Nursing Cover

I have a friend that is expecting her first baby and thought, "What can I make that costs no money?"  I looked through my fabric and decided I could make her a nursing cover.  It looked simple to make and was! The only thing I bought was D rings which I spent about $1.20.  For the part that bows out, I used the handle from an ice cream bucket.  I had no pattern for this and was so proud at how it turned out!

Old timer sander

When I first started this project we had a nice little palm sander.  We have a table saw that needs a higher voltage of power and therefore we have one outlet that has 220volts.  I did not know this when I started this project months ago and picked up an extension cord (which happened to be plugged into this outlet) and plugged the sander into.  As I am sanding, the plastic pieces that hold the sand paper in breaks off! I was thinking, "What the heck, my husband uses this all the time why does it have to break for me?" I then found out that it had WAY too much power and vibrated those plastic pieces right off! So, since the other one was broken, I found this old looking sander and started using it.  It worked for about five minutes and then started SMOKING. I have now borrowed another palm sander and and still working on finishing sanding.  Most of our stuff is packed and ready to move and we are planning on leaving this week! We will see what happens. I am very sick today and will not get anything done so hopefully I can get better soon and be productive.

Up Next We Have...

Ookay, since I finished one of my projects its time to start the next one.  I want to finish this crib and in order to do so, I need to finish it before we move! Our tentative moving date is the last week of this month.  That only gives me about two weeks! If it goes anything like the table and chairs I will defintley not finish, so I need to make sure I am working hard on it as well as getting all my stuff packed! Any moral support would be much appreciated. Make a comment and let me know you are following me and supporting me. That will help.

Sorry the crib is behind the table saw.  As you can maybe tell, I have started sanding.  I have a funny story about when I started sanding this project I will save for my next post.  I will take better pics when I pull the crib out and get started on it :)

Finally Finished

Here are the pics!! It feels so good to finish a project :)

Birthday Quilt

I had to finish another project before I got done with my table and chairs because my sister's birthday was on the 15th of March.  I asked her if there was anything that she wanted that didn't cost any money.  Her answer was "a quilt." So luckily, an aunt of mine was getting rid of a lot of fabric and I got enough stuff to make a pretty decent quilt for my sister.  I am quit proud of how it turned out and I finished it in a week!

This is the finished product.  I had some old jeans that I used for the border that I had saved just for a project like this.  I really liked how it brought out the blue from the canoes.

This is a close up of the fabric.  This fabric is the LAST thing I would have picked for this particular sister if I was buying the fabric, but since I have no money, this is what I used and I think she loved it anyway.

I was really lucky with this project in the fact that I already had EVERYTHING.  Even the yarn I used to tie it matched it perfectly! I spent no money on it!  Well I did get the batting donated from my wonderful mother-in-law, who I could not finish any of my projects without.  She helped guide me through this quilt until I finished it.