Finding Time

Oh, how that bright yellow school bus brightens my day. I will surely be missing it when the kids have off on Monday, but in the meantime, when I am not cleaning or cooking or doing a bajillion loads of laundry (first time I have been caught up since before Christmas!) I have been sneaking in some crafty time. Or making time, really. People ask me where I "find the time" to do things. No one finds time. We all have the same 24 hours in a day. (But, really, if you find a big ol' bucket of time laying around somewhere I would love to have some extra.)

OK. Back to my little Sneak Peek Friday showing you the crafty things I have been working on...

I used THIS tutorial to make a little hat for Grace!

Well, I actually made three, because the first one was too big and then I made an even smaller one for a baby from church (it just needs its flower yet).

I did make some adjustments from the pattern for each one I made- like extra rows and stuff. The hats were easy.  It was more challenging to get her to hold still for a picture (hence shots of me holding her near a window and pointing the camera backwards).

The other day, I made a mini-wallet from THIS pattern. It went pretty smoothly and is a great pattern! Something small and quick that I could complete in one sitting- just the sewing therapy I needed...

I didn't have the guts to do all different patterns of fabric, so I just went simple with two. It is for my niece's belated birthday gift and I embroidered her initial on there, too.

Besides this stuff, I am making some baskets and working on my nephew's quilt (which I can't show you because my sister reads my blog and I want to surprise her). That quilt has involved an awful lot of seam ripping this week. But, worse than seam ripping, is losing the seam-ripper (I do that ALL the time) and having to rip stitches out with a pin. So, YAY for seam-rippers!  I hope I can find it soon- it is probably hiding somewhere with all that extra time.

Hoping to link up over at StudioJRU!