CADS is Finished – Here’s a Final CADS Update!

I started off so strong with the CADS, but unfortunately life seems to have got in the way! I wish I could have kept it up the way that I started for the whole month, but some things came up that just left no time to complete the CADS project properly. I really enjoyed doing the projects and blogging about them and I would like to keep this up. I like the idea of blogging about craft projects and keeping a kind of journal about them. I still feel pretty good about being able to complete the challenge as much as I did.

I have still been crafting (albeit not quite so often as when I started this challenge), but have not had time to write about it.

Some of my projects include making some new curtains for our living room, making a burgandy dress, some naan breads and trying my hand at making some colourful sushi.

The curtains were made using the tutorial I previously posted here. We did have some curtains up in the living room, but they were a little bit too dark. Also, we got a new sofa and they didn’t really go with the room anymore. The fabric is a light brown broadcloth with a strip of some pretty sari fabric that we found at JoAnn’s. We really liked the sari fabric, but didn’t want to do the whole curtains in this fabric as it would be too dark. We like the new lighter color of the curtains, they really make the room seem brighter.

To make the dress I used McCalls pattern M5849. I made the skirt a little longer and changed the straps on it. Hobby Lobby has an awesome sale on McCalls patterns until tomorrow, with all of them only 99cents each! I couldn’t resist buying a few patterns, so hopefully I will get some time to try the other patterns too soon.

The naan bread I made used a recipe from the All Recipes website. They turned out pretty good and looked pretty much exactly like the photo on the website. Unfortunately I didn’t get a photo of them.

I have made sushi before, but this time I wanted to try using some colourful soy wrappers that I found at the local oriental supermarket. I usually use the nori sheets to wrap the sushi. I don’t think I will use the soy wrappers again. I found them very difficult to use and they looked messy in the end as they were so difficult to roll and they didn’t stick very well. They were very tasty, but I prefer the sushi to look neat.

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