More Christmas Presents

I've made most of my Christmas presents already but I needed something fun and... cheap for many of my special work friends.  Our connections is working at Disneyland so why not make something from there!  I found an ornament on Pinterest and thought it would be cute to make from the park map. 

Holiday time has already started in Disneyland on November 11.  That's right, November 11!  What happened to Thanksgiving?  Oh well, but it means I can get to making presents super early!

I took the cover page and part of an inside page and cut them into 1/4 inch strips.  I curled them on a pair of scissors.  The pages were thin enough to curl!  I put them in a glass ornament that I bought from the craft store and done!

 Each one is getting a fancy handmade tag.  I think they turned out really cute and different then anything you can buy.   6 down, 24 to go!

- Bryn

Organizing my mess

I can't throw away even the smallest pieces of fabric.  If it is a long skinny piece that is about an inch wide, kept.  A one inch square, kept.  I keep almost every scrap.  It's a problem I have.  But I can make amazing things from those tiny pieces of fabric!

 Needless to say, when you make a million different projects you get a lot of scraps.  My box was a mess!  I had a little time before work and that seemed like a perfect project.

 I put all the similar colors together in separate piles.  Once I had all the pieces together I rolled the colors with a rubber band.  Awesome!  All my scraps fit in the box again!

Finally being able to find all my scraps will make putting together projects much easier.  After the holidays I plan on doing a scrap project to get rid of my stash.  

Today is the day I go back to working on the black and white quilt. 

- Bryn

Little bunting bag

I found another tutorial online that I could not pass up.  I found it at Just Another hang up probably from Pinterest. This little bag, I love bags, didn't seem too difficult and it would force me to organize my scrap pile.  One of my favorite fabrics to use is muslin and that is what the tutorial called for, perfect!  

 Using my scrap pile I cut tiny triangles in the same color family.  I love making fabric crafts with the ombre color patterns, which up until recently I called a color progression.  I had been doing the ombre style before it was cool.  I'm such a hipster!

 Even the backside of the fabric looked cool.  Too bad it will never be seen again.

 Once both side of the bag was done it was sewing time.  On went the zipper and the lining.

 I think it's kinda cute.  I'm thinking I might shorten it a little bit so there is less non decorated fabric at the bottom.

I wanted the bag to be square when I cut it but now it seems a little odd.  That might solve to extra fabric at the bottom too.

 I'll figure that out tomorrow!

Well the scarp orginizing didn't go that far but the end product is pretty cute.  Tomorrow I probably won't get too much crafting done but the Wednesday and Thursday I have off!  More wedding and Christmas presents here I come!

- Bryn

10 pillows done!

Wow, I already have 10 Christmas presents done and it is only early November!  Woot!

A couple days ago I finished 4 pillows and today I finished 6 more!

To make these pillows it take a lot of steps and lot and lots of small pieces of fabric.  It is all worth it when they are finished.

I finally remembered to make some tags.  ByBryn is offically my craft name and now it's on the my items, but only if I remember!

  I'm going to post 2 of them on Etsy.  Hopefully I will sell something on there.  It's gotta happen eventually right?

-Bryn

Christmas pillows

I finished the tops of some Christmas Pillows recently and really needed to finish them off.  Work has kept me busy and out of my crafting mode.  I had an evening shift tonight which gave me a lot of time to finish them off.

 All Done.  I made one without the red trim around the edges and tore it apart to add the red.  It adds a wonderful finishing detail.  I will have to work on all of them again.  I keep meaning to make a ByBryn tag but I keep forgetting.  Only I would remember to add something after it is completely done.  Oh well, for another day.

 This is my everyone Christmas present this year.  I have about 6 more to make after finishing 4 already.  I just couldn't throw away all these cut pieces.  Another day off tomorrow, another day of crafting ahead.  

Or wedding planning...

- Bryn

Something old and something new

 Wedding planning is taking much of my time these days but there is something else wedding related that I need to get finished.  My brother and his wife just got married two months ago and I promised them a quilt.

Horizontal stripes

 I was practically done with the quilt top when I stopped.  It didn't take very long for me to the majority of the top.  I'm going to put a black border around it as both the length and width are too short.  Now it is the newly married couple's choice on which way the waves go.

Vertical stripes

And now the something new.  I have been wandering the internet and found this cute idea for coasters.  I would love to have a homemade wedding favor that somebody will actually use.  These are a contender, depending on how long they take. 

Cheers coasters

 If this was the gift I would have to make about 200 of them!  Yikes!

Back to work tomorrow but that will not stop me from working on projects anyways.

- Bryn