!

I love their fabrics!

That's it for me today! I have lots more to post but it will wait for another day!