The answer to crafter's block?

No internet! That's the answer I swear!

So I've been in a crafting slump lately. Oh there are plenty of projects I would like to do and I have the supplies for several already. Just no motivation. I'm also one that prefers instant gratification and being able to start and finish something in one sitting. If I keep getting interrupted, I lose my mojo on a project or my vision of it fades or changes.

 

So yesterday morning after getting the big kids off to school I sit down with my cup of coffee and bad news, my internet was down. Crap. Usually the morning is my quiet time when I check email and read my blogs. That was a no-go. But Big B and Mr K were still sleeping and I was wide awake. What else could there possibly be to do??

 

CRAFT! I whipped up a few keychains and a couple rosette necklaces and just random rosettes for future use. I've been a rosette making fool, lemme tell ya! Plus I threw together a little sunglasses pocket thing for Big B's uncle.

 

So I'm all happy with myself snapping pics here and there to show off post about and share with my lovely readers. I transfer the pics to my computer and sit down ready to type up a post and my screen freezes up and then the computer just won't power back on, then I get the blue screen. Yuck.. 

 

Long story short I think my hard drive has finally given up. So I plug in a spare hard drive to at least be able to access the internet and do a few things on the computer, but I have none of my pictures, none of my photo-editing software, and for some reason I can only use IE6 with this one, double YUCK. Yes I know I can download Picasa and Piknik or whatever, but I'm pretty dang loyal to Photoshop, it's what I know.

 

So no pics today people, I'm sorry. As soon as I find out for sure whether my other hard drive can be fixed {cross your fingers for me please} I will have some posted for you!

 

Have a great day everyone!!

 

 

I've finally got a button!

So finally I've made myself a blog button. Took me long enough huh?

What do yall think?

Good?

Needs some work?

Any suggestions?

Would you put this on your blog?

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Carseat recover - Sis in law owes me big!

Okay so my sister-in-law really wants a camo theme for her little boy that should be here in March and asked me awhile back if I could do a recover for her carseat. I put it off and put it off, thinking it would be way too hard and I would just screw it up. Finally over the past weekend I figured I better get started on it. Might as well get it done and out of the way and her kids have a habit of arriving a little ahead of schedule...

So here it is...

This was actually alot easier than I imagined it would be.. Time consuming yes, and I did end up using my seam ripper alot.. Give me a break though, this is my first one. Too bad Mr. K had an ugly carseat because Momma thought this would be too hard to do, I'm sorry little man...

Basically just took the original cover apart (which was actually quite nice and in my color theme for Mr. K) and replaced that fabric with the camo and minky.

On the canopy I was able to reuse the brown from the original saving myself some fabric and cutting.

I even finished the underside with binding covering all those seams..

This little neck pad thing was even easy to do, although I didn't replace the snaps. The brown is from the original and where it snaps onto the camo piece I just punched a little hole in the fabric so it would still snap.

The only thing I don't like about it is the tan binding on the main piece. Somehow the original binding ended up being too short once I started putting it back on. How that happened I do not know???? I didn't add anything extra.. No extra padding or bulk, it's gotta be safe for baby.. So I made a quick trip to Walmart this evening to get more but they were out of brown, no brown whatsoever.. I suppose I could've waited and gone to Hancock's tomorrow but I was ready to get this thing done..

Oh well sis will still love it, she better cause I ain't redoing this thing!!

So what do you think?

I'm linking up.. These are the linky parties I like to go to..

I don't like leather..

Actually I do love leather, I'm just not a fan of working with it.. That's what I've been working with the past 2 days..

Wow it seems like forever since I've posted, I'm sorry about that. I've been doing a few things here and there just nothing too creative. So I thought I would post about a few of the other things I work on from time to time..

I've also been making some patches for Big B and his buddies for their vests. I swear men are way more picky than women.. I redesigned several of them before they were finally happy, and these were just name patches and worded patches, nothing fancy..

Sorry if the language on a couple of these offend any of my readers, they are biker patches though and some people want those patches.

A few for the ladies..

Of course the one the dog decided to chew on was my name, hmm you think he's trying to say something??

Back to the leather thing though.. If you can avoid it, I highly recommend not attempting to hand sew leather. Or more specifically, several layers of thick leather. It's a pain in the wazoo and it sucks. And I don't have a thimble so I don't know how many times my fingers slipped and I stabbed myself with the needle..

I've needed to shorten my chaps for quite awhile now but have been putting it off, I don't get to ride all that often and it's really not a big deal with them being how they were. But one of Big B's friends is short like me and had the same problem with his chaps and asked if I could somehow take them in a bit. Well you know me.. I said I'd give it a try. It wasn't too bad for the most part. My machine could handle most of it, although I would highly recommend a leather needle. I have one. somewhere.. Couldn't find it so I just used a heavy duty needle and it was fine..

After I fixed his, I figured I would fix mine since I had the needle on the machine already..

See that little dotted section on either side of the pocket? That's what needed to come out.

But I didn't want to lose the pocket, plus I didn't want to tear them up trying to get the rivet thing out. I just took out the seams around the pocket and folded it back out of my way..

Fold in half RST then stitch.. 

The cut the looped part..

Fold both inside seams to one side and stitch it down. I got a little crooked on one side, but once it's all done it's not too noticeable.

A little handsewing was needed on that part because those layers at the edges were just too think for my machine.

Now just had to reattach the pocket, I handsewed all of it. It was a slightly easier because the stitch holes were already there, but going through the seam I made was not easy with my cheapo little needle..

I did have a little bit of company, Mr. K decided he wanted to be up and play at 11 pm.. Please excuse the drool mess on his shirt, we *might* have some teeth soon!

 All done!

Sorry bout this pic, but have you ever tried taking a picture of your thigh with your not dominant hand?? Not so easy..

 Anyways I hope you enjoyed this post, have a great day everyone!!

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