Autumn Table Runner

Over on Sew SwapIt (a group on FB) this month was swap a table runner in Halloween or Autumn theme. I made one, posted it, sat there for a few days staring at it, decided to make a different one.

This is 15x45, made with 48 HST, a spin on a couple of the HST from the BOM I follow, I took two I liked and made them bigger. I'm hoping to get a tutorial up soon, bare with me though I keep getting stuck trying to type it up.

I made 6 coasters out of a few extra squares to go along with the runner and to round it off as a set.

Remember September...Sew Along

Over at SewBitterSweetDesigns & HopefulThreads, they have gotten together and came up with a project for this month.

 Remember Service Men & Women, Creating a Handmade Holiday 

to those serving overseas this coming Holiday Season. 

They are linking and providing tutorials and patterns for Pillowcases and eReader cases (of all shapes and sizes) on blogs, shops, even Pintrest.

I will be contributing to this project, as a Military Family, Hubby is Active Duty Army, my father and grandfather both served along with a few uncles. I feel very close to this cause, I lost count how many Holidays my husband has missed in his 13 yrs of service.

Just typing this up I have chills, I can't even imagine what its like to be away from family and friends, while on a deployment, during the Holidays.

Check out the projects and if you can sew up a few things, theres a Flickr group to post to, all would love to see your finished items.

Heres some great FREE tuts and patterns

Here are some measurements HopefulThreads posted:

Here are dimensions for some popular e-readers. If you can, it would be super great if you labeled whichever style you sew your cover for if specific.

More details about this September Monthly Project on the blog here, http://hopefulthreads.blogspot.com/2012/09/september-monthly-project-announcement.html

blackberry playbook is 5" x 7.5" and is 3/8" wide

Kindle Fire and it is 7.5" x 4.7" x .45" (thickness)

Kindle: 6.5 x 4.5 x 0.34 inches

Kindle Touch: 6.8 x 4.7 x 0.40 inches

Kindle Touch 3g: 6.8 x 4.7 x 0.40 inches

Nook Simple Touch: 6.5" x 5.0" x 0.47"

Nook Color: 8.1" x 5.0" x 0.48"

Nook Tablet: 8.1" x 5.0" x 0.48"

Kindle DX: 10.4" x 7.2" x 0.38"

Sony: 6.61 x 4.68 x 0.38 inches

Nook 1st Ed: 7.7 x 4.9 x 0.5 inches  

Kobo: 7.2 × 4.7 × 0.4 in

Kobo Touch: 6.5 × 4.5 × 0.4 in

iPad :First Generation = 9.56×7.47×0.528 in (243×190×13.4 mm) 

Second Generation = 9.5×7.31×0.346 in (240×186×8.8 mm) 

Third Generation (newest) = 9.5×7.31×0.37 in (240×186×9.4 mm)

Please feel free to add others! Thanks for all your help!!!

Special gift

Every order in June will recieve a small gift from Nonna.

Stop on by & check out the shops,

I'm slowly stocking up new items over on HC

and coming soon a Birthday Theme Stocking.

Up for grabs are a few vintage reloved pillowcase dresses

twirl skirts

and a stocked up clearance section

Shop Shop Shop

Wk 20 of 52

Here I have a Baby Blanket

While trying to gather it all in my head I kept seeing different textures so the new little girl receiving it could enjoy feeling around everywhere.

The body of the front is flannel, the stems/leaves and flowers are fleece, the center circle is textured cotton and the trim is cotton velour, stitched on to a pre quilted backing.

Here's a few pics along the way, its not a full tut but if you have any questions feel free to ask away.

(after 5 attemps at drawing out what I was actually seeing in my head........)

heres a pictorial of the steps

I used # 8



then right at the end I saw I had this velour that matched perfectly so I just had to ad on the trim

Wk 10 of 52

This week was a no sew project and a tut to boot

Baby Bunny Gift

~To make (a simple) Bunny

1 burp cloth,

2 baby wash cloths

a bit of ribbon

1. roll long sides of burp cloth in

(I pinned one side as I rolled the other)

here's both rolled,

pin to hold while you do the next step

2. fold up one corner of the wash cloth,

roll both up,

one will be the ears and one will be the arms

3. place the ears in the center of the body

4.fold the body over

place a bit of ribbon behind the burp cloth under the washcloth

tie the ribbon to form the head,

tuck the bow into the burp cloth

5.pull the washcloth/ears up and pin to hold,

tie a bit of ribbon at the base of the ears,

unpin

6.open the burp cloth/body and place in the second washcloth,

place ribbon behind again and tie under the arms to form the chest

again tuck bow into the burp cloth

7. bring arms together and pin to hold,

tie a bit of ribbon to hold arms,

unpin

You're done!

~To make a complete bunny gift~

Place bunny on top of a 4oz bottle

or before adding the ribbon to make the chest,

insert a 8-10 oz bottle,

tie chest ribbon around bottle too

before tieing arms add on a binky then tie

A complete yet simple gift in one

softies for Christchurch

As I posted earlier about the softie drive here ,

we now have our box all ready to go out tomorrow morning.

Included are 3 Tutrtles and 4 Owls

March of Dimes

What better reason to shop!?!

Stop on by and check this out.

We at Riotcart are pledging to donate 20% of our monthly sales to March of Dimes

Click link to find out more

http://www.riotcart.com/news/2011/03/01/march-of-dimes/

We made it......

Strut your stuff for february has begun, I'd love it if you stopped on by and voted for your favorite(s)

Softie drive

Do you sew, crochet, knit?

Care to join in?

We are aiming to send out a handful of Owls shortly.

http://kiwiatheart-leonie.blogspot.com/2011/02/softies-for-children-of-christchurch.html#comment-form

Super Special Discount Code

~Ended~

Today is a very special day here at the Noguchi Designs household,4 years ago I got the best Birthday present ever, my youngest child and only daughter was born on my 28th birthday. Special birthday discount code for a limited time only, use code bday28 for 28% off any purchase on the two shops, buy something from Noguchi Designs on the congo & I'll refund you the % amount.Hurry Hurry who knows when the offer will end.