Sunday, February 28, 2016

Weekend Binging

This has been a weekend of binging for me. I started off on Friday night with tons of baking. My daughter's service club was having a bake sale on Saturday, so I made a double batch of blondies, a double batch of brownies, and a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup cheesecake. Fortunately, I did not binge eat any of them!

After my baking marathon, I started binge reading my new book What She Knew by Gilly MacMillan. I finished it this afternoon outside enjoying the sixty degrees and sunshine with my dogs. If you like thrillers, this should be on your to read list! I know it is available at Target because it is their latest book club pick and it was fabulous--all 500 pages.

On Saturday morning, I made my first Pixie Basket.  I had seen the tutorial last weekend, but I was too swamped with 15 hours of work paperwork to try one then. I used some scraps of some sunflower fabric and made this darling basket. Here is the free tutorial from Heidi at Fabric Mutt

It was so easy and a great use of random batting scraps and fabrics. I decided to make more as they will be the perfect gift for Secretary's Day with some goodies in them.
 Between yesterday and today, I made 16 Pixie Baskets! I work at three schools and have 10 secretaries to show my appreciation to. I also need a little surprise for my BOM quilting students, so I made some extra. I am considering making some more for my fifth grade students as an end of the year gift. I usually make them monogrammed book covers, but these might be the gift this year. The only thing I bought was some twill tape for the little handles. Aren't they cheerful in my garden basket? I am going to dig into my Bonnie and Camille stash and make a couple more for myself next.
 Have you tried these amazing mechanical pencils yet? They have a thicker lead, so I do not break it with my hard writing. I was given two by a friend and had to get some more because they are awesome. I ordered some more on Amazon to put in the Secretary's Pixie Baskets. They were great for marking an embroidery design on fabric.
 This was the embroidery design I traced with them. This is the second one of these I have made. This one will be part of a retirement quilt for an amazing kindergarten teacher. I thought the sentiment and colors were fitting with her decades teaching.
I am going to continue my weekend of binging with an evening in front of the TV watching the Oscars and slow stitching my Down in the Garden Block 1.
Enjoy your week!

23 comments:

  1. Oh your little totes are fantastic!! I always enjoy stopping by and seeing what you are up to. I have a marathon schedule of conferences this week...followed by a three day weekend. SMILES!

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  2. Cute Pixie baskets, and I am going to give those pencils a try for marking embroideries, which yours are lovely and so nice for a retirement quilt.

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  3. I love your pixie baskets! I've been wanting to try making one, too. They would definitely make great gifts!

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  4. Goodness, you really did some amazing binge things! I love those little baskets...too cute!

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  5. I have been wanting to make some of those pixie baskets. You really made a lot of courts ones. Thanks for linking up with Oh Scrap!

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  6. You have made the most of it. But when the mood hits, make the most of it. At least you have a lot of gifts organised and a whole book finished. And I am sure all the baking was greatly appreciated.

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  7. Those tiny baskets are adorable--I may have to make a few too! Love your little embroideries!

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  8. Those tiny baskets are adorable--I may have to make a few too! Love your little embroideries!

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  9. I love mechanical pencils! I'll have to check these out!

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  10. The Pixie Baskets are adorable and will make great gifts.

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  11. Love the pixie baskets! So cute. And the embroidery is beautiful.

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  12. Oh, I was going to tell you I really like the sunflower pixie basket you made and then I scroll down and you've made a big basketful...wow! you did get busy! I am sure they will be loved by the recipients!

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  13. I've been toying around with the idea of making a Pixie Basket. Yours are great. I may have to try out those pencils. Your embroidery is looking great.

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  14. Love the little baskets, such a great idea. Lovely embroidery too.

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  15. Looks like a lot of work went into these pixie baskets. They turned out very pretty. =)

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  16. Cool pixie baskets. Must try one myself. Thanks for the pencil recommend. When I use all the regular pencils I have I may try that one.

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  17. Those baskets are so darn cute! I'll have to whip up a few soon. Thanks for the tip on the mechanical pencils...I hate when they break which they so often do for me.

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  18. What a great idea, the baskets are lovely.

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  19. Wow! 16 baskets! I've seen these around Instagram but didn't realize they were this small. Now I might have to make a few myself! :) Thanks for sharing these on MCM.

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  20. I am amazed at your basket production! Excellent work on all of them :) I hope the secretaries all appreciate all the effort and love you are putting into these... Happy weekend stitching! Kathi

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  21. Those baskets are so gorgeous.Great job.

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  22. Those baskets are a GReaT idea. Well done...xox

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  23. Everything is darling! Good work on all the binging!

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