By Lisa Gutierrez on 08/16/2010 
Look at what I finished up, today! I crocheted the front on Friday and it sat on my loveseat all weekend. I kept throwing ideas around about completing the pillow. They’d land on uninterested ears (my husband, my kids, etc) but it wasn’t until last night that I decided to use one of my favorite vintage pillow cases as the back.
I liked this idea because I could use the pillow’s natural hem as the envelope-back hem. Less sewing! I used a brown paper bag to cut a circle pattern. I marked off half the circle and two thirds of it. I cut out my pieces, pinned them to the crocheted circle and hand-sewed it together. The seam isn’t perfect and my [foam] pillow form is kind of hard, but I really like the end result!
This orange packs a punch and the flowered back is just lovely! It’s the same fabric I used to make my last camera strap cover.
 
I dig this fabric so much, I couldn’t just toss the scraps. Instead, I made more buttons:
  
If you love them, you could buy them from my Etsy shop, here. They would qualify for my BOGO 50% off sale!
By Lisa Gutierrez on 05/12/2010
Yesterday, I made a big dent in sorting/packing/purging. The best part about it isn’t that I’m that much closer to being done. No. It’s that I’ve been able to unearth a few projects that just got lost in the shuffle. One of them was my English paper-piecing project. I originally intended this to be blanket-sized, but when I saw it yesterday, I thought it would look great on a canvas, as a wall decoration. When I picked it up this morning, though, I wanted a pillow. I wanted to be able to cuddle it. So, I got to work. I finished up the corner hexes and then I quilted it to a piece of cotton batting (with embroidery floss). I used some cloth napkins to make an envelope back and sewed it up, early this afternoon. It’s pretty.
By Lisa Gutierrez on 08/24/2009  One of the items on my son’s [pre-kindergarten] school supply list was a “10.5” x 5.5″ natural canvas pencil bag” and the only place I could find one was a supply distributor online. Since school starts TOMORROW (commence internal freak-out), I decided to just make one, yesterday. I was going to wing it and make a regular zippered pouch, but I ran across this tutorial and simply adjusted the fabric dimensions. So, now, instead of a 10.5″ x 5.5″ pencil bag, Nathan has a 6″ x 11″ bag. And that should be enough!
Tomorrow at 7:50ish, I’ll probably be shedding a few tears as I say goodbye to Nate for 3 hours. It isn’t really the separation that’s getting me, but the simple fact that he’s no longer a toddler. He’s a boy, now! A new chapter is beginning in our lives. It’s bittersweet, really.
By Lisa Gutierrez on 02/20/2009
I made this back in September, I believe. I am rearranging my craft area and I came across a tote bag and this was in it! no, there wasn’t any money in it, just my tiny sansa clip mp3 player. I should take up cross-stitching again.
the yellow fabric is, I believe, linen. It came form a set of a napkins I thrifted.
By Lisa Gutierrez on 02/17/2009
Nathan’s monkey (left) was made in July 07. I started Andrew’s while I was pregnant, before I got hit with nausea and laziness. He doesn’t have arms or ears.
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