Name Day Outfit

Recently my daughter started kindergarten, it's really hard to believe that she's that big already!  Well, in some ways it isn't, she's always acted a little older than her age and has a very independent spirit.  Still, I still remember her as my adorable little baby and now she's all grown up and going to school.

At the schools here they theme each day for the first few weeks.  The first day, was name day and after that each day will be dedicated to a color.  I thought it would be fun for her to have a shirt with a K (the first letter of her name) on it for name day.  So being the sewist that I am I whipped one up with my handy dandy embroidery machine.  I also used some cute polka dot fabric I had in my stash to make a matching skirt.

I just really love the milkmaid skirt tutorial by crafterhours that I used for this skirt.  It's really easy and super cute!  My favorite combination!

Butterfly Blanket

I was recently asked to make a "pink girly blanket with a butterfly"  she also said she wanted polka dots or gingham but she left it up to me.  Here's what I did:

 

It's fleece on one side and cotton on the other and the ruffle really takes it to the next level.  I hope baby Rayelynn enjoys it as much as I enjoyed making it for her!

Carousel Shirt

Every year we take our kids to the carnival at the local county fair.  I usually like to dress my girls in something cute and matching.  This year I wanted to embroider a shirt with a carousel horse because I think that it's an iconic carnival ride.  So I decided to embroider on my younger daughter, Isabella's, shirt and then I found a shirt for my older daughter, Kaitlin, at Target that had some fun sparkly embellishment on it.

I found a fun bright striped fabric fat quarter at a local fabric store and used that for my color palette.  I embroidered the carousel horse on one shirt and added some raggy fabric bows to the shoulders to give it an extra something.

I also whipped up some matching hair accessories.  Korker curlies for Isabella and a frayed fabric flower with buttons for Kaitlin.

I love doing these kind of projects!  They don't take much time and my girls always end up looking so cute in their outfits!

Modernista Sewing Room Swap

I signed up to be part of the Modernista Sewing Room Swap.  I got Amy as my partner and she wanted a door stop and a fabric basket.  Based off her color likes I went shopping and the minute I walked through the door of the fabric store I saw this fabric by Riley Blake, the line is Dress Up Days by Doohikey Designs, and I was instantly inspired!

I started by fussy cutting some of the bicycles and scooters. How cute is this fabric!

After a lot more cutting and a lot more sewing ... I ended up with this cute little set!

I used this Nine Patch Doorstop Tutorial by Oh, Fransson! for the door stop, except I put the zipper on the top of the bag.  I also did my own piecing on the back because I wanted to highlight some of that wonderful bicycle print.  I also lined the whole thing as well so it should be easy for her to fill and empty as needed.

I used this Fabric Basket Tutorial by Pink Penguin for the fabric basket.

After completion I added some chocolate, and shipped it off far far away to the UK.  I really hope she enjoys it as much as I enjoyed stitching it!

Sewing Accessories for my Sister

I'm really hoping that better late than never applies for this next post!  I really kind of slacked off the last two months....but one thing I did do was make my sister a birthday present!  Never mind the fact that I made this back in June and I'm just now posting about it.  My sister, Laurel, likes to sew as well and I've been wanting to make one of these handy sewing organizers for a while and this seemed like the perfect reason!  I knew she was using the fabric line Aviary by Joel Dewberry for her sewing room, and I also knew I had a few scraps from the line in my stash.  So dug through my stash and came up with this:

Which turned into this:

Along with the sewing organizer I decided to make her a set of 6 fabric weights.  I think it turned out pretty cute and best of all, I used my stash!