I was busy yesterday!

So here's a bunny I made last week. It's cute but a little funny. I can't remember the link where I got the pattern.

Here's the kid sleepily playing with the tag blanket I made for her. It has a bit of quilting on the front - which was the dry-run for her real quilt. It has minky dots on the back.

Here is the blanket with the tag elephant from homemadebyjill, and the bunny is made from this pattern here.

I would like to make something else so rewarding... but I just don't know what that will be.

wordle.com

This site is addictive. I love words.

The eddie cap

I just made one of these... it is too floppy since I made it out of flannel (since that's what I had). I should trim the bill of the hat a bit shorter next time. It was fun and pretty simple. I enjoyed it. Pictures to come shortly.

I just ordered fabric...

for the first time online! Thanks to homemade by Jill who posted a coupon code for $5 off at fabric.com. I can't wait until I get that fabric in the mail!!

The baby quilt is finished!!!

Here it is! Embroidered top and all! the blue is the top and the purple the bottom. This is my first real quilted quilt and I think it turned out great! There are a couple things I'd do differently next time, but overall it's great!

Smocket...

So yesterday I went to the fabric store for some fabric to bind the baby quilt. While I was there I got a bit of baby girl fabric. Last night I decided to try to alter the pattern for the Smocket (check out the link here). It worked well! I'd say the girl in the picture of the tutoial looks to be maybe a year, year and a half? Allie's almost 7 months... I just took her measurements and guessed. Here is the finished product! It's too cute! I can imagine making one for her a bit bigger for this summer, a bit longer too, to wear as a dress with a onesie. I can see a lot of potential in altering it to make it into a pretty dress.

Etc...

So the other day I went out in search of a new fabric store... they must have been sold to some other company. Now the location still has the sign on the front, but it's a dry cleaner/seamstress place with very very very little fabric for sale. What's worse is it was ugly fabric, and expensive. So, I went to JoAnn's again. I got my fat quarters for the swap and need to mail them today (I'm already running a bit late on that). I have thus far recieved four of the eight that should be coming for me. There are a couple cute fabrics in there! I'm excited to have more random stuff in my stash of fabric.

On that trip I also got fabric in purple to piece the back of Allie's quilt. I finished the back, and it looks great! We played with fabric paint last week and I was successful at gettin Allie's stamped feet in the corner of the front of her quilt (without ruining it!). Now all I need to do is finish up some of the embroidery then I'll be ready to quilt it together. Still not sure how I'm going to bind it though. I may use pre-made binding tape, or I may buy some fabric and make my own. I'm not sure how much fabric that would take, which is why I didn't buy the fabric for that part yet. It's looking good! I'll post pictures of it soon I promise!