How to Make Easy Coffee Filter Butterflies and Flowers

Finally my first how to craft video! Thank you to everyone who has been so patient while I have figured out my Flip! Leave a comment let me know what you think and what types of crafts you would like to see in the future.

Crafty Nation Site Warming Party

Let's get #crafty! I am going to be a panelist for tonight's #crafty party on Twitter!

Join me tonight at 9 pm est on Twitter for a great site warming party for Crafty Nation! Crafty Nation is a great place for crafters to come together and share their ideas and show off their work!

If you like crafts, want to learn more about crafts, love winning prizes, or just love a good Twitter party, then you should be there! The hashtag for this party is #crafty.

You can go to Resourceful Mommy's site here to learn more about the party and the prizes that are up for grabs.

You can go here to learn more about the crafty panelists for tonight's party (myself included!)

We are going to have a great night, hope to see you there :)

Homemade Green Grocery Bags

A few months ago a came across a pattern to make "green" grocery bags from left over material and it has now become an obsession! I made 16 of them for Halloween for everyone to use as trick or treat bags and I am now making them for everyone for Christmas. They are really easy to make and everyone loves them.

The pattern calls for a front pocket, but I don't put one on, instead I embroider the front panel of the bag (when you are making a lot it goes faster without the pocket). If you don't have an embroidery machine, you can just leave the pocket on or do some sort of iron on picture.

Here is a photo of one of the Halloween bags:

Here are photos of the bags I am making for Christmas. I was going to personalize the embroidery according to each person's interests, but that got to be too much, so I decided to go with simple monograms for everyone.

I did make special bags for the teachers.

I did a lot of my sewing the weekend after Thanksgiving while visiting family in Erie. My cousin and I sewed while my mom and aunt watched the kids! I was great. The men in the family were facinated by my embroidery machine. It was really funny. When my uncle realized how much I could do with my machine, he came out of the cuboard with a handful of shirts he wanted my to embroider with his name and business name!Here is the link to the blog where I found the pattern http://www.annthegran.com/cs/blogs/memory-book/archive/2008/09/05/designer-grocery-bags-who-d-have-thought.aspx

Someday I am going to have time to actually make a few for myself!

If you have any questions, leave me a comment and I will get back to you. Happy sewing :)