I won something!

Wow, so much for my goal of at least one post a month.

Really I have not been feeling super creative lately and as a result have not done a whole lot of sewing.  I have been assembling some materials for a bunch of future projects.

One thing I am super excited about is I recently found out a won a contest!  Girl Charlee recently had a draw for some gift cards and I won first place which was a $100.00 gift card.  I am super excited as I have been eyeing their fabric for a while now but the shipping costs have been holding me back.   Now I can get a nice sampling of their fabrics for free!

I have been especially interested in these three prints.  I am thinking of some type of shirt for the birds, leggings for the owls and maybe a dress of some sort for the retro wallpaper. (You can click on the pictures of you want to go to the listing for these fabrics.)

Unfortunately I do not yet own a serger so I still have to use the zigzag stitch on my sewing machine but it did an okay job on my last knit dress I sewed.

I also picked up some bar towels this weekend which I sewed into some cute tea towels.  I got the idea from this website and I thought they would be really fun to make.

Are these not cool?

I am pretty chuffed with how well they turned out.  And the star at the top is my first foray into applique work.  Go zigzag stitch again.  I think I may even have the tension thing finally worked out on the sewing machine.
 

I have been checking out the thrift stores again and I have a bunch of vintage buttons which I want to use so these babies will hang off the oven instead of always being all bunched up and messy looking.

Random Rupert

Recently we were invited for an afternoon out of Rupert by some friends of ours.  We went to Port Edward, Rainbow Lake and drove all the way out to the Skeena river.

The bottom photo is at a rest stop about 10 minutes out of Prince Rupert which has a nice walking trail.  I loved the look of the water in the muskeg.  Apparently this is the stuff that gives horses foot rot and as a result no one keeps horses here.

I also thought the white moss that grew on the trees was pretty neat too. 

On a random side note, who decided it was a good idea to lock the public washrooms on a major highway during winter is pretty dumb.  The rest stop we stopped at before turning around back to Prince Rupert has their drop in the hole toilet locked down for the winter.  People who i am assuming, just could not wait had instead been going to the washroom around the side of the building instead.  That is really nasty.  People need rest stops no matter what time of year it is. Locking them seems kind of stupid.