Top Ten Things I am in Love with Right now!

1. Sewing!!! Do you really need more explanation?

2. I have a love hate relationship with my computer. I hate that I love to be on it!

3. Upstairs! (the kids can be on one level and me on the other- hee hee hee)

4. My camera! Takes great pics!

5. My Hubby for buying me the really nice camera!!!

6. Blogging!!! I love to share my stuff!!!

7. cozicentral.cozi.com for organizing my lists, and calender, with no paper involved.

8. Sons of Anarchy

9. My air conditioning!!!

10.Ice Cream

Here is the one I did before of your curious

What to make next?

I have a list growing everyday (Since I keep reading peoples craft blogs) of things I want to try and make.

I have made 13 purses, 10 pin cushions, 2 pillow cases, sandwich bag, 2 sewing machine covers, 3 ruffled shirts, 2 car visors, recovered a chair, 3 coasters, and did I mention all the purses I made? So my question is what do I make next?

Shower Curtain (the problem is I don't have a curtain in my bathroom)
Quilted Tool Carrier (need more instructions)
Skirt (afraid to start)
Bungee cord cover (do I really need a bungee cord cover)
Camera case
Tube Quilting (afraid to start)
Square coasters
Fitted Sheets
Stairway gate (need pipe and a way to attach it to the wall)

or do I go back to making more purses and pin cushions?

Sewing Machine cover

Made a new one, the other one was too small so I gave it to my mom who just happens to love RED!!! WIN WIN!!!

Ok so I made this out of extra fabric, so yes its orange, oh well at least--I wont lose it ha ha
I made a flower for this one too. He seems kinda lonely though?My favorite part is the rick rack I sewed to the bottom I used my special Zig Zag foot that has a 1/4" ribbon feed to keep the rick rack in place as you sew and I love it!!!Can you see the little whole at the bottom?

I made a couple shirts

What do you think?
They will ruffle more after we wash them. :)

Made some more...

I made pillow cases for the boys today

Heres Jacob'sI forgot to take a pic before he took it to bed so here's Chase's ha ha

He wanted a star pattern on it so it looked like a magic pillow.

ok ok I made it bigger ...

Here's the straps. I added some stitches.

Here's the button flap. I sewed around it twice for look and durability. It's kinda off center but I don't care.
Here's the front. I forgot to put Pellon in it so its thinner. Oops. I made the pockets huge too. I don't know if I like it or not. But they are big! Also I bought a great button for this and Gilli (or so I thought) took it and lost it. So I ended up using this one.Here's the top. (Closed)
Here's the inside. (Open)
It's about 10" x 17" and the straps are like 22"
I don't know how long this one took since I didn't pay attention. And after I started sewing Gilli "lost" my button that I bought to use and I searched the whole house for it. (Later finding it under a small paper on the table I was sewing at all day, oh well) Then Jason took us out to dinner for Chase's birthday since he didn't have school tonight. (some kind of teacher thing)
Anyway this is it, my first bag that I kinda designed on my own. I did get tips from these blogs though.
Lush Bag
Reversible Hand Bag
Reversible tote
1 hour bag

I made a pin cushion?

Kinda? I'm not sure if I like it or not? But here it is nonetheless.
I only made the right one. I just put the other on in the pic for reference to how big it is.

Two More!!

I made two bags the "same" but reversed.
It took me a bit longer to make two at the same time since I cut, ironed, and sewed all the pieces at the same time. But they are cute and I made them and they are done. Whoo Hoo!!! Now for something a bit different??? maybe, I really like these bags!!!

I picked random stitches for the pockets.

One More?

I made another one today (Contest ↓ 4 posts)

Smiling on Saturday (Contest ↓ )

Today we all kinda did something different Chase and Jacob had a birthday party they went to, Jason had friends over to play on motorcycles, Taylor and I made more purses. These are the ones I made I didn't get pics of hers. :(
Flower stitching on Savannah's pocket.

Stitching on Gillian's pocket she called it "Lock"
Dog stitching on both the girls pockets.

One side of the reversible purses.
The other sides.

Edited to add...

The girls and Jeremiah played in the pool all day and I forgot to take pics.

For help with binding

If you want to look up binding stuff I got some info from here.
http://www.ehow.co.uk/video_4437822_sewing-quilt-bindings.html
this is how to sew binding on. and corners.
http://www.ehow.co.uk/video_4437818_connecting-bias-strip-quilt.html
this is how to finish it off and have no bulk or seam.

Or in case I forget and want to look it up again. :)

On to the Hand quilting!!!

This is what it looks like with the binding on and not sewn to the back.
This is a close up of the starting point. You can't even tell that I really started here. Except a little back stitching on the front....
and on the back.
Here is a preview of what it will look like after I sew it to the back. Nice and clean corner.
Here is the back pinned to show you. (Probably Monique only cares, Hi Monique ;) )
I did it. I made a blanket about 45" x 60" Whoo Hoo!!! All that is left is the hand sewing and I have myself a blanket. Now to figure out where to put it. And what to start next. Maybe I can talk Jason into buying me another fabric set? Maybe I will make something out of the scraps from this blanket? I just don't know. Maybe I will put my iron away since its been out the whole time. (I think this is that longest time its been out. LOL) Maybe I will make the girls each a bag for church? maybe this is the start of making all the kids a blanket? I just don't know.

Done with the quilting part.

I chose to do a wavy "S" but after the first row I hated it but I didn't want to take it out so I had to finish the rest of the rows with it.
Here is a close up of the stitch.

Then after I did the rows I did the columns just in a regular stitch in the ditch but still am unhappy with the other stitch. Oh well though it is not coming out. So I cut my 6 strips for the binding. Sewed them together and ironed them in half. If you have never made your own binding, you don't know how difficult it is to iron it in half. I forget until I have to do it again. I made it all "purty" after I ironed it. Isn't it purty?
Tomorrow I will sew it on, then all I have left ...

is the...

HAND SEWING....

AAAWWWW!!!!!! I hate the hand sewing part!!!!!
And this is bigger then any table runner I have made... ;)