For Baby Jude

My friend, Randi, is expecting her first baby next month and I went to her baby shower this last Saturday.  It was a lot of fun!  Her mom threw the party and she had some incredible food and some fun games.  I, of course, wanted to make her something special for her gift.  I love making baby blankets and so that's what I decided to make.  I found an elephant fabric at JoAnns that I thought would make the perfect applique.  I appliqued the elephant and embroidered the baby's name, Jude, on a super soft fleece and used a coordinating blue with polka dots for the back and wrap around binding.  I'm really pleased with it and think it turned out super cute!

Won't You Help Me Please?

Over the last little while I've developed a fondness for felt.  In particular using felt to make children's toys.  So now I've started making my own toys and I would like to make them into patterns to sell online.  So that's where I need help...I need a shop name.  I've always had a hard time naming things.  So I'm asking for help.  :)  Leave a comment with a name suggestion for my shop.  The shop will be for selling patterns for toys made out of felt.  Most likely not felt food because there are plenty of shops that sell patterns for those.  Leave as many suggestions as you like!  If I decide to use your suggestion then you will get a pattern of your choice from my shop or you can choose to have me make you a surprise gift!

UPDATE: I guess no one wanted to play. :( I figured out a name and the shop grand opening is coming soon! Stay tuned!

Ballerina Totes

My little girls start dance class today. I thought it would be fun to make them some cute little totes to carry their dance stuff in. I've had this ballerina fabric since Kaitlin was a baby and I think this was the perfect project for it. Originally I was going to use the ballerina fabric on the outside and the pink on the inside but then Stephanie had the idea to use the print fabric on the inside and an applique on the pink for the outside. I loved the idea because that's exactly the kind of stuff I love! In fact I'm not sure why I didn't think of it.




They turned out perfectly pink and they scream girl! I love them!

Asian Tote for Aiyana

My friend, Stephanie's, daughter, Aiyana, saw the post I did a couple months ago about the totes I made for my girls. She thought they were so neat and wanted me to make her a tote too. So yesterday I was going over to sew with Stephanie and I took some of my fabric stash with me. We had her pick out her favorite fabric and she picked out the red fabric with the gold asian characters on it. The fabric was part of a fat quarter set that I bought a really really long time ago. I've been wanting to use them for a while but just never had a project for them. We got started on the tote yesterday but had to stop because I ran out of time and I also needed more supplies to get the embroidery work done. Today I did the embroidery and applique and got the tote finished up. For the embroidery I found a site online and translated her name into chinese and then used the characters to embroider her name on the bag. I also appliqued a lady from the fabric that I used for the lining on the front.



I'm really happy that I finally found a great use for the fabrics and I think this bag turned out so cute!

Mad Hatter Tea Party Bridal Shower

Yesterday was the Mad Hatter Tea Party Bridal Shower I organized for my sister, Willow. It was a lot of work by a lot of people (Thanks Mom, Laurel, Michelle, JoAnn, Megan) but it came together wonderfully!



We had a hat decorating contest and everyone did such an amazing job! I loved them all! I wish I had gotten pictures of all of them but alas I didn't.



I had a lot of fun decorating my hat to look like the white rabbit. It's super simple but I love how it turned out! I think I may have to reuse it for my Halloween costume this year.



The bridal shower was a huge hit and so much fun! Thanks to everyone who helped and to everyone who came!