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Pee-Pee Tee-Pee

Diaper changing a baby boy in your future? Don’t want to get hit with a fountain?
Be prepared with a Pee-Pee Tee-Pee!

To Make, You’ll need:                                                             

1 receiving blanket, or soft fabric
scissors
ribbon
sewing machine, or needle and thread
butter lid as pattern

To make:
cut circles in fabric, using lid as guide or about 3″ diameter.
Layer two circles, then cut from side to center point.
Bring one side over the other and form a cone.
Position ribbon as a loop at the top of the cone.
Stitch together along edges to secure.
To use:
When changing baby boy, cover his pee-pee with the tee-pee. Wash after use.

Make several from one blanket.

Graduation Year Lanyard

You’ll need:

  • keychain
  • pony beads in school colors
  • 2 yards satin cord.

Instructions: Fold your cord in half to find the center. Use a half hitch to secure it to lanyard hook. Lace beads using patterns as a guide. Finish by tying off with a double knot on each side of the last row. Add beads to the end of each string. Double knot. Trim.

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Graduation Yarn Bug

You’ll need:

  • Yarn: in school’s colors
  • black and white stiffened felt paper, card stock, or foamies
  • googly eyes
  • cream paper for the diploma parchment
  • 1 section of an egg carton
  • craft glue

complete instructions and patterns here

T-shirt Quilt

If you collect T-shirts like I do, then you’ll need to make room in your closet for more… What do you do with the old ones?? Turn them into a quilt, of course!

Here is the finished product... just waiting to be moved to my dorm bed :)

Supplies:

– 24 cotton t-shirts (this was for a 4 x 6 square quilt for a twin-size bed). You may want extras so that you can decide to leave some out at the end if they don’t fit your color scheme.

– fabric scraps galore (these should be strips of fabric, up to 14″ in length, in widths from 1-4″)

– large piece of fabric for backing (2 yards (72″) by 3 yards (108″) gave me enough extra to make a border for the front as well)

– rotary cutter, cutting mat, long plexi-glass ruler, and scissors

– sewing machine, pins, and thread

– iron and fusible interfacing

– heavy-weight batting

– 3 skeins of embroidery thread in a neutral tone and an embroidery needle

complete instructions here