Alice Apron

I was introduced to a fantastic website called spoonflower. While searching the fabric on the website I found some great material that has a border of of the mad tea party from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland in black and white with the words of the chapter of the tea party in the background. As the material continues up from the border, the material becomes more of a deepersky blue. When I saw this material I immediately thought of using it for an apron!
To compliment the material I thought I would make the top part blue and black striped. I added black lace to the bottom of the apron for a little whimy and a black pocket to the apron. I painted a blue teacup onto the apron to complete the theme. I am soooooo happy with the way it turned out!!

Lots of Table Runners!!

Last year I bought a lot of cute print fabric in hopes of using them for table runners that could be changed by the season. This year - considering I have had some time on my hands, I was able to make them all - all 5 of them!

The first one I made was an asian print that had blues, greens and browns. the pattern I used had a border on it, so I decided to go with the greem in the pattern - I am very happy with the way it turned out - I think this one is my favorite.

The next one I made was for halloween. I found this incredible pumpkin material that had bats, witch hats, wands and stars. Against a blue background. To pick up on the black accents I picked a black border with black tassels. It came out so cute and I can't wait for halloween to come to try it out!
The next table runner was a fanstic mod green print that reminded me of leaves. The green leaves with a brown border and brown tassels was a great choice for a summer table runner.
The next one is the same as the mod green leaf material except it is bright warm fall colors of red and orange. with the same brown border and tassels I am excited to use this for the fall - outside of the halloween time frame.

The final table runner was meant to be for everyday use. I wanted it to match the red, black and white asian plate set that I made the trivets for before Christmas.
I found a great red black and white floral material that was able to fit with the plate set quite nicely. I gave this a black border with black tassels.

All-in-all I am very happy with the way then came out and I should be all set with table runners for some time. I'll be looking for Christmas material next!

Chess Painting Set

In my last entry, I posted the headboard that goes with my tan, black and red bedroom set. I already had a watercolor painting from highschool hung in the bedroom of chess pieces that was tan and black. To commpliment that and the colors of my bedroom, I wanted to make a set of four chess piece paintings to hang abbove the headboard. I haven't gotten around to hanging them yet, but I thought I'd still show them here.