{Patchwork pincushions}

Here's some fun patchwork pincushions that I made. I love how they turned out, and the greatest thing is that I just used scraps left over from other projects.

These first 3 pincushions are for sale...$5 each.  If you are interested in purchasing one of these please contact me at: chelscraps@yahoo.com.

And this last one is mine. I love having a smaller pincushion to carry with me when I take my projects with me somewhere.

more yo-yo's

These first two are very similar, I just reversed the green & pink fabrics & used different buttons.

I used vintage buttons from my mom's collections for all of these flowers. I was so excited when she gave me permission to raid her buttons. That probably sounds funny to many of you, but I love, love, love buttons {but not quite as much as I love ribbon}!

Someday, hopefully soon, you'll get to see the full version of this fun fabric. The center fabric here has the cutest print that reminds me of The Littlest Petshop animals. I used the scraps from a fun bag that I'm making for my 10 yr. old for her birthday, so when I finish that you'll be able to see the full version of this very cute print!

These last 2 were for a friend's daughter. On this one I used scraps from another bag that I am making for another one of my girls' birthdays. She kept trying to take the scraps of this fabric from me to make her own hair pretties, so I'm pretty sure I picked the right prints for her!

lots of pretties

Here are some of the flowers that I made while we were camping this summer. Like I said before I don't like to sit around & do nothing, so I took some little sewing projects with me.

My sister, Heather, made this one. She saw me making these yo-yo flowers & wanted me to teach her, so this was her first one.



I thought this one was really cute. The button in the center is from a new set from Stampin' Up! I love their new buttons.


I decided to combine the yo-yo & a rosette flower on this one.



My 14 yr old daughter took a sewing class last semester & she made a skirt out of this green & brown fabric. So we wanted to make a flower to coordinate with her skirt. I'll have to take a picture of her skirt & post it. It turned out really cute!




This one is made out of knit instead of a cotton fabric. I like how it turned out. The different fabric sure makes it look different!





My sweet little M (my 10 yr old daughter) was my model!