It's May!!!!

Yay! Spring is here and summer is on it's way! The occasional cool day will not deter the uplifted spirits in our house as the kids can FINALLY play outside!!! I recently started offering printed fabric labels in my shop (after needing some myself and finding them pretty reasonable to make) and they are selling like hotcakes!!! I am amazed! I'm actually considering opening a second shop because now if you want to look through my sold items for examples of sewing things I have done, you have to wade through pages of label orders!

Anyway, I haven't been doing a ton of sewing...I patterned a new apron that I am still working on. I made one and have made some adjustments and I have the next on cut and sitting down in the sewing cave waiting to come to life!







I recently did a set of pillows for a customer using the Anna Maria Horner's Drawing Room fabric that was used on the porch swing cushions I did around Easter and they are sooo cute that the customer has already asked me to make her valances to match.








Don't miss out on the It's In The Bag Giveaway...you can click the button on the right for all the details.
I signed up to sell at an open air French Market in town this summer! There are six venues...I signed up for the first and am going to see how it goes on possibly doing one more. If you live in Illinois (in the Northern part of the state or the Chicagoland area), here is the link with all the details. Three French Hens

Beyond that, I just received an order of a couple t-shirts. I want to embellish one to go with the blue/lime Amy Butler skirt I made my daughter (I really wasn't happy with the shirt I made so...)
Enjoy your day!

Done...Diaper Bag

As promised...here are the pictures of the custom diaper bag set. It is my Modern Diaper Bag style which I sooo wish I had been making when I still needed a diaper bag! It has 6 pockets on the outside and six more on the inside. I made a diaper clutch to match which was a new design I tried and it turned out super cute! I also made two matching burp cloths. This set is a baby shower gift the customer is going to give to a friend. I hope she enjoys it!

Bad Blogger!!!

I am a very bad blogger...in that I just don't do it enough. So...I have been busy, though. I participated in my first ever craft show; it was a local PTO sponsored show. It was so-so...I sold two bags and covered my entry cost. But, I got my name out there locally and found out about a French Market being held this summer that I think I am going to participate in.

I just completed a set of box cushions for client's porch swing. She provided the fabric and I know have another fabric favorite to add to my list. They were done using Anna Maria Horner's Drawing room fabric, which is absolutely fabulous!

I am also participating in a blog giveaway hosted by Celeste of Etsyitup.blogspot.com and Katie of TheShoppingMama.com. Click the button on the right for more details! That's about it for now. I am heading down to the sewing cave to start on a custom diaper bag...I will post pictures of that when I am finished.

It's Spring!!!

I have completely blown off one of my New Year resolutions to blog at least once a week.  Sorry.  So, here I am updating.  I completed a dress for my friend for her daughter's first birthday.  I think it turned out super cute and can't wait to see pictures of her!  

I listed a new product in my shop this week...coupon organizers/mini wallets.  I had my coupons, store gift checks, gift cards, etc. paper clipped and floating between bags, and I NEVER had the one I wanted when I needed it, so I made a super cute coupon organizer to match my "after the diaper bag bag".  It's so handy...I'm not a super coupon cutter, so it only has five pockets, but it's perfect for sorting between the grocery coupons I do have, the xx% off department store coupons, the gift cards and the reward coupons I have.  

I am also posting pictures of my too cute baby boy.  These are just too cute not to share.  Happy Spring everyone!  And don't miss the widget on the upper right column of my blog...help support March of Dimes.

Oops!

Oops!....It's been a while since I posted.  I've gotten a little side tracked.  I don't have anything earth shattering to blog about today, but I thought I would post pictures of the outfit I made my little girl last week.  I had been building it in my head for months and finally got around to it.  If I were to do it again, I would change the top a bit (it ended up a bit fuller than I had intended), but still absolutely adore it!  

Something Old....

A while back, I had promised pictures of an antique children's dress that I was framing for my husband's 97 year old grandmother.  Well....I forgot to take a picture before I gave it to her and in all honesty if I remember to bring both the kids when we visit I'm doing pretty good!  So...to make up for it, I have attached a slide show of several quilts that she did.  There is going to be a quilt show in our small town next month and she was asked to display hers (since hers are hand quilted and most of the quilts to be displayed are machine quilted).  These quilts are FABULOUS!  She hand quilted all but the two standard nine block quilts for which she did the top, but did not have access to a quilt frame to do the quilting.  The tree quilt, the Texas star quilt, the grandmother's flower garden quilt and the 5 block were all done between 1932 and 1935.  The aunt of a man she was courting was a quilter and wanted to teach her.  So she spent a lot of time with that lady learning how to quilt.  In addition to those four, she made, I think, three others that she gave as gifts.  The two nine block quilt tops she made in the '80's.  I did a brief research to learn the names of these quilt patterns and on a couple of them I guessed, so if someone knows the proper name, please leave a comment so I know.  Enjoy....

Bake me a cake as fast as you can....

Happy Monday...I was browsing through some of the blogs I follow the other day and "Making It Fun", the Michael Miller Fabrics blog, had a new post.  They posted a tutorial on making a child's apron and chef's hat!  It was perfect timing as I had been considering making my daughter a set;  she loves to bake and cook and got an EasyBake Oven for Christmas.  The blog post inspired me and so I spent yesterday afternoon in the sewing cave (aka the basement) making her an apron, chef's hat  and her own (pretend) oven mitt.  I had some of

Robert Kaufman's Sweet Tooth fabric on hand from a custom order half apron I had done...I absolutely love this print, it is cupcakes on pink.  Michael Miller  also makes a cupcake fabric;  you can see it here in their tutorial.  This week's plan is to get an oven mitt/pot holder set made to match the baker-style apron I currently 

have listed in my shop.  Other than that, 

I REALLY need to go through my fabric scraps and remnants and at the very least get them organized, if not turned into something useful.