Whoo whoo

Little owls for my Little Owl. I finally, finally finished this blanket for her. Took me long enough! I used flannel instead of batting, and kind of cheated by just using a big bias tape maker to make the binding.  But she loves it, and it’ll be perfect for taking to the farmers’ market and for [...]

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Alice

  Look at this adorable little Alice!  I was tickled pink when her mama asked me if I could make an Alice in Wonderland costume for her, and although I wasn’t able to put together quite what I wanted, I was pretty pleased with the end result.  I did the dress and petticoat and she [...]

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Valentine’s

I am on such a twirly skirt kick. I’m sure it will pass soon. This is her Valentine’s Day skirt – butterflies, hearts, and calaveras.  Sounds about right to me. She loves it but to tell the truth it falls short of what I was envisioning. I wanted to do a super flouncy patchwork kind [...]

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Twirly Girl

Sweet wild one, Twirling through life, My dancing fairy, Leaving smiles in her path. These are SOOC – I had planned to just take a few quick shots of the two new skirts I made today, but she wanted to have a fairy dance. So I snapped away as she swirled. The last one is [...]

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Spin

This is the first dress I made for the tot in our thrifty extravaganza. It’s just an XL polo-style t-shirt with the sleeves shortened and the whole thing cut down a bit. I didn’t have to change the collar at all. It’s quite long, which she loves. Sorry the picture isn’t better, she was jumping [...]

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Thrifted

This afternoon, while the tot did not even come close to taking a nap, I used up some thrifted t-shirts I’d had sitting around for a couple of months. I do this really clever thing where, as a delaying tactic, I go get supplies for a project I don’t really have time for and am usually not [...]

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Quilts and Messes

Finished the four doll quilts for the tot’s school today. I put a new blade on my rotary cutter and it pretty much made my week. Honestly, what’s with that? Just change the blade when it’s used up. It’s kind of like when I cut open the bottle to get the last speck of lotion [...]

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Quilted

For you consideration, two poorly focused shots of the inadequately quilted crib quilt that I finally gave up on and finished binding on the machine. So it’s half hand-bound and half machine-bound. I make my own rules. Actually it’s the quilt I made for the beginner’s quilting class I took, and she didn’t have us [...]

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Snuggled Up

The tot has two hooded towels, one bunny and one lamb.  I received one as a shower gift and I think she got the other one when she was three months old.  To say she loves them would be quite the understatement.  But they are getting pretty small.  The lamb one doesn’t even wrap round [...]

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Art Smocks

I’m working on a project for the tot’s school – a big pile of art smocks.  They need some that can be wiped down easily, so I’ve used Ikea shower curtains.  We’ll see how well they hold up. I used that bias tape they sell, which I usually scorn.  But for this project I wasn’t [...]

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