The Snoopy Sheet

Look at what my mom found for me. I am so excited. Yes, I know it is just an old sheet, but it has so many possibilities. Because it is a little worn, I will use it to make a quilt, just a lap quilt, throw around the house type thing. I have two ideas for the quilt though. Because the design is so cute, my first thought is to try and keep as much of the sheet together as possible. In other words, use it as the top of the quilt. My second thought though is to cut out the characters and applique them to quilt squares and then make the quilt. I am leaning towards the second idea. This would allow me to only use the best parts of the sheet. I can make the quilt more colorful or even a denim rag quilt. The quilt will withstand more, and last longer. On the other side though, it will take longer to make. But, for such cute Peanuts designs the work and time is worth it. Unfortunately, this is one of those projects that gets tucked it the box labeled "someday". Isn't Someday after Wednesday??

The Dog in the Mouse's House

While on vacation, we stopped at Wal-mart to pick up a few things and of course, even though I am 2000 plus miles from home, I had to check out the fabric department. To my excitement, left sitting all alone on the clearance rack, the only piece of Christmas fabric left, was about 3 yards of this years Snoopy Christmas fabric. At my local Wal-mart, this Snoopy fabric was completely sold before Thanksgiving. I quickly carried the bolt to the cutting table and ask for every inch. The bolt was marked $1.98/yd, but when the associate scanned the tag it rang up at $0.99/yd. I was even more excited. Still on a high from such a find, I talked my husband into stopping at the next Wal-mart we ran into and bought another 3 yd for $0.99/yd. My only reasoning for this is that when in central Florida, the mouse is king. Don't get me wrong, I like Mickey Mouse as well as many of the Disney characters and movies and even Disneyland and Disneyworld. But my heart belongs to the dog, Snoopy. My husband thinks I am nuts. Of all the souvenirs from Florida that I could choose to pack in the limited space in my suitcase, I chose Snoopy fabric.

Dad's Doings

As I have mentioned before, my mom is an excellent seamstress, but the talent in the family does not stop with her. Beside his wood work, Dad is pretty creative with a latch hook. When my parents were here, I showed them the bathroom that I am decorating in Snoopy's. So, Dad made me this toilet seat cover to help me decorate. It is so cool. I would have him make rugs to match, but he has made me rugs before and I hate to put them to the floor. I don't want them stepped on. But, we have already talked about different Snoopy patterns and different Peanut characters he can put on more toilet seat covers.

The Corn Shirt

Several months ago, while visiting my parents, I ran across this corn print fabric in Mom's stash. My rusty creative wheel turned when I saw the piece, so I told Mom to make her a shirt out of it and bring it when she came to see me. She looked at me like I was crazy, but trusted the rusty wheel. She had only purchased enough of the material for a front apron so had to do some creative piecing to get a shirt from the corn piece. While my parents were here visiting, we embroidered the Snoopy on the shirt. My rusty wheel thinks it turned out pretty cute, if it says so itself.

Sewing with Mom

My parents came for a visit this last couple of weeks. We had a great time. We went and seen so much, but, of course, we found some time to sew, embroidery mostly. My mother is an excellent seamstress, but do to time, we purchased the shirts and did the embroidery. We had a blast. Mom collects nativity's, so two shirts with that design. I picked the Snoopy design for her third shirt. I told Mom that my only rule about embroidering or even sewing for someone is that they wear the finished item. Don't hang it in the closet and "save it for special". I expect her to wear out these two nativity shirts this Christmas season and we will made new ones for next year.

We did not forget Dad either.