shoe makeover

Sorry about the lack of posts...
we have been traveling, and I let the blogging slip.

:(

Anyway, I am back with another post!

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So....my mom just gave me an old dress of hers. The fabric was beautiful! 

and...

I had this OLD pair of canvas shoes.

 Let's just say they looked their age. Which isn't saying much.

They were practically falling apart.

So I decided to try covering them with fabric, a technique which I saw a while ago.

I cut two scraps of the old dress, one for each shoe. 

Then, I pulled out the old faithful Elmer's glue and started in, coating the whole shoe with glue, sticking the cloth on, and coating some more.  Then I cut edges and folded the fabric into the shoe's hole.

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 After a night or two, they finally dried. 

 :P

Yes, these shoes won't hold up long in the rain. 

Actually, they didn't hold up long just walking around on a sunny day. 

But if you used Tacky, (which I didn't happen to have) it might be a different story!

(you can see in this picture how dirty and old the shoes were...)

Anyway, they were fun for a while.

If you ever need a different colored pair of shoes and don't want to spend the money, try this!

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hearts

A month or two ago, I stumbled across this blog.

I thought the little stuffed hearts looked like a fun project to try.

So I made a couple.

I gave the results to Elise and my mom for Valentines Day.

The first one (which I gave to my mom) looks a lot like one of the hearts on the blog...

It's hanging from our curtains now.
:)

I gave the second one to Elise.
It was focused more on embroidery.

I think I like it better than the first one!
:)

They both liked my gift to them!

Not sure when I'll post again...
I've been pretty busy with soccer!

pencil case

Here's the sewing project! 

I made a....

Which you probably already gathered from the title.

:P

I found the tutorial (here) for it.

I liked it a lot,

and it looked fairly easy.

So I made one.

Sadly, I was too busy making it to photograph it.

That happens a lot.

:S

I'll just post the finished pouch.

The zipper I used was a bit too short.

:(

So there's a little hole right on both sides of the case.

But you can't really see it. 

 

I stayed up a bit late one night finishing the quilting. 

Which I don't think my siblings were too happy about.

(the sewing machine is loud...)

But the quilting part was fun.

;)

I have never seen batting here, so I got creative and used a bit of a fleece blanket, which seemed to work!

 

The inside is lined with one of the fabrics I used on the outside.

My favorite. 

:)

(the stripes weren't very forgiving with the quilting, though. By the end, the inside looked more like zigzags than stripes... :P)

Anyway,

I'm really happy with it, and it's useful.

(a quality which many of my projects lack...)
:P