Mom, can you make me this?

Anna seen a bag tutorial on this site and asked me to make it for her with a couple of her own design changes. She wanted the shoulder strap longer and the bag a little "deeper". I also changed the button closure to a snap just because I forgot to sew in the tab when I was making it and I had the snap already in the house. LOL! So Tuesday I made it for her. I still need to put the requested zippered pocket in it but she wanted to use it this weekend and I don't have a zipper in the house so she will have to wait for that.One funny thing about the site where she found the bag at, she found it by googling for a bag. When she gave me the site name to look at it I said, "Hey that name looks familiar" sure enough I subscribe to it in my Google Reader. What a coincidence.

Smiles!

Another Completed Project

A year ago or so I made some new curtains for my mother's living room and dining room. At that time we hadn't discussed making curtains for her kitchen window but after the rest of the curtains were up she had asked me if I had enough fabric left to make a new curtain for her kitchen also. She said she wasn't in a hurry just whenever I get to it. That isn't a good thing to tell me if you want something done. I tend to leave it on the back burner.

Here is a corner of her dining room with the curtains that I made.

Here is what her kitchen curtain looked like when she left on vacation.

Here is what she is going to find when she gets home tomorrow.

Surprise! I wonder how long it will take her to notice.....

Smiles!

Productive morning

This morning I finally made a seat cushion for the chair in Anna's room.

The chair came from a friend of ours who owns a business that makes these chairs and this one was a prototype that had been through testing and Anna asked if they were going to dump it could she have it for her bedroom. Since it was used for testing it didn't have any of the seat cushions on it.

I think she will be surprised because I didn't even tell her that I was thinking about doing this. I had picked up the foam earlier this week and the fabric is from my "stash" that I already had. I am a fabric junkie and not afraid to admit it.

I also finished up her bed skirt this morning. She knows about this because she picked out the fabric and the trim. I am a little bummed that it isn't a perfect match to her bedspread but she wants me to make a new quilt for her bed someday and then I am certain it will match.


Smiles!