New Year-Finish Project 3

        I haven't posted recently on my progress on the UFO list. I told you that I had finished the top for the belly dance outfit, my son's sweatshirt and the shirt. I will post photos of those soon. I've also almost finished the Xmas quilts-yes, there was enough fabric for 3 quilts. I have to put the backing on 2 of them. I plan on finishing them this week. I know I had Feb. and March to finish but I was working 6 days a week sometimes 8 to 10 days in a row.
    So, my next project will be finishing the Mata Hari inspired costume that has been on hold since 06. I want to finish this by the end of this month. Then the next project will either be the Halloween quilt or the belly dance skirt. I've looked at the skirt and found all the fabric for it. I even have the design of what I wanted to look like still pinned to it.

    I've bought even more Halloween fabric. I have so much of it I could probably make 2 but I plan on making a King size quilt.
   One last thing-I found the pattern for a dress I wanted to make awhile ago. It isn't on my UFO list as I haven't even bought the fabric for it.
   So, I've been sewing away the UFOs and PHDs. I also want to finish some of the Lolita and patchwork skirts that are half way done.

Stash Organization by Fabric Therapy

Fabric Therapy:Fabric Organization

If you want a detailed instruction on how to store your stash,UFOs,scraps and other sewing items-you have to see Teresa
on her blog Fabric Therapy. She has it all outlined and you will be amazed at this lady's detail and organizational skills of her sewing area and fabrics.My favorite thing is that her sewing area is in the basement so I can relate to her way more than to those super fancy sewing rooms that I will never achieve. Plus, my goal is to organize my sewing room better which this section is fantastic.

As you can see at the top of this page this is some of her fabric stash in her quilt cave.This is her first section on organizing fabric-here

Fabric Therapy:Scrap Organization

Her organization of her scraps is amazing. I can't even do it justice talking about it here. Just take a look on part 2-here

Fabric Therapy:UFO Organization

This section on UFO organization will inspire you to organize and start finishing up those long lost projects-here

Fabric Therapy:Tool Organization

Awesome ways of organizing all those items we use to sew,take apart,etc-here

Fabric Therapy:Organizing Books,Magazines and other paper work.

Here

Cirque Du Soleil Costumes

How to Make Resin Jewelry

This is an awesome tutorial for make resin jewelry this simple. I want to try this sometime soon.
From Beading Daily tutorial -here

How to Make a Bustle Steampunk Skirt

How beautiful are these skirts? Tutorial on how to make them -here

How to Make Steampunk Goggles

I know there's many tutorials on how to make goggles but I thought this was really cool. From Fifi Versus the World another view of her tutorial -here

Crochet Mini Top Hat

Crochet this top hat for your Steampunk Circus outfit. Pattern from Treasures for Tots-here

How to Make Crochet Flowers

I like these crochet flowers-pattern here

Steampunk Crochet

Here is a cute pattern to crochet a gear from by Lemon Tree Designs -pattern here

Pattern here