End Table Makeover

   About a month ago, I spotted this end table at the thrift store. It was love at first sight! 😉 ...Sturdy, the style I like and only 10 dollars! All it needed was a little TLC! So I bought it! And after sanding, priming, painting, staining and varnishing it... I have a "new" and improved (and if i can say so myself... beautiful!) end table!

Pinwheel Quilt

   It's January, the perfect time of year to finish long neglected sewing projects...  Like this pink pinwheel quilt! Today was the day that I finally completed it!

   I am what you might call a practical, resourceful & frugal craftswoman. My creativity mixed with practicality hearkens more back to the days when woman sewed clothes for their families, knit mittens & scarves and pieced together crazy quilts to save money and not as a hobby. They used what they had. It maybe wasn't the best or nicest, but it kept the budget balanced, the family clothed and the house homey! Yeah that's me, I love being creative, but I am practical too... 

   Now quilting can be expensive... But it doesn't have to be!  I spent under $4 on this quilt! And my first quilt (pictured above with the pinwheel quilt) cost me nothing, besides my time! How? Rummage sales, thrift stores, and free boxes, plus a creative imagination and VOILA, quilt on the cheap! 😉 The white fabric with light pink flowers on it used to be a blouse. (From a free box!)  The only material I had to purchase was the border. Which I bought after I had the rest of the quilt together, so I am very pleased with how well it matches the other fabrics! I decided to tie it, instead of quilt it. (I quilted my 1st one.) I do love the quilted look more I think, but tying was so fast and easy! 

    Both these quilts are "baby size", mostly because making a bigger quilt has sounded daunting to me in the past! But now that I have completed these, I am feeling more confident of someday starting a larger one! We will see.

   Since these quilts are baby-size  I will be tucking them away in my hope chest for, Lord willing, my own babies someday!  And, yes, I very intentionally made a blue one and a pink one!😊