Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Ribbon Storage

Let me start off by saying this is NOT my original idea! I saw a post on SewForum from someone who made something like this and I knew immediately I had to do it!! I have so much ribbon it's shameful!! I only hope one day I can have a studio for all of my sewing/crafts and have a few of these ribbon holders, but for now, I will stick with just the one.

I am going to try and describe what we did, so here we go!


We started off by purchasing this 2 foot by 4 foot piece of peg board from Lowes. We also got 1 10 foot plastic gutter and ended up having to go back and get one more.

I spread some brown paper bags on my dining room table and roughly taped them together so I could do my Mod Podge on the peg board.

I got these papers at Hobby Lobby in the clearance section. They were 6/$1. I ended up getting 10 pieces just incase I messed anything up, but luckily I didn't and only ended up using 8.
My goofy little girl watching excitedly!
This was my very first Mod Podge project and it was pretty straight forward. Spread it on the paper, spread it on the peg board then stick the paper to the peg board. Allow to dry for 20 min and then do a coat over the top!

I did one piece at a time and then when the last piece had dried for 20 min, I did the single coat on top over the whole thing. There was a little bit of overhang on the sides so I just too my craft knife and trimmed it up.
Now enters the Husband! He took the gutters and cut them into 2 foot sections with his miter saw. Then he marked each gutter piece where it lined up with the holes on the pegboard and predrilled the holes.
Then we screwed each piece of gutter to the pegboard!
This next part was just a bit of trial and error, but we ended up backing the pegboard with some piece of foam board to keep it off the wall some. I hot glued the piece of foam board to the back and then we poked the screws through the foam that were being used to anchor the entire thing to the wall. Did that make sense? I hope so.
Husband had already marked on the wall where the screws would line up an put wall anchors in, then screwed the entire thing to the wall! and...TADA! A neat ribbon holder!
We put it behind the door to my craft room and because the wall is set back a little bit, the door still opens completely and I was able to utilize an otherwise useless space!
I love it! It think it's so neat!
(it appears crooked in the pics, but it's not...I don't think!?)
And just because my husband said I had to..this is really only a fraction of the amount of ribbon I have. I could probably fill up 5 or so of these. Sad I know, but maybe one day I can have a entire wall dedicated to ribbons storage! haha! =)

This was such a fun project to do with my husband! He's so great when it comes to my crafts!

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Hooded Towel

I did it! Yay!! I have wanted to make a hooded towel for months and today I finally did! I have to say, I might get addicted. It was so easy and the possibilities are endless!

I got the idea from a fellow crafter. This chick is AMAZING! She has a tutorial on her blog:


Seriously, go to her site and have a look around, you will die! She is so talented!! Oh and she has 3 of the cutest kids!!

Ok, well here is my first Hooded Towel, and my little one modeling!





Mermaid is from Planet Applique

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Sweet Turtle Shirt

With the input I received on a previous post I tried the poly mesh stabilizer. I actually ended up hooping the poly mesh and tear away, making sure the poly mesh was closest to the shirt. I am pleased with the outcome, but it still needs to go through the wash to see how it looks.


It's just so cute!

Applique is from Lynnie Pinnie and the font is "Itty Bitty" from 8CAAP