3 week long curtains

I have been working on some curtains for a very special man in my life. These curtains took me three weeks to complete, no joke. I have made several sets of curtains for our house. However, the curtains in my house were much simpler. I completed them the same day they were started.


Sunee's room

Our room...yum chocolate brown

The dining room

I love love the pattern of the curtains in the dining room

These Toy Story 3 curtains were more complex and required a lot more thought and planning. They are made out of a set of sheets, fitted and flat. My curtain journey started with me taking the elastic out of the fitted sheet. This is a long and tedious process. But after that was done, I had two nice pieces of fabric to work with. After cutting the main pieces, I went to work on the straps. Each strap took forever (15-20 min). I needed 16 straps to complete the curtains, you can do the math.

A whole lot of measuring, ironing and pinning later, they were finished. I definitely think they were worth all of the time and extra work. I was impressed with the final product, and so was my nephew.

all scrunched up...cute huh?

I was recently talking to a friend who has an interest in starting to sew. I was explaining to her that curtains, (not these kind) are a good thing to start sewing because curtains are a bunch of straight lines. Also. that curtains really show you that most projects are about 20% sewing, and 80% of a project is measuring, cutting, folding, ironing and pinning.

So now I am so excited about moving on to some Christmas gift making. I hope to make Sunee Mae a couple dresses to open on Christmas morning, including her "Christmas dress"!

pumpkin deliciousness

No new sewing projects :( but I did make a yummy recipe that I would like to share with you. Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls (recipe here). The recipe calls for yeast. J and I have been doing a lot of pizza dough making. I've been feeling the need to move on to an "intermediate" recipe. So after I mixed all the ingredients,(including the yeast) I had to let it rise for at least an hour. I only have the patience for the minimal amount of time, so after the timer went off, I quickly moved on to the next step.  I Smeared the cinnamon goodness all over rolled out dough.



all rolled up!





Then to the best part. I cut them all up using a thread cutting technique. It is so easy, and cuts perfect rolls. Put a piece of long thread under the roll and cross them over and continue to pull until the thread slices all the way through.

It was actually quite fun!(I'm such a nerd) After I cut them all, you had to let them rise again in the pan for another hour.



sunee looking on with approval

Since I was prepping the night before (because who has 2 hours in the morning to make this), I just popped them in the fridge (only letting them rise for 15 min.). This was later discovered to be a mistake. The next morning I popped them in the oven for 25 minutes, and made the cream cheese icing.

yum!

So out came the rolls, smelling and looking amazing. Here was the problem. Because I didn't let them rise again long enough before putting them in the fridge, they were not as fluffy as J and I would have like them to be. They still were good, just not perfect.  I'm planning on making them again for Thanksgiving brunch, hopefully I will have more patience then.

So I am working on a sewing project that has been taking a lot longer than I thought, hopefully I will post the finished project before Thanksgiving.

quick baby dress

A couple of days ago I made a cute and easy little dress for my best friends new baby. It was super easy to make, I just made it up as I went along.

I found this purple fleece at a garage sale. I got it and 4 other pieces of fabric for $3! Gotta love those garage sales. Won't this look so cute over a solid long sleeve shirt? I will make some for Sunee for sure.