Some New Faerie Houses and a New Bird Potholder Design

So, it's been forever since we posted.  Sorry.  In the meantime we've been working on lots of things.  First we have a new design of a bird potholder.

We've also used a similar design on notebook covers.  There the bird is bigger and has eggs and a hatchling around it.

Next a new faerie house by Aline.

And one by Lorena.

Potholder Teaser

Heres a quick look at some of our new line of potholders.  We'll be putting them all up online soon...teaser!

Our First Tutorial...sort of

I decided to do our first tutorial on here as something I just wanted to try. I found this tutorial for a recycled t-shirt bag based on the design of plastic grape bags. I wanted to try it with a thin sweater, so I decided to take pictures of the whole process and post them on here. And I did. Except then the pictures got lost in cyberspace. They weren’t on my camera or computer...I don’t know where they went, but I can’t find them.

Anyways, here’s a link to the t-shirt version tutorial, and a picture (retaken later) of the finished product of the bag I made.

http://pm-betweenthelines.blogspot.com/2010/03/quick-fix-grocery-bag-tutorial.html

The only differences between doing this project with a t-shirt versus a sweater, is that if your sweater buttons up the front, you have to sew the button part closed. I also added a little fold over closure on the top to further make use of the buttons.





I think I cut the slits too large and I might play around with doing loose zigzag over them to close it up more. I also could’ve left the collar on, it just would’ve made the opening a little smaller.

-Aline

Pieced Sweater Blanket

Here's my pieced sweater blanket. A few years ago Gap and Old Navy had a million of these multicolored striped sweaters. Now they have made their way to the thrift stores. I like the combination because they are all related, yet different. The blanket is lap sized (about 54" square). I have red corduroy to put on the back but haven't added this yet. Now that it's pushing 90 degrees outside, I have a nice warm lapquilt :)