Things You Should Know About: Free Pattern Fridays at Craftsy

A while back I blogged about how much I loved Craftsy. I still love it and it keeps getting better all the time.

They have a blog as well and they always have a post called "Free Pattern Friday" were, as you can guess you get FREE patterns on Friday! Yay!

These patterns can range from sewing to cooking and they are all free: the only downside is you MUST get them on Friday or say good-bye to free.

Check out this weeks Free Pattern Friday

Mom's Quilt

I just wanted to share a quilt that I have finished. I made it for my mother. She really likes Sun Bonnet Sue so I decided that the perfect gift would be a quilt with Sun Bonnet Sue on it. I made it out of yellows and oranges and then had it quilted by a lady in Boise. On the back is a vintage sheet that found at a thrift store in my mother's home town. I hope you enjoy it as much as my mother and I do.

This is my favorite Sun Bonnet Sue! I choose to make all the characters have different skin tones. My mom really like that!

 This is a picture of the binding. I decided to use a decorative stitch.

This is what the back of the quilt looks like

 I used a vintage sheet for the backing.

Needle Storage

While attending an "I love to sew" club meeting I was introduced to another awesome idea for storage. A lady had taken a bead box and put her packets of needles into the individual compartments and labeled the compartments according to which needle was in which compartment.

Then using binder clips she put them on the needles she was currently using so that she could tell them apart and not use all her new ones.

I thought that it was a brilliant idea so I whipped one up myself using an old pony bead box. Works like a charm!