Super Quick Lamp Shade Updo (Tutorial)

 

This lamp shade updo literally cost me nothing and took 15 minutes to do! I think the longest thing was waiting for the glue gun to warm up!

I started with this awesome lamp a friend gave to me because it didn't sell at her yard sale.

I cut up 2 inch strips of muslin from my scrap pile and ran it through my machine to ruffle it up. (Go here for a tutorial on the super fast way to gather fabric.)

 Then I hot glued it to the top and bottom of the shade. This covered up a bunch of holes and stains that was on the shade. The rest of it was in pretty good condition, I just had to run a wet cloth over it.
 

 How adorable is that! It is super sassy but oh so simple. Just what I like!

Simple Tresures on Studio 5

Here is a link to Studio 5 where they talk about the Simple Treasures Boutique that starts tomorrow. Check out my quilts!

Olive Circles and Flowers

This quilt was so fun to make. I don't usually use theses kind of colors and patterns but it was so fun to break out of my comfort zone! I even went a step further and free motion quilted the flowers on the squares. Love it!

It is available in my Etsy Shop for purchase.

Quilt for Andre

This quilt I made especially for the Andre's Angels Foundation. For More information about Andre and the event they are having in October please visit their website.

Adorable

 These two were pretty fun to make. I usually find myself at the fabric store staring at the fabric wondering what I am going to do with this adorable stuff I find. Then I come home and find a pattern or make something up. It is like the fabric decides what it wants to do.

This one is going to be for an friend of mine who is about to have her first girl and she needs a dose of bright pink!

This one was two jelly rolls that found their way together. It was fun to come up with!
 

Even the baby loves it!

Lately...

 Lately I have been just doing some smaller projects and taking a break from boutique season, but I think I am going to have to start gearing up for fall boutique season pretty soon.

This is what I have made recently...

This is a quilt block my mom requested to go in a frame. It is the first time I quilted with triangles. I think it turned out pretty good!

Miss Angela works with my husband and this is an apron I made her for Administrative Assistants day. It is frilly and fancy, just like her! She took this lovely picture for me. Thanks Angela!

Found!

Last year I did a lovely quilt for a lovely lady in Europe. I found her blog today and look what I found here.

http://chickbassknitknacks.blogspot.com/2011/09/i-aspire-to-quilting

So cool!