Three Kitchen Fairies

Giveaway

How about a giveaway??This little space brings me much happiness as it keeps growing. In the past weeks I started a Facebook and Twitter accounts for my blog. Wow! I realized I've been missing so much!!

For this giveaway I'm offering: an apple potholder (original 3KF design,) a Michael Miller Pink polkadot fat quarter, a Kona Solid fat quarter (Celery), and some ribbon trims, as well as a pattern of your choice from my Etsy store.

Here's the deal. I want to expand friendships and find more "likes" to like, blogs to read, and tweets to enjoy. To win this giveaway, leave a comment with a suggestion: it can be either a Facebook like, or a blog, or someone you think it's interesting to follow on Twitter. That's one entry for you!! But it doesn't end there! Follow me on Twitter or Facebook or both for one or two extra entries to this giveaway. You can find both buttons on my side bar. Let me know in your comment how many entries you should have. I promise you won't regret it as I have a full month planned ahead of interesting posts to share with you all. Deal??

I'll leave the comments section open until Tuesday July 5th, right after I have my morning coffee I'll pick a winner, and I'll announce it here. Good luck, and thank you for participating.

Volkswagen pillow.

 

I finished this new pillow last night. And I've been patiently waiting for the moment to get a picture and share this pillow with you. My brother's birthday a couple of weeks ago, I didn't know what to get him, and since he just moved into his new place I decided to make something homey for him. He loves Volskwagen bettles. We actually learned to drive in one of these. We were very young: he was 10, and I was 12 years old. My mom taught us, and we loved to drive around the park that was right across the street from our home. Our street didn't have that much traffic, and those were the times of the Generation X kids.

 

 

I used a picture I found on the web and turned it into a embroidery pattern. I loved working the details, such as the interiors and the shadow bellow the car. New and recycled fabrics, and a simple log cabing pattern helped me create the 18 by 18 in. pillow front. Can you tell which are new, and which are recycled?? The back is light weight denim, that fabric was new...

 

I was intimidated by the idea of sewing a zipper in the back, but still I went ahead. I used this tutorial , and I have to say it was pretty easy. I stuffed the whole thing with an 18 x 18 in. pillow form, and ta- da!!

I love how it turned out. I hope he likes it as well.

One last note: I started a list of tutorials I've used in the past on my sidebar. I'll keep listing any good tutorials I use in the future as a way to thank the crafters, and quilters that shared their skills, and time with the rest of the community. Thank you ladies!!

 

Collections.

 

Last weekend, while we were is St. Louis, MO, my mom left a baggy with lots of pretty vintage buttons for me by the porch.

 

 

 

I inspected them, and arranged them in different ways. The more I look at them, the more I think it wouldn’t make sense to rip them apart from their little vintage cards they are attached to. I love the graphic quality of these “vintage button” cards: the typography, the ink, the paper; even the creases, and the time damage quality make them specially treasurable. They simply wouldn’t be the same without the buttons on them, don’t you think??  

 

Next collection: towers of books around the house. We’re having some pipes fixing in the living room, and a couple of books cases needed to be emptied and moved away from the wall. . I thought it was a good occasion to take some pictures.

 

My last collection for today: A small collection of pretty fabrics.  I got them last week from one of my favorite esty fabric stores. They're even more beautiful in real life. I wish I could spend the rest of the day, petting them, and planning all the little quilting projects that I have in mind. But no, not really… I have to tons of stuff to do :(

Hope to be back soon!

Hair bands, and ribbon flower tutorials.

 

We're getting ready for our first road trip of the season. We're going to our nephew's wedding, and the girls have their parts in the ceremony. All the preparation and the anticipation to the grand day are filling us with anxiety, and happiness for the new couple. One of the things I planned to make for them was their hair bands. And the wedding motif is peacock feathers as the bride-to-be requested it. I gathered my materials and confidently searched the internet for tutorials. I was so excited to find so many tutorials about hair bands, feathers, and flower ribbons.

 

 
 

This here is the tutorial I used to put the feathers together. It was incredibly easy to follow. I found some tutorials on ribbon flowers that helped me to overcome my fear to the feather/flower head piece: here, and here. I was so hooked up on the flower making tutorials that I kept on looking and found this other awesome post with felt flowers, wire flowers,and button flowers. I love them all!!  

I love how my hair bands turned out! This was my first time trying this kind of project, I found it quite easy to work with the hot glue gun. Making pretty hai rbands can easily become another addiction, I'm glad I have a bunch of girls that will wear them gladly.

 

Disconnection

 

I put together a bunch of tiny scraps, some are leftovers from other projects, and the others pieces are from recycled t-shirts that I keep for backing patchwork projects. I cut, and sew a little, then I go check the dinner cooking on the stove. I’m back to the sewing table. I get up again and check the computer, don’t you do the same??

 

I’m almost done with my second jacket.  The last hand stitches of theses jackets come to me with a bunch of memories of our friendship and they start cascading like pictures through my mind. The way she looked when we were in third grade. The way she talked, her funny overrated jokes, the scary ways in which she told us about the horror movies that we weren’t allow to watch in elementary school. I remember that in our early teens, I secretly envied her because she got to wear a bra while I was still flat as an ironing table.  Ten years of memories came to my mind and hit me as if a bucket of cold water was dumped on me by surprise; ten years in which we went from sharing as classmates to being best friends at times, to growing up as teenagers, and to even having a crush on the same guy.

 

And then to come to the conclusion that life is such a beautiful and fragile gift. I wonder when was the last time I saw you?? I wish I had one more chance to talk to you and laugh out loud about all those years. I raise my hand and wave to you, so long my friend. Now rest in peace.

I just learned that she passed way.