Talented Mommies

About a year ago I found this great “support the troops” Marine Corps colors fabric. It’s a red background with white stars and yellow ribbons. I thought it would be great to make a travel neck pillow for my Brother-in-Law, the no-longer enlisted Marine (once a Marine, always a Marine!). Turns our he’s not doing as much traveling for business and most of us can’t afford to shelp 4 family memebers anywhere on a plane these days, so I was deparately trying to think of how I could use this fabric. In the meantime I then found a really nice Marine Corps emblem fabric that I thought would go nicely if I ever figured out how I was going to use the first fabric, so I bought the second fabric! Tooling around the internet one day, I found a great pattern for regular, standard pillow case and thought….hmmm, “Great way to use the fabrics AND give a little something special to ‘Uncle Mike’ for Father’s Day”!

Well, it went together like a dream, nice and easy! So much so, I’m going to be making PLENTY of these to come! I’m going to make some for my Hubby a former Navy man (I also found the same support fabric in blue for the Navy, just have to find a Navy fabric I like to go with it! heheh), and some to match our Daughter’s Ariel quilt for her Big Girl Ariel room! I will probably use it to make pillows to match our bedding (whenever I get around to THAT monster of a project that’s been in the works for YEARS! hehe), make some for other gifts, etc. etc!

Anyways, just a little tidbit of something to blog about in my crafting world! I know Heather’s been anxiously awaiting my getting projects done and blogged, so I think I’ve finally satisfied my INITIAL contribution! hehehe Soon to follow, though, will be a blog about my Daughter’s Ariel sundress. I have to put the ribbon ties on and it’s done, so that should hopefully be soon!!! Take Care all!!!!

Nikki