October round up

Last night I finished this little piece. It's part of And Sew On BoM and separate post will follow once I hang it. Hopefully it'll happen over the weekend.

Here's little round up of the rest. As usual I feel like not much done. I only made few small projects as part of some blog hops. Those hops really keep me going, lol.

Halloween projects for the Wicked blog hop.

Skull pin inspired by the Day of Dead.

Getting ready for Christmas as I joined the Making Christmas hop.

Paper tin cover out of old UFO piece.

Last project from the Zakka Along 2.0

Bag for my girl which is my Purse Palooza project.

This pillow cover was part of Holiday Memories competition. Thank you all who voted since I won the viewer's choice prize which was jelly roll. My first jelly roll ever. I picked Cherry Christmas and I would like to make Scrappy Lone Star out of it. Hopefully you'll see it next month during the Fresh Sewing Day link up.

Spooky trio

This week is all about wicked projects I made for the Wicked Blog hop. I usually make everything at last minute. You know procrastination. Nothing new to me. I wanted to add pumpkin face on my mug rug but since I made it out of felt it was a bit too bulky. I wanted to have it double sided so I did not use my pumpkin at the end. I decided that pincushion would be just fine for it.

I like the back side even more than the front, lol. Scraps, selvedges, ric rac. I used ric rac number of times and never had a problem with it but this one is different. I managed to burn it with iron! I also like to hang things up so I added little loop.

I'm also linking up the pouch into Purse Pallooza. It's not purse in true sense but since it has handle on the side it can be used as clutch. Quite stylish clutch for a wicked night out. Don't you think?

If you like this type of House Pouch you might check my House mania page as this is No.13 already.

Plus the usual Friday linky. TGIFF and Crazy mom quilts.
If you want to see more pics on the mug rug and pouch check out my previous post.

Wicked Blog HOP

Welcome to my stop of Wicked Blog Hop. Our cheerleader for this hop is Wendy  and Madame Samm as usual - thank you ladies! Let's have wicked fun!

I wanted to make Halloween House pouch last year but I haven't managed so I took this opportunity and there you have it.

The pouch is modified version of pattern from Zakka Style book.

On the picture with our aquarium bowl which substitute pumpkin.

Pumpkins, pentagrams, the devil's number. It's all there. 

The stitches on the bats are not really visible. All those embellishments were made as raw edge appliqué.

You might say I have a thing or two for House pouches. You can check previously made on my House Mania page. I also have a thing for The Patchsmith. When I saw her free Pumpkin Face mug rug I wanted one as well but I tried to come up with my version and it didn't work out. I wanted night time face. Like glow in the dark. The light represented by the yellow plus I wanted to get the shadow in there which is represented by orange. I made two versions out of felt and I didn't like either one so I just skipped that pumpkin. The back side became the front and I added simple bat on it.

Pumpkin was meant to go into right corner. 

We do not really celebrate Halloween here. It's imported holiday to us but you can spot some carved pumpkins. We do have All Souls Day on November 2nd. Large amount of people visit the graves and bring some flowers and light the candles for the loved ones. Anyway I got inspired by The Day of Death and this particular post by Making Rebecca Lynne and I created my colorful skull. It has pin on the back side so I can put it on a bag or wear it as brooch. For now I pinned it on my board. Fits right in my pink section.

Enjoy the hop! The schedule for today is as follows:

Becki hosted by Why-Knot-Kwilt

Bumbleberry Stitches

Nini & The Sea

Dancing Moon

Create In The Sticks

Negligent Style ( you are here )

Rose Creations

Kris Loves Fabric

A Geeky Crafty Life

My Quilting Journey

The Recipe Bunny

Making Christmas - list

I wasn't sure if I want to join in this blog hop called Making Christmas but couple days later I'm making my list. You can read all about this hop over at Rainbow Hare Quilts.

Here's my list:

- Christmas theme wall hanging
- Christmas ornaments for local swap
- winter/Christmas theme house pouch
- vinyl pouches as gifts
- pillow covers
- 241 tote pattern by Noodlehead
- felted jewelry
- knitted socks

and mug rugs with pocket on the back. I didn't know what pictures to add so I made up mug rug with snowflakes on it.
I have this idea in my head. I see hexagon wall hanging. Mix of turquoise and white hexagons. Some scrappy, some solids, some with hand stitched snowflakes on it. I tried something similar in small mug rug portion and I'm totally leaving this idea. Even though I like hand stitching I'm not up to this challenge.

I made two hexagons using paper templates. I could see the top fabric through and I didn't like that so I cut out piece of interfacing tiny bit smaller and added in. It was one of those iron on things so I iron it on the top fabric to keep it in place, sewed around and draw snowflake shape on it. I wanted to use Frixion pen at first but I don't have many experiences with it and since this will be given out or mailed in December I didn't want to risk the marks would come out in winter temperatures so I used chalk pen instead.

While making the mug rug I got this idea of mailing it to someone. I might want to add Christmas card or letter so pocket on the back side would be quite useful. So I simply folded one rectangle and added pocket prior the binding. I put some interfacing on it but I don't think it's necessary. I like dots and ric rac and that's what the back side is all about. There are many possibilities to make Christmas theme mug rugs so I hope that inspired you a bit. I sure have that buzz in my head.

Since it's Friday I'm linking up to TGIFF and Crazy mom quilts.

WiP mix

I got a bit guilty over the Broken Herringbones so I pull the fabrics out and got to work. It's just a small progress but that counts too. I need to set up wider designers wall since I need the whole width and plan ahead. The top is my goal for November and it's already 16th, yay.

I'll adjust the size once I have all the stripes together.

I did a bit of crocheting. I'm making some flowers for a friend of mine. She would like to have wreath like the one I made two years ago. I didn't follow any pattern for the flowers so it's not easy to make the same flowers. I'm still trying to get the bigger one the way I used to make it, lol. 

I made this one two years ago.

Those flowers are as a thank you for some Ikea shopping she done for me. I'm quite exited about this sewing related items. Oh yeah, no more lying bags of batting and interfacing on the floor. I got quite a few piles everywhere so there is some cleaning and reorganizing in my sewing space going on as well. Yipee!

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