Craft Day: Bean Bags from Scraps

While I was rummaging through my craft box, I saw I had kept the triangles I had cut out while making Olivia’s crown. I started playing with them, to see how easy it would be to make a little quilt out of them. But before I knew it, I had these sitting in front...

Craft Day: A Superhero Cape – Part Two – FINISHED!

Now for the fun part.  And as it’s 2 a.m., my creative juices are flowing.  It reminds me an awful lot of college. I printed out a large (600 pt), bold, Century Gothic ‘B’.  I was flipping through the fonts, saw “Century Gothic”, thought...

Craft Day: A Superhero Cape – Part One

This thing took me ALL.DAY (and into the next day – I didn’t go to bed til 2!) to make.  Once I got the hemming done, it was easy as cake and even fun.  But THE HEMMING. *shudder* I started by drawing a semi-circle on the fabric.  I used Benjamin’s...

Craft Day: A Princess Crown – Part Three (FINISHED!)

It’s a tad taller than I’d hoped for (and I say “hoped” because I never can do math well enough to be sure that it’ll work out just like I planned…), but it’s a crown, and it’s a cute one, at that! I think it kinda looks...

Craft Day: A Princess Crown – Part Two

Well, I survived the sewing machine thus far!  It hasn’t all been perfect, but I think it’s turning out okay regardless… I sewed the inner crown together – just on the top, leaving the sides open.  Then I had the fun task of pulling it all...