Black & Plum Sewing Apron

A Great Big Happy Birthday to my Best Friend, Stephanie!  Since we used to be sewing buddies (before she moved away) I thought I would make her a fun sewing apron for a birthday present!


 

I used Moda's Half Moon Modern Sewing Room: Sewing & Craft Apron Tutorial.  Everything I used I had in my stash, which was nice.  I think the colors looks really nice together.  I wish the solid in the waist band was a little bit closer of a match to the polka dot fabric but I don't think they look bad together.  As you can tell I have a thing for polka dots!  I think I have more polka dots in my stash than anything else!  I hope she loves it as much as I love it!  I really need a sewing apron myself, so it was hard to package this one up and send it off, but package it up I did...



...and add a little handmade gift tag!  I hope you love it, Stephanie, and I hope you have the best birthday ever!

Baby Blanket for Liam

My sister also asked me to make a blanket for her sister-in-law's new baby, Liam.  It's fleece on one side and cotton on the other with a satin binding. The fleece should be nice and snuggly for baby Liam!

Baby Blanket for Olivia

My sister's friend is having a baby girl and my sister asked if I could make a blanket for her to give to her friend.  I said yes, of course.  We went to the store and picked out this adorable polka dot micro-corduroy.  I just love the way it turned out!  My first instinct would have been to do the ruffle pink but I'm just loving the way the lime green looks!

Little Fox Skirt

My best friend, Stephanie's, baby girl, Alyssa, turns 1 year old today.  Since I can't be there to celebrate with her, I made her this cute little outfit.  Well I made the skirt anyway and I embellished the shirt.

The skirt is just a simple elastic waist skirt, but how cute is that fabric!  It's flannel, which is a little unorthodox to make a skirt out of, but those little fox faces just begged to be made into a skirt.  I also added a little ruffled glitter ribbon to the neckline of the store bought shirt just to make it a little more special!  Then I wrapped it up in some tissue and made this cute little fox gift tag...

I love this fabric!  Maybe I'll go get some more to make pajama pants for my girls.  I hope Alyssa (or at least her mom) enjoys the outfit.  Happy 1st birthday, Alyssa!  I hope it's amazing!

Modernista Kitchen Swap

I recently finished up round two of the Modernista Swap!  This time the room was kitchen.  My partner said she loves bright colors and that she wanted a kitchen towel set.  She also has a lot of white in her kitchen so I decided to use quite a bit of black so that the towels would stand out in all that white.  I used one white flour stack towel, two black kitchen towels, and I made her a potholder.

I think I definitely succeed in her desire for bright colors.  I'm a little nervous because this isn't really anything like the stuff I normally do.  I very rarely work with all solids and use so many colors at one time.  I was really pleased with the result but I'm so nervous to hear what she thinks of them!

I also received my package as well...

...the most adorable mini quilt that is just perfect for my kitchen and some of the cutest magnets!  Those tiny squares must have been so much work!  The colors are perfect and I couldn't be happier with what I received!

Poodle Skirt

For my daughter's 50th day of kindergarten, they did a 50s theme day, so I decided to make up a quick poodle skirt.  I used some bubble gum pink fabric that I had in my stash and whipped up a quick circle skirt with an elastic waistband.  I also added a quick machine embroidered poodle.

 

It was fun to make and she looked cute for 50s day!