Happy Easter! I hope everyone had a great weekend :) I sure did! My boyfriend was in town and we got to do a lot together. Yesterday we went to the movies and then dinner with his parents and then we went to a park to walk around for a little bit before going to the Easter Vigil at my church. I'm so glad he got to experience that with me because it's my most favorite mass of the whole entire year. Then today we went to the Reds game with his friend Tanner and my friend Sammie. Shout out to Momma Tree for the tickets - thank you sooooo much! It was a beautiful day and a great game with awesome peeps :) The only bad parts were the sunburn and the fact that my Ky had to go back to school :( but I shall see him soon enough! I'm heading to Athens on Thursday to spend a few days with him and see where he gets edumacated.
On another note, I haven't gotten my challenge yet, so in the meantime I shall talk about a recent project. Most recent would have to be the mustache keychains I made for some friends at work. I saw them on Pintrest, but the tutorial there was kinda complicated and I couldn't get my machine to stitch them, so I made them by hand. I cut a mustache out using my Cricut and the Bump in the Night cartridge. I traced it onto the wrong side of the fabric (I used a heavy, one sided, pleathery fabric. Not sure what it's called. I got it in the remnants bin at Joann's...) and then cut them out. I also cut out a small rectangle to use for the tab where it would attach to the keyring. I embroidered their initial on one of the mustaches and then glued the two mustaches together, but just in the middle with wrong sides together! I just wanted them to be stuck together for the sewing portion without having to pin them. After the glue dried, I used a contrasting thread and started sewing them together. I folded the rectangle in half and created the tab for the keyring to attach to. I stuck that in just as I was about to sew it so I knew it was in place correctly. Then I finished sewing it up and hid the knot/end between the two halves. I will be doing an actual tutorial sometime in the future because I still have one I need to make and I will take pictures and give more detail when I do that, but if you have questions before that happens, feel free to comment and ask :)
Until next time....
Nikki
On another note, I haven't gotten my challenge yet, so in the meantime I shall talk about a recent project. Most recent would have to be the mustache keychains I made for some friends at work. I saw them on Pintrest, but the tutorial there was kinda complicated and I couldn't get my machine to stitch them, so I made them by hand. I cut a mustache out using my Cricut and the Bump in the Night cartridge. I traced it onto the wrong side of the fabric (I used a heavy, one sided, pleathery fabric. Not sure what it's called. I got it in the remnants bin at Joann's...) and then cut them out. I also cut out a small rectangle to use for the tab where it would attach to the keyring. I embroidered their initial on one of the mustaches and then glued the two mustaches together, but just in the middle with wrong sides together! I just wanted them to be stuck together for the sewing portion without having to pin them. After the glue dried, I used a contrasting thread and started sewing them together. I folded the rectangle in half and created the tab for the keyring to attach to. I stuck that in just as I was about to sew it so I knew it was in place correctly. Then I finished sewing it up and hid the knot/end between the two halves. I will be doing an actual tutorial sometime in the future because I still have one I need to make and I will take pictures and give more detail when I do that, but if you have questions before that happens, feel free to comment and ask :)
Until next time....
Nikki
wth!? Why don't you put that project on here! lol! That sounds ideal!
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