Sew What??

I have been meaning to do a blog about all my projects that I have been up to for the last 3-4 months. After returning from Arkansas I received a sewing machine! I can't tell you how excited I am to have one. I haven't done much sewing in my life- aside from those awesome McKelvie Middle School's Home Ec. projects, so this was an adventure.

When Jon and I visited his family this summer in Houston they gave me all the pieces to make an ottoman. As most of you know, I am vertically challenged :-) I have a tough time reaching the floor while sitting on most couches. I was so thankful for this ottoman. It started out as a wooden box.

We then wrapped it with badding and attached a foam piece to the top of it.


I then proceeded to cut out all the sides- I know, I know... I could have done it
so much better- but I had never covered anything before...
Final project!!
After I was done, I had enough left over material to make to pillows
for our love-seat :-)

This next project was a little different. Our bedroom was seriously lacking some color. Our bed doesn't have a head board as of yet- and it was just looking a little boring. We decided that we wanted to make "curtains" to cover the wall behind the bed. We did curtains because of our movie nights that we have. We rent Red Box movies most Monday nights (with an awesome free code. Thanks, Anne for starting us on that!!) We put the movie on a projector and watch it on the wall behind our bed- thus the need for curtains.

Before

After

Okay... so the design is really busy.... we liked it in the store and it took a while to get used to. I think if we got a dark red cover for our comforter it would look much better- but it definitely livens up the white walls!!

Yay for movie nights!!

And lastly, I have been making baby blankets for my friends. I have had so much fun doing them! I was surprised how well they came out. :-)

Baby boy blanket above

Baby girl blanket below
(note the pillow in the picture that matches the ottoman!)

This last one is a nursing cover or its other well known name a "hooter hider". I told this to my sister and she laughed quite a bit because she had never heard of it. this one was fun to make. I have never had to sew with boning before or D-rings. I just borrowed my friend's to get measurements and went off of that.

This picture isn't showing any sewing projects- but this is our new and improved living room. We got this entertainment center at Ikea for $80 and the little dvd holders on the side were $6/ea. Our book shelf, that you can't see here, was completely over flowing and we needed something else to organize everything. Thank goodness for Christmas bonuses :-)

This is our Christmas tree that we failed to put on our Christmas blog :-)

I apologize for this lengthy picture blog, but if I didn't do it now, it would never get done!

Happy New Year!!