Feeling of accomplishment

I finally used "Design it Yourself Clothes" and made MYSELF a skirt this weekend.  And today I put in an invisible zipper and made my own bias tape to finish the bottom.

K's quilt top finished!

and I love it!  It's not perfect by any means (don't look too closely at my mitred corners) but I love how the colours and the white turned out.  And it looks great with her new wall colour and the Ikea rug we picked up on the weekend.  I'm very excited to finally be decorating K's room.  I realized if I want to choose what goes in, I had to do it quick!  K takes after J and has a mind of her own!

Birthday skirt and shirt

My littlest turned two this month!  She loves to wear all of her sisters hand-me-downs but I wanted to make her something of her own so I made a patchwork skirt from the Moda Bakeshop tutorial and appliqued a number 2 on a plain white golf shirt.  She kept telling everyone all day "I'm three, actually" and because she got a laugh has expanded that to "I'm six" (or eleventeen or whatever!).  What a darling she is!

Donuts anyone?

I really can't seem to get multiple pictures to work *sigh*.  I made this for a present for my daughter for her second birthday.  I used a pattern from Sweetie Pie Bakery but just changed the writing on the box.  Tim Hortons is like a drug - my girls will do anything for timbits!  The donuts are very very cute but K calls them cupcakes.  She knows cupcakes (and loves them) but I don't think she's ever had a full sized donut. (I really should start making things the girls are familiar with!).  Anyway, they have been playing with them, which is all that counts!

Love bird

I made this Love Bird from Molly Chicken's tutorial.  His body is terry cloth, his pants (?!) are flannel and he has a little bell inside.  He went to a new little baby - well, I'm not sure the baby actually got to see him before his older sister absconded with him!

Valentine's gifts

This was adapted from a tutorial from Sweetie Pie Bakery.  I made one box but then lost patience so made the second one into a little purse.  The girlies loved them but didn't really get it as they've never been given a real box of valentines chocolates!

Been busy . . .

Here's what I've been working on for the last couple of months.  I wish I knew how to include multiple pictures in some sort of organized way so I think I'll just do a post for each thing.  I should learn more about it but since this is just for me, I'm not going to get all wound up about it!

This was another birthday gift for a 4 year old girl - just a plain sketchbook covered in pink broadcloth and Jessica Jones fabric from JCaroline.com. I mismeasured (oops!) hence the little strip on the bottom.

Buttercup birthday bag

I just love these little bags!  This one was a birthday present for a four year old girl.  I debated about whether it would be an appropriate gift or not (and obviously decided what the heck!).  There were about 30 (!!!) little girls bearing gifts at her birthday party but I bet this is the only purse she got.

Duvet cover for the kid who wont use a blanket

My little one sleeps in the coldest room in the house and does not like to be covered up except in her "blankey" which is, being a baby blanket, tiny and not very warm.  I found a crib duvet at Jysk for sale for $8. but, as I told my husband, Jysk didn't have a duvet cover in the right size so I had to make one ;).   I'm not in love with the fabric but the price was right ($7 for 3 metres) and it is soft, cozy flannel.  Here I was thinking that K. would be excited to have a new duvet and I could ease my momma guilt and cover her up every night when I go to bed but she HATES the blanket - has a fit if I try to put it in her crib with her.  J. loves it though so when we let her she piles into bed in her fleece nightie, covered with her princess sheet, princess blanket, K.'s duvet and her duvet *sigh*.

I'm starting a new quilt!

I've ordered the material (Luna from Maywood Studios) and can't wait for it to get here.  This is my second quilt and I learned so much from making the first that I'm not going to make the same mistakes again, lol!  Despite my husband's misgivings about so much white, I'm going to make a pinwheel quilt like the one over at V and Co.  It is for my almost two year but how dirty can she get it??