Pink is for girls

This is a nursery that I did for a friend of mine. I actually did this a few years ago but I am just now getting around to posting the pictures. My friend drew me a picture of these curtains and I made them. It was really fun to figure out how to construct them to look like the picture.

I also did the pillow in the chair and the crib skirt, bumper and pillows.


The pillow below was my favorite one to make. This picture also shows a close up of the bumper pad. It has custom made piping and covered buttons. I really love how everything turned out.

The hem of the bed skirt was roll hemmed to help the fabric flow and puddle more.



If I had a girl I would love to do a room for her like this.

Trick or Treat

I am so excited for Halloween! Not because I'm dressing up or anything but because I designed, drafted and constructed my very own pattern for my baby's costume. Isn't that sweet! (pun intended)

He is going to be the cutest little candy corn. The costume has felt on the outer and is lined with a cotton muslin on the inside. There is a zipper in the back and snaps on the bottom between the legs openings.



In other news here are a few shots of some things I'm putting up in my shop. The first is a set of burp clothes. They are two layers of flannel with ribbon on one side.

The second picture is of some kitchen towels I did. I'm really digging the ric rac on these.

Small and Large

It has been raining a lot here lately. Thanks to the rain I have not felt like getting out much, but who would? This last weekend we had 10" of rain in 12 hours. So I've been holding up in my sewing room working on a very large project that I can't say much about because it is a surprise for someone and some smaller projects in between.

These are some flannel burp cloths I made for my friend Jena who is having a little boy anytime now. They are 2 layers with ribbon on one side. I love these. After I had my 2nd baby I made a bunch of these and they work great. They are about 12 by 16 inches so they cover your whole shoulder and then some, which is a blessing if you have a baby that spits up a lot!
They were so cute I just had to keep one of them to add to the ones I have and will be using in a few short months; so I kept the one with the yellow ribbon on it.
This is the only picture you will get from me on the big project that I doing right now, at least until after the person this is meant for has it. I have to say that I just love all those fabrics together. Jennifer Paganelli's fabrics were perfect for this project. She has a great blog too!
This is a painting smock that I make for one of my boys. Sorry no shots from the front, but the back is more interesting anyways. I put a placket on both side of the center back mainly because I wanted it to be a little more roomy so he won't grow out of it so fast. I love how the stripes on the placket are perpendicular to the rest of the smock. and then I added some Yellow buttons for a little pop.

For a future project I am recovering one of my through pillows that didn't make it well in the wash. The fabric just started to come apart! I guess that's what I get for getting cheap pillows, but now I'm reusing it as a pillow form; so how's that for a recycling project. I'm excited for it and I will post about it soon.

A gift for a cute little guy

One of my friends from college recently (about 2 months ago) had her 3rd little boy; and because I believe every baby should have something new I made these:

They are double sided burp cloths. Both sides are made of flannel from JoAnn's, I added ribbon to one side of each to dress them up a bit. The green one was so plain so I also appliqued the cowboys by the fence on it too. They are also bigger than most other burp cloths I've seen. In my experience this is very helpful to the mother (she doesn't go through so many shirts a day). They are about 12'' by 17.''
I made a bunch of these after I had my second baby, mainly because the others I had were very worn. My son loved these, they are simple, cute and fast to make. If I have another one I think I will make a bunch more- you can never have to many burp cloths.

Nursing cover

I have been waiting to post about this until I got this blog up and running so here it is. I was teaching a small basic sewing class and this was one of our first projects, (most of the students were young mothers). Here are the fabrics I used. The darker fabric is for the back.

Here is the completed cover all rolled up and ready to go into a diaper bag.

Here is the strap that goes around the mothers neck, it is adjustable which I love.
This is the whole cover, the pattern I used was for a one sided cover but I wanted it to look nice from either side and I also wanted it to be a little larger because I know babies like to wiggle a lot.