Giveaway Winners and MANLY sewing!

Thanks to everyone who entered my giveaway. I have picked the winners! THREE winners listed at the end of this post.

Now for some MANLY sewing! I recently discovered a new store - Whipstitch. There is a storefront in the Atlanta area, which I MUST go check out. But there is an online store too. I bought some MANLY fabric to try and make something MANLY for my hubby for Father's Day.

Ok - nuts and bolts on fabric? Too cool. And I swear it's cooler in real life.

I ordered three fabrics and actually squealed when I got them. SO pretty. There are so many cool fabrics in this shop. I love all three I ordered more than I did when I saw them online, and MUST buy more. I am giddy about visiting the shop!

Anyway, what to make for the love of my life?

A potholder of course!

(another blurry Blackberry photo - which actually might be making my work look better? Blurry may be my wonky stitching friend!)

See, men cook too. My husband is great at Shake n Bake and Mac N Cheese. And we have to protect his fingers when he is channelling his inner gourmet. My tutorial for making a potholder is here. Although this time, I made the potholder square and tried to square up the corners. They aren't awesome, but practice makes perfect and I'll keep working on it. I am however, pretty happy with the square quilting I stitched. I just used the presser foot as the guide and it worked out great. The backing and bias tape binding are an unbleached cotton muslin.

Also for Father's Day, from the NBC store I bought hubby this hat:

(He loves this show -Friday Night Lights)

And some tickets to see a comedian we both like. AND - he's playing golf Saturday and being taken out to breakfast Sunday morning. (After he finds his silly TP message, haha) He's a wonderful Father and he deserves to have a nice Father's Day weekend.

Now to the giveaway!

I decided when I posted the giveaway that I would pick 3 people to win. The first person to comment, the last person to comment, and one random. I think more winners is more fun!

So...the first comment was this:

CupCakeCutie said...
very sweet of you. Loved the picture of your little girl. I just finished a ton of destashing projects so some fabric or ribbon would be cool. It's always fun to see what other people pick out.

The last was this:

Lil' Miss Handy Pants said...
If I won I would want YOU to pick so that it would be a surprise....I love the not knowing part:) jessicaleeperkins@hotmail.com

And this was my random pick:

Jenna Wood said...
We could use a 'sleeping' 'not sleeping' door hanger for the nursery!six_one_nine_girlie86 (at) yahoo (dot) com

Congratulations! I will choose your prizes over the weekend and mail them off as soon as possible after I get your mailing info. Jenna, you may have to wait a little but for your prize because I have to figure out how to make it!

IF any of you have any ideas about projects I can sew for a MAN, please let me know. I had a hard time thinking of something I could make for my sweetie - would love some ideas!

And as always, your comments are so appreciated. Each one is like a piece of chocolate!

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Janimal

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Fathers Day Silliness Tutorial

Don't forget to enter my GIVEAWAY!

My tutorial today is a bit silly. It's for Father's Day. Since my husband and I act pretty silly regularly and appreciate silly things, this works for us. Hopefully some of you are a bit silly also and will "get" this!

I am about to show you how to embroider on TOILET PAPER!

Heehee.

I did this in anticipation of Father's Day. That morning I figure my sweetheart will discover my silly project by surprise and it'll give him a laugh. A little message to him in an unexpected place to let him know I'm thinking of him.

Heehee.

(I'm giggling a lot with this one.)


Ok - first, gather your supplies, TP, a glue stick, and if you have an embroidery machine, some hooped stabilizer. (Don't have an embroidery machine? Oh, you can still embroider toilet paper, stick around!)



Fold 3 squares of TP over each other, accordion style. Use the glue stick to lightly secure the bottom piece to the hoop. Unravel the TP enough so when the hoop moves in the machine, it won't tear off the roll.




Embroider your message! Now, don't go for anything too dense, or the paper could fall apart. I went with outlined letters.



When finished, carefuly unhoop the TP, carefully snip threads, and carefully remove the stabilizer. Carefully now!




Then take your roll to the nearest potty room to be discovered!




(Inspiration for this project came to me upon discovering THIS at SwakEmbroidery.com

I think this will generate a little bit of a laugh.

If you don't have an embroidery machine, you could hand embroider a message. But I do recommend using stabilizer. I had a go at trying to add a message using just a little zigzag stitch on my machine. Want to see? You can have a go at this if you have a sewing machine!

First, write your message on the TP as a guide, again, 3 layers of TP. (I tore these pieces off the roll, but you would leave the roll intact.)



Then just stitch over the message using your zigzag stitch.



And learn from my mistake-- USE STABILIZER. Or you might have your soft TP sucked down into the feed dogs and have it torn and have to start over. :-(



Hope that gave you a giggle today.


Don't forget to enter my GIVEAWAY!

Have a lovely weekend!
-Janimal






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