Blue Power Ranger Applique Design

I created this blue power ranger applique design for my youngest son Andrew. He recently turned 5 and thanks to Netflix is obsessed with the power rangers. I am new to applique designing and hit a few snags here and there. I noticed a few changes that needed to be made after the first stitch out. It is a learning process for sure. I bought the Embird program for editing, digitizing, and converting applique designs last May. It isn't very user friendly for beginners. I have learned a lot over the last year through trial and error and with a little help from You Tube. After I stitched out the blue power ranger applique design I realized that the symbol color was wrong. It should be black with a white outline. Thankfully he is only 5 and wasn't bothered by this blunder.

Free Daily Household Routine Printable

I found a free daily household routine printable today. I was looking for something customizable. I wanted to be able to change what needed to be done with out creating a whole new document. I made one for Joshua and one for myself. I thought I would share this great find with other bloggers. You have to have Adobe to open it and customize it.

You can go the website Fresh and Organized to download the Free Daily Household Routine Printable.

God Bless!

Easy Burp Cloth Tutorial

A reader of Fabric Mom recommended this easy burp cloth tutorial to me. I thought I would share it with you.
EASY BURP CLOTH TUTORIAL

Blue Charm Quilt Pattern

I designed a baby quilt called Blue Charm Quilt using EQ7 and wanted to share it with everyone. It is a very easy beginners quilt pattern. If you want it to have a scrappy look it will take 64 five inch squares. Charm packs would be great for this pattern. Please feel free to share this with anyone. I would love to see a picture of a finished product if anyone decides to make it. The link is to a PDF of the instructions. If you need a .doc or .odt format let me know and I can email it to you.

Happy Sewing!

Home Made Congestion Remedy

I woke up with a cold Saturday morning. Minor head congestion, stuffy nose, and sore throat. I have been taking generic Mucinex to help loosen the congestion. I found two home made congestion remedies on Pinterest to try.

The first home made congestion remedy I tried you can find here at Fitsugar. I can't begin to describe how awful the burning was from the amount of Cayenne pepper. When mixing up the recipe I thought to myself that it seemed like a little bit too much. My sinuses did loosen up mildly, but no more than from taking over the counter medicine. From the awful taste I decided that it wasn't worth trying again.

The second home made congestion remedy I tried you can find here at Good Food Matters. The taste was pretty good and not nearly as bad. Again it didn't help any better than the Mucinex medicine. I should take more of it. However, I'm not a big fan of spicy.

I'm not feeling any better than when I started the experiments. Now my ears are clogged.

Vintage Umbrella

 

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I found this blog Vintage Umbrella while searching for Christmas ornaments on pinterest. She has some great tutorials and craft ideas. Had to share them with my blogging friends. 23 days until Christmas. Who is ready? NOT ME!

Gift Card Holder Tutorial

I found this cute gift card holder tutorial through Pinterest. I thought these would be great to share with you for the up coming holidays. You can make them in holiday prints or the receivers favorite color.

Here is the link to making the world cuter and the tutorial. Tiffany was kind enough to share this tutorial on her blog. Happy Sewing.

Nautical Themed Baby Quilt

I made this nautical themed baby quilt not too long ago. I used the Moda Nautical and nice fabric charms.

I used a Noah's ark fabric on the back. I found a ton of it at a thrift store a while back. I have used it on the back of a lot of baby quilts.

I free motion quilted rows of waves in a cream colored thread and used a dark navy blue fabric binding.

Sausage Breakfast Casserole

We like to eat breakfast now and again for dinner. I wanted to do something different; outside of our usual routine. I searched Google for sausage breakfast casseroles and found this one.

Sausage Breakfast Casserole

It was very easy to make. It took about 15 minutes of prep before I popped it in the preheated oven. Here is what it looks like cooking.

I'll update this post later with my review and a picture of it when it came out of the oven.

Here is the finished product. I took the picture with my phone. It is slightly blurry.

This casserole was so good. All three boys and my hubby loved it. Now to get everyone raving over it is unusual at my house. They are all picky in one way or another. There was only a 1/4 of it left over and hubby ate that for breakfast. This is definitely going to become a staple. 

I did do a couple things different than the recipe. I used honey wheat bread instead of white. I also toasted it in the toaster before cutting it up. I added a touch of garlic powder and onion powder with the salt and pepper. 

Let me know if you try it! Enjoy!

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How to make a kids cape

I was cutting up t-shirts and sweat shirts that belong to our eldest son today when I had a flash of genius. There was an adult large hooded sweat shirt that looked like a kids cape once I cut off the arms and the front. Our youngest son, Andrew will be four in April. I had him try on the kids cape and he loves it. He didn’t really want to pose for pictures. He is camera shy and has a hard time standing still.

Baby Burp Cloth with Loops Tutorial

Merriment Design has a lot of great free craft ideas. Thought I would share this tutorial for a baby burp cloth with loops to attach toys or pacifiers. Very cool and an easy sewing projects.
Baby Burp Cloth with Loops Tutorial by Merriment Design

Vintage Sheet Baby Quilt Tutorial from Craftytammie

Craftytammie has posted a baby quilt tutorial using vintage sheets. It is very cute and trendy. Thought I would share that with you.
Vintage Sheet Baby Quilt Tutorial by Craftytammie

Busy Bee

I am so busy. You would think with Christmas being over that I could slow down and relax. I sat down this evening determined to come up with a Monday through Friday schedule for myself so that I can use my time more efficiently. Or something to the effect of telling my time where to go instead of wondering where the day went. I want to fell like I have accomplished something when my head hits the pillow. I used to have so much time for sewing. Now I seem to have none.

I have managed to make a few tutus and pot holders. Not much else. I got a Janome Memory Craft 350e Embroidery Machine for Christmas. I am so excited and want to use it. One of the many reasons for the schedule.
What do you do to keep your self on task? I'd love to hear any tips.
Happy Sewing.

Tall Jar Quilt Block Pattern

Tall Jar Quilt Block Pattern

I saw this on a friends blog and had to share it with you.