My newest project

Waaaaaay back in May of 07 I found a bunch of embroidery hoops at a yard sale for $1. Really, my friend Emily found them. I passed right over them, even though they were one of the top three things I was looking for that day. C'est la vie.

I wanted to steal this idea from Alicia at Posie Gets Cozy. Posey found the idea at The Purl Bee. Don't you love the internet? Even non-creative people like me can find creative ideas. I have so little creativity that I have negative creativity. I have creativity debt. I wonder what Dave Ramsey would say about that? Can you snowball creativity debt? Just wonderin'.

The Purl Bee even has a tutorial for anyone out there who can't put fabric into an embroidery hoop. Like me.

As beautiful as I find most of the fabrics on their wall, I am not down with paying $35 a yard for something to hang on my wall. What is a cheapskate to do? I have started to keep an eye out for vintage fabrics at the thrift store and yard sales. The purple/red flowers and small stripe came from the same small apron. It was torn and marked down to 25¢. The white with pink flowers was also 25¢, and the pink, blue and orange/yellow piece is a scrap of fabric that was my great grandmas. I actually upholstered a chair in that fabric for my room when I was a teenager. Don't you want to put me out of my misery now?

I am hoping that it looks random once I get a few more up there. I don't do "random" so we will have to see how it turns out. Calculated randomness. It's a good thing.

They will (hopefully) fill the blank spot above the computer armoire, and since they are vintage they don't have to really match anything. Not that I like matchy matchy anyway. That would take creativity.