Wally the Alligator

Did I ever mention that I did in fact finally get the Wally the Alligator pattern together?

Well just in case I didn't I wanted to be sure that I finally informed everyone. 

He's a fun guy to sew up and that kids love to feed him their toys! Ours is currently holding some of the million balls that we own (how do they keep multiplying?!?!)

Find him here in the shop! 

Or if making isn't your thing you can buy him here. 

A small quilt and a whole lot of Underwear

Can you tell I am not much into titles? Or posting ... apparently- I am so behind on posting... yada yada yada... 

I made this little guy for fun. I really wanted to try the whole triangle thing. But not enough to want to do something huge. So this is another scrap quilt. I just used what I had on hand, minus the backing. I am not even sure what the end dimensions were... Guessing somewhere in the 30x40 inch area. 

 It was a lot of fun but if I did it bigger the  triangles could not be this small! 

 It found a home with an adorable new little boy and his family. 

So underwear... I can not believe how expensive and cheap feeling kids underwear is (at least what I found) Add to that I do not want cartoon graphics all over them... really... I know I am so boring! 

So when Susan from Crafterhours posted about making her girls underwear I decided to go ahead and try it out. 

The pattern is from Kitschycoo and  I am very happy with how easily they came together and  the fit looks like it should be very comfortable. 

2.5 yards of Jersey knit made 11 pairs of underwear and 2 oliver and s dresses in size 12-18 months. That is roughly $28 in material (including the underwear pattern which goes to size 6).

Not sure that this will be helpful to any of you, but there it is. 

Drawstring Circle Bottom Pouch Tutorial

I'm so excited to announce that we have a new pattern up in the shop, as well as a TON of bags (there maybe more coming....you know us and our bags!)

 This bag is SO fun to make. The tutorial includes pattern pieces for 3 sizes of the bag. 

 So many possibilities for uses. 

I hope you check it out - be sure to tell us what you think!

A Dress For The Girl

Not long after finding out that she was having a girl, Jess found this fabric.  It's one of the Lisette fabrics sold at Joann's. It's a sweet pink (slightly salmon) lawn, that's very easy to sew. She let me choose Simplicity 4243 for the pattern. 

It's a very simple pattern. Hopefully easy for a wee one to wear. I did change the back closure to three buttons instead of a zipper.

The sizing was kind  of aggravating. It's one of those xxs, xs, s, m, l deals, I'd rather they use pounds or months or something like that.

The front has small pleats that give it just enough fullness without being fussy. 

Don't get me wrong, I'm not against fussy. I'm sure I'll indulge in fussy later.

Family Tree

I ordered this pattern after Jennifer blogged about it here. I had seen her prints a few years ago and saved the picture... and then had no idea where I had found it so I was super happy to find it again and to see that she had an embroidery version out because I like it even more than the print. 

I thought it would be the perfect project for our car trip- and it was but it took considerably longer than our trip to complete... who knew traveling with a baby in the car gives you less time? 

 I went back and forth on pillow or wall hanging but pillow won out... I can always stretch it later...

 I added the green stripe for fun- after having to do it on my other pillow I have grown to like the detail.

I need to find more short term projects to do so I have more to show you!

And just because look at what this guy got a hold of yesterday. His face cracks me up it's like - DUDE have you seen this stuff?-- AMAZING! Funny but I hope he doesn't make a habit of it!

Picnic Quilt Planning

It's been lovely outside so I decided to take Micah out to splash around on the patio and while I was at it I started  planning a picnic quilt that I have been collecting fabric for. 

 I couldn't find an average size for a picnic blanket so I decided 100"x100" seemed like plenty of room, and it could be a layer on our bed in the winter. I wanted to keep the blocks large so here's what I came up with...

 I've been collecting yellow and green fabrics for a while. So I got to cutting and seeing what would fit where. It came together pretty quickly since there aren't that many pieces

 Unfortunately I REALLY underestimate the size of a roughly 100"x100" quilt.... just over 8'.... SAY WHAT? I now have to figure out what on earth I am going to back it in a how I am going to quilt it.... But at least it will fit on our queen bed in the event I never want to take something this large outside.... 

Hope you all have a good weekend... I may or may not be back next week... depends on if this quilt eats me for dinner

Simplicity Dress- modified

YEAH! My second dress is complete... after sitting around in my to do pile for weeks!

It's another Simplicity 2975

Mum of course supervised 

The fabric is Chestnut Hill Ironwork

Pockets were added 

and this time we modified the straps to have buttons ... for easy access

I really love it... 

Sketchbook Shirt

Sorry I've been gone for awhile. It's been a bit busy. I've done this and that but haven't managed to blog about it. I've also done some stuff. What stuff? Hmmm I'll have to think. 

I did manage to make the Little Mister a Sketchbook Shirt from the pattern by Oliver & S. Jess had just barely enough of this fabric to get it done. Matching the plaid wasn't completely possible, but the overall look was exactly what we wanted. 

Then we took about a hundred pictures. 

You get to see four. 

Happy Birthday to me - To you! AKA the Stand Mixer Cover Tutorial

***Have you made a cover from this tutorial? Please take the time to leave a comment or upload a photo to our flickr group we would love to see it!!!***

Yes that's right FINALLY I have this up for you guys... it only took... years. I was originally planning on putting it up for sale in my etsy shop but I decided that for my birthday I would give it to you all. So please make yourself one or give them away as gifts (just please don't sell them-if you would like to please contact me to purchase the pattern). And for all of you who don't sew there are still a few left in my shop for purchase. 

This was made to fit my Professional series mixer (and fits the Artisan though it's a little large) If you have a high capacity Professional mixer I now have the proper cutting instructions listed in the directions so please be aware and look for those. 

Supplies

3/4 yard outside fabric

1 yard lining fabric

1 yard one-sided fusible interfacing

miscellaneous coordinating fabric scraps

coordinating thread

printed pattern

Tools

Stand Mixer

rotary mat

rotary cutter

ruler 

tape

**FOR HIGH CAPACITY PROFESSIONAL MIXERS**

replace the above measurements with the ones provided in the list below. 

Outside Fabric

15"x29” rectangle

(2) 15”x3” rectangles

(2) 12”x3” rectangles

(2) outside pattern pieces

Quilted Stripe

Cut out enough fabric scraps to fill

(2) 15”x3.75”rectangles

(2) 12”x3.75” rectangles

Lining Fabric

15”x39” rectangle

(2) lining/inside pattern pieces

Interfacing

15”x39” rectangle

(2) lining/inside pattern pieces

Please don't forget to share your completed projects on my Flickr group!