Curley's Crafts and Creations

One of my dearest friends from working at Clear Creek had a baby shower this last Saturday. My sister and I went in on a gift. Here is what we did. I made the carseat cover/nursing blanket. Here are the pictures


This one is blurry, sorry.

Then I made a matching wipee case.


I still had fabric so I made a diapee.


I loved the way they turned out. They are so easy to make, and there was NO pattern. I just improvised. If anyone is interested in knowing how to make them, or wants me to make them one, (You can pay me or get me the matterial you want and I will make for FREE:) )let me know.

My next creation was redoing my glider. I recieved this free before moving back here from Virginia. It was a little worn out and I thought I would redo it. While still in Virginia, I did the blue cover, (don't judge it, It was HAND sewn).
Here is the glider without any cushions.

Here is the foot rest, the original (no redo)

and the bottom cushion

Here is the foot rest after first redo, (this is actually just before I took it all apart to do the newest redo. As you can see there is stains, as for the reason I wanted to redo again)

here is the bottom cushion with the first redo. Same as the foot rest, there are stains.

and the back cushion in the first redo. It was too big and looked funny, but hey for hand sewing I think it was not too bad.

Here is the new cover. This is sewn together ready to do the finishing touches. All I did was take the cushions and trace on the "wrong" side of the fabric for my "pattern". I then made 3 inch stripes and sewed it together.

I decided, with help from Nicole, that I was going to velcro it shut so that I could take the cover off and WASH it if stuff got on it. Here I am sewing the velcro on.

the velcro sewed on

I used the old green cushion then added some batting into the new cushion for more fluff, also with having velcro I can stuff/refluff when it starts to get flat :D

Here it is half way velcroed shut. Not too bad.

Now it is shut and you are looking at the bottom of the back cushion.

Then I took some material and stapled it to the foot stool. I did add more batting on the foot stool too. I had just nailed the blue material, but it came out. My dad had a staple gun and so I had him help me.

Here is the glider with the cushions back on! LOVE IT!! It is nice and fluffy, and looks so much better than the blue that I had, especially since the blue had a lot of stains. It also gives some spunk to the chair. I had left over material so I am going to make a couple of pillows to go on my black couch/loveseat and chair.