After I showed a picture of the previous doll on instagram, a friend messaged me and said she wanted to place an order for her niece with her name on the chest, we chatted back and forth and agreed on colors and fabric choices and this is the result (it’s already safely in their hands) …
My oldest daughter had to go to a birthday party last week, first she found a stuffed mouse and I found that I still had some of the blue fabrics left and enough for an owl purse, so she helped me make it on the embroidery machine 🙂 The girl liked them 🙂 My neighbor …
I recently made another doll for a friend at church ( I made her one last year before Christmas, but it got lost in the mail to Boston during the big snow storm) Here I used cotton for the hair instead of wool/felt and stabilized it first to prevent fraying I also embroidered the girl’s …
I can’t believe it’s June already! School is almost out too and my daughter finished her EOGs and did very well, my son still has a few more to do before school is out. I am still figuring out what program to use for blog posting, it looks like LiveWriter won’t work anymore, so I’m …
Last week I also finished this customer quilt –from scratch I told you about it on my accuquilt post on the 15th I quilted allover pointy swirls On the backing I used the black military print fabric, there was enough to do the whole backing. I also surprised her with a mouse with the initial …
Yesterday I started making some mice for the upcoming craft show. Here’s 4 that I made (6 x 10” hoop size) The pattern is from dolls and daydreams here I’m actually sewing a lot LESS lately because SOMEONE wants to play- I know, how dare she! 😉 Sonja’s favorite is play doh, we’ve …
In April I managed to completely finish these items 2 ITH lambs for a birthday And Easter dress for Sonja a felt turtle pincushion an Ahhhh table topper (secret) The round robin quilt So 5 items where most of them are small. my sewing time has been a lot less lately, I’m tired a …
Saturday we went to a birthday party and I made two matching lambs for the birthday girls ( they are 2yrs apart and about a week) The pattern is an ITH pattern from dolls and daydreams Their main wish was money, but I HAD to make them something, so I then added some of these …
I have a few NEW things to show. This weekend my daughter was invited to a birthday party and she wanted me to make her a mouse and I did her initial too on the belly. Then these 3 just happened to hop into the hoop and create themselves too…. I have them for …
Saturday afternoon, Kim and I (another lady at our church) hosted a baby shower for my (our) friend Laura. I made the cake! Laura has such a cute nursery theme, pale green and off white and pictures of nursery rhymes and more. Kim had bought plates and things with polka dots on them in pink, …