Experimenting with fabric

 I already showed you the hexagon mat that I made. I did another one though using Christmas fabrics and made it bigger.

Excuse the bad picture. It was later in the evening and bad light in the cave. Any way, I liked this except not crazy about how the outer rings fabric looks. The pattern of the fabric not matching on the strips kind of annoys my OCD. I like the fabric itself with the other two it's just that one little thing that gets me.

I also played around and made a mug rug beause I wanted to experiment with binding. I used all scrap fabric to make this.

After making the front you take a piece of fabric that is a half inch larger all the way around. You fold in the corners and then the sides to create the binding on the front. I obviously need a lot of practice on that. My seams are all crooked and the corners don't match up. My biggest problem is always accuracy in cutting. This was just for me so it's no big deal I'll keep trying and see if I can get it better.

A fun and easy craft

 Not sure where I saw this idea. It was either on Facebook or Pinterest. I decided to give it a try since I had all the things I needed to make one. That's the advantage of having a huge craft stash.

This is a rag flower made with a canning jar lid

I used mod podge on the burlap center to keep it from fraying. The burlap was white and apparently there was leftover blue paint in the brush I used. Oh well, at least it matches.

To cover up the back I just glued on the other part of the lid. 

I ripped 1" strips of fabric and then cut them to 9" in length. Then I just looped them around the lid ring until it looked full enough. I think I used 16 total strips. Before doing all that though, I drilled a hole in the ring and pushed the dowel rod through then I added some hot glue to hold it in place.

Happy Mothers Day

 Such a mysterious

business, motherhood.

How brave a woman

must be to embark

on it

M. L. Stedman

There's no way to

be a perfect mother,

and a million ways

to be a good one.

Jill Churchill

To all the mom's out there, I wish you a very happy Mother's day. I'm scheduling this almost a week in advance so I have no idea how I will spend the day. I did get an early gift from Amanda though. We were in Walmart the one day and browsing the clearance aisle. They had vacuum sealers and I mentioned that I had looked at those recently and thought about getting one. She asked if I wanted that for my mother's day gift. She also bought one for herself. 

May happy mail card.

You have already seen the card that I sent out for May more than once. It's a picture that I drew in Procreate and then printed out to put on a card. I've posted the card in a previous post but never mentioned that it was the happy mail card for May. So once again here it is.

One nice thing about being off work is that I have plenty of time for crafting and I've already got June's card done and July's is almost finished as well.