What's On Your Needles - Shoe Holders

Do you have enough closet space? 

Does anyone? 

We used to. 

Really we did. 

Then we moved here to Raleigh.

It's a much smaller, nifty (town)house.

We "lost" a big walk-in closet.

A closet so big that my grown son, Jordan, jokingly asked 

if he could move in to that "room."

No big problem though. 

We gained an attic for storage of the non-essential, day to day things that 

used to live in our walk-in.

We also lost wall space where our shoe racks had hung.

For a year+ now, our shoes have been scattered,

smothered and covered around our bedroom.

(Are ya hungry now?)

So I decided to utilize the space on the closet's louver doors!!!

Genius, yes?

I made a pattern. 

Well, really I just wrote the dimensions up. 

These shoe hangers have to fit in 12" wide spaces.

I then commenced to tearing fabric. 

I tear fabric for straight lines. 

Easier and much more accurate than cutting 'em.

Using all black and white fabric.

 

I made up how to construct these as I went along. 

Hopefully I can make the other 3 the same way. 

Yikes!

There's a slat of wood in a pocket at the top to help hold it flat. 

Drapery hooks are in the back to aid in hanging them 

over the old, broken over the door hangers. 

 

How do you like this fabric? 

My friend Tara mentioned that JoAnn Craft and Fabrics had Star Trek fabrics. 

I was having a fit to find an "excuse" to buy some.

Adding a bit of embroidery to jazz it up a bit. 

Using the 3 "official" uniform colors.

Did you know that the highest ranking Star Fleet Officers' uniforms were actually a green-yellow color?

The camera made them look golden!

Live long and Prosper. 

I gotta get back to assembling these shoe hangers before 

 forget how I did the first one!

What's on your Needles Wednesday?

What's on Your Needles?

It's Wednesday. 

Whatcha workin on?

I know how your crafty mind works. Just like mine, right?

You have more than one project going at any given time, right?

If you're not crafting, you're thinking about crafting. 

Unless you're thinking about stuff I don't really want to know about. 

Okay - eeewww - keep that to yourself. 

Please. 

Currently on my needles -

a super secret embroidery,

an afghan, 

 

and a shoe hanger/storage thingy.

I'm making 4 of these for us. E'er day I'm trippin over shoes!

Recently finished - 

A blankie for my childhood friend's newest family member, Maegan Gabrielle.

 I used vintage animal designs that belonged to my Great Aunt Pearl. 

I also sneaked in my Clempzin Tiger colors on the cat. heehee

 The back is this Democrat fabric. 

I stitched/quilted 3 little donkeys in each corner.

A Redskins knit cap - toboggan, as we call it in The South.

 Yeah, I finished knitting it late one night and had to get a pic right then!

Like my bright blue flan`nel gown?

And a purple sweater for Rosie.

 Oh heck, have you been introduced?

This is my new baby, Rosie.

Brought her home from the Wake County Animal Shelter last Fall.

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She's a Terrier mix, maybe 5 years old, about 12 pounds and I loves her!

So, what's on YOUR needles?