I've been busy too

It's not only Cody in the sewing room getting things done.  I've been working away too.
Seeing as the girls are joining us on the Island for a week, I decided to get rid of a piece of fabric that has been around for awhile.  Morgan mentioned her dog pillowcase, so I grabbed this off the pile and made it up.

I bought this in a little quilt shop up in Shakespeare a few years ago.  I gave it away to a friend -- I didn't really, she stole it -- but it came home again when her cat passed away.
Now it has a new home.  It will be loved!

I purchased the yellow for the band at Sewing Machines, etc. and I only bought enough for what I was doing.  I wasn't feeling well that day!
I really wasn't.  It took me three tries to start this case.  After attempt #2, I looked up the directions
on the internet.  Nearly 200 cases made and she just could not do it!!!  Says a lot about me, doesn't it.

Project #2 was a new pair of oven mitts.  Both pairs in the trailer had seen better days and I was going to buy some new ones when I saw this tutorial on Facebook.

http://blog.goodsmiths.com/2014/06/17/make-quilted-bbq-or-oven-mitt/ 

I had everything I needed to make them including the perfect fabric that I had purchased a couple of years back when we were in Prince Edward Island.

They took me two days.  One mitt one day and the other mitt the next day.  We had a busy week and that was all the time I could spare to get them made.

 If you take a look at the tutorial you will notice I added a loop and a ring to mine.  They hang up in the kitchen so I needed something on the mitts that would do the job.  I'll secure that ring when I sew down the binding.  I also used "silver" on the back of the mitts.  Yes, that was in stock too.
When Cody was making his snap happy pouch, I really had problems with the directions.  I guess I was having a "not so smart" day, but do you think I could find out how to make that casing.

We struggled through and did get it done, but on Friday I decided to make up a sample and put it in the envelope with my directions on how to do it.

I may do this again in the future for those things I don't make often.  

There is a lot of talking going on in the sewing room and on Wednesday last, Cody said wouldn't it be cool if there was fabric with circuit boards on it.  hehehehehehe, I found one and showed it to him.  Then he said something about a fabric with computer ports.......found that too.  We decided to order it from a company called fabric.com.  I ordered it Wednesday night and on Friday, UPS stopped in front of the house with a parcel for me.  It was the fabric.  Cody and I are both so impressed we just might be using them again.

The last fabrics were purchased from Sewing Machines, etc.  I have no idea what he plans for all this fabric.  I think a pillowcase and we could get two out of the green and black and I believe console covers out of the robots.
I hope we have a lot of time to get all this done.  We'll see what happens by the end of today.