baby clothes!

Now that I have a new sewing machine I've been sewing a lot :D I made the little pinafore dress
and bloomers I shared on this post, I made a dress and bloomers for our 2 year old niece and I
made a dress, bloomers and little shoes for our brand new baby niece who is a week old now :)
I also made bows for all 3 things :)

Here is the dress I had shared before with its hair bow :) As I had said in the post I had

shared this dress in, I made this dress with an old McCall's pattern I had.

This is a close up of the bow :)

This is the dress I made for our niece Dezi :) with bloomers and bow.

I used some fancy flowery stitching on it :D The pattern I used for this dress was from

The Stitching Scientist.  She has a very good tutorial for making this dress.  The bloomers

came from Sewing Mama Raeanna.  It's a very good pattern and tutorial.

This is a close up of the hair bow.

This is the dress, bloomers and shoes I made for our newest baby niece :)

The dress pattern came from Shwin and Shwin :) She's got a good tutorial on there. The 

bloomers came from See Kate Sew, another good tutorial :) Last, the little shoes came

from Tao of Craft.  Great tutorial for the shoes on there :)

This is a close up of the head band i made for the baby :D

A great place for hair bow tutorials is The Ribbon Retreat.  They have very good pdf and 

video tutorials

Next I'm going to start sewing and cutting my Waldorf doll pattern pieces.  I'm excited about that

just need to buy more stuffing as I don't have enough.  I also have fun mail coming :D I'm waiting 

for some mohair yarn to make a wig cap from and the pellets I'm going to use to weight my doll 

yaay :D I can't wait :)

first post of the new year

I've not posted on here for a long time.  The last time I posted I was working on my
Christmas projects so I could finish them before we went on our holiday to the USA
to see my family.  Well I did finish everything I wanted to make :) I made 3 diaper bags,
a craft apron, small pillow, 2 travel doll houses, 2 dinosaur mats and 2 busy books.
The diaper bags I showed off in this earlier post.  Three of our Texas nieces got those
with 3 dolls I made :)

 

 

We've got a little nephew in Texas who loves crafts! :) so we got him a big plastic box 

and filled it with all sort of crafty bits and I made him a craft apron :)  I got the pattern from

here.  I changed it a little bit though.  I didn't make the neck strap the same and I added a

felt pocket in the middle of mine.  I made little shapes out of felt and glued them on.  I had 

seen this one and I liked the words on that apron so I embroidered them on mine.

   Here it is!

Two of our nieces got the travel doll houses I made.  I wrote about them in several posts.  This

is the post showing one of the finished houses :) They were both mostly the same except for the 

color of a few things and the little dolls hair color.

Two other nephews got some dinosaur mats :D They were fun to make :) I got inspiration

from a lot of pictures I saw on pinterest some of my favorite ones were these:

Fun at Home with Kids

Makezine

apartment therapy

Blog Her

This was mine :)

  I also made a pouch to put it in :)

My favorite part of this project was making the volcano!

I think it looked really good :D I made it with a bunch of scraps of brown felt 

all glued together :)

The busy books I made were for one little niece in Texas and for Lilah-Mai, our little niece 

here in the UK.

I've made a total of 4 busy books aka quiet books.  I made 2 last year and 2 this year.  Those

are very fun to make but they are projects that take a whole post for themselves :D So I'll show

you and tell you about them in another post soon :)

It was fun going to see the family in Texas and eating all the things :D Three weeks went by 

too fast.  We came back home to our lovely cat and our beautiful Christmas tree that we put up 

before we left on holiday :)

We got the train in Texas :)

Now it's back to normality.  I have some projects in a queue :)  I want to make a weighted doll.

I've made my own pattern for this and can't wait to try it out.  I also have 2 quilts to make, a

baby dress for our newest baby niece born just today in Texas :)  I also am going to make a puffy

sleeve dress for our baby niece Dezi.  She's just turned 2 :)  

I made one of these dresses for miss Lilah-Mai with a hair bow too :) I used a pattern I got here.

She's got a very good tutorial with pictures.

Here she is!

What am I waiting for you might be asking.  Why are my projects waiting in a queue you ask.  

Well I am waiting for my new sewing machine.  I've been waiting since I ordered it on the 2nd.

There was a mix up with my bank and them but it got fixed and on Monday they said it would be

sent.  I would have it within 1 to 4 business days.  Tomorrow is day 4.  If it doesn't come 

I'll be calling and using my serious voice! 

Hope everyone is doing good so far this new year :)

New Outfits

I love to sew and having a little girl to sew for here in the UK is great :) I made Lilah 2 new dresses and a shorts set and one with little capris, all with their own hair bow :)  They were all fun to make and it was fun choosing the material to use.  I think I'm seriously depleting my fabric stash.  I will need to do more fabric shopping soon :)  I went looking online for toddler clothes to make and found so many great tutorials and patterns.  I had to make a 'for Lilah' folder on my laptop to have all my favored ones I want to make in one place.
The first dress I made her came from a Simplicity pattern I already had from a few years ago and I think it came out ok.  I love the fabric I chose for this dress.  It was fun and simple to make.  The only problem area for me was the the slit at the collar.  Turning that over was difficult for me.  I'm not sure I did a great job there, but all in all it turned out nice I think.

This is the dress and the British Princess in it :D

The next one I made was a pillowcase dress.  I looked at a lot of different sites to see if everyone made them about the same way.  I chose for the love of craft to make a size 2T dress, so it's still a bit big on her but I think it'll still fit ok next summer :)  That one came out very nice I think.  It was so easy to make and even though it was a bit big, she still looked pretty when she tried it on.  The bloomers came from Sewing Mama Raeanna.  She has a free pattern to use and has pictures of different bloomers she's made :)  

Here it is!

After these I wanted to make her some shorts to wear because it was sunny out, and here in the UK the minute the sun comes out people want to put on summer clothes.  I found some cute things to make for Lilah-Mai :)  I knew I wanted to make her a pinafore dress or blouse, so as I was looking for the one I liked most I found a very cute tunic top to make her.  It's from Shwin and Shwin.  It's called the black bird tunic and it's lovely.  She's got a great free tutorial and pattern there.  The only thing I didn't do was the piping.  The shorts I got from Caila Made.  She's got a free pattern and tutorial.

Here it is and Lilah wearing it :) 

And last is the pinafore I found with some little capris :)  I chose Second Sister.  She's got a free pattern for it there.  It's very sweet and cute :) and Lilah looked adorable in it.  And it's reversible!  I only have a pic of one side though.  For the capri pants I just used the summer shorts pattern I got from Caila Made and made them longer.  I also added some ties to the sides at the bottom.  

Here it is!

We will see what I make next :)