Rainy days and Sundays...or Mondays( if I wanted to correctly quote the song)

Don't get me down but they sure do get in the way of painting furniture :o(

Instead I cleaned my sewing space and finished Katy's ruffle pillow!!!!!!

I used a tutorial from Midwestern Sewing Girl and changed the single row to a double row for more ruffle.  I also added a zipper instead of the envelope back.

The thing I learned is to make sure to loosen the upper thread on the machine *bang head*  I was killing my fingers and I finally took out the manual to the old girl ( the machine not me) and set the upper tension and it made all the difference in the world.

I used the Hello my name is in pastel colorway by Robert Kaufman. It made it a much easier start. Chose the colors I wanted and sewed .75 in on either side. Then pulled to make the ruffles.

I pinned the ruffles to the fabric for the pillow and sewed over the lines that made the ruffles.

Fun and easy project and I am pretty sure some white ones will be showing up in my room soon :o)

An updated photo after the  sun came out this afternoon!!!!!

This is the reason my photos are so cruddy.

Have a great Sunday!!!!!

Kim :o)

Amy Butler...I love you!

I am never disappointed with the beautiful blues and greens of Amy Butler! I decided to use them in Katy's beach room so I took the cathedral windows I was working on and turned them into a pillow for her room. It matches perfectly.

I did a sort of rugby stripe with the windows to give it a more casual teen room feel.

This is my favorite window ( the one on the left) :o)

The back

Easy zipper access 

I did half windows on the ends, I just liked the look of it.

The next pillow I will hopefully finish tomorrow after I prime the furniture.

A sea of blue!!!!!!!

Linked up at Sew Modern Monday

Also linked to Fabric Tuesday on Quilt Story

Kim :o)

Bringing the beach home for Katy

Katy wanted to have the beach all year at home. She is a beach girl through and through! Who can blame her, the beautiful colors and the lovely sounds. But we live far from the beach so I am trying to capture the beach feeling for her and I hope she likes it.

I bought this a couple of years ago and it had been sitting in a closet. I figured you cannot get more beachy than dunes and a palm tree.

I had some issues applying it and there were cracks all over the place :o(

I am trying my hand at fixing it with some inexpensive acrylics from Joann's. I have never painted anything in my life so I am really nervous about this!

This is the trunk of the tree that was split in two. I need to do a little more color matching but...

From far away you cannot tell at all :o) I have so much more to do with the painting and her bathroom is being redone to match too.


Back to painting I go. I am looking forward to back to school and back to sewing!!!!!!


Kim :o)