Thursday, May 23, 2013

Mouse-pad from a Swatch

I started off with a  cotton swatch of my Painted Horses design. The printed area is 8"x 8".

Here's what the mouse-pad looks like now. The mod podge slightly darkens the colors.

The bottom is two layers of batting glued together with mod podge and quilted.

Here's a closer look at the quilting. If I do this again I'll be sure to use white thread in the bobbin since the teal thread on the glued side shows through a bit on the white parts of my horses!

The swatch was coated in mod podge and left to dry before another coat of mod podge glued it to the quilted base.

I trimmed everything down after the second round of mod podge had dried, and now I have a mouse pad from one of my favorite fabrics!

Fabric Images IV.

Friday, April 12, 2013

Two Contest Entries

Here are my entries for the most recent Spoonflower fabric of the week contests. For the Gardening Tools contest I entered my Painting the Roses Red design, and for the Pop Art Chickens contest I entered CMYK Rooster Pop.

Painting the Roses Red

Painting the Roses Red

Painting the Roses Red

Painting the Roses Red

CMYK Rooster Pop


CMYK Rooster Pop

CMYK Rooster Pop


Winged Scarab Dress

This week I finally got around to making a dress with my fabric! It's made using my Winged Scarab design and Simplicity pattern 3673

the finished dress

and a closer look at the print

Friday, March 22, 2013

Warmable Rice Pillow

I used my Kittens on Taupe fabric for the top.

A closer look at the seams.
The bottom is made from my Royal Blue Floral fabric.