a Fall dress . . .

I bought this pattern a little while ago and decided to try it out this weekend. Since it's Fall, I paired it up with a pair of thrifted "skinny" jeans and added a matching cuff.

A charm skirt . . .

A couple of weeks ago I won a charm pack of 1974 Moda fabric from one of my favorite blogs and online quilt stores, Quilt Taffy. They have the best customer service, good prices, and quick shipping.

So I decided to turn the squares into a skirt for Elayna. I used this tutorial which was super easy and written by a very talented sewer. I picked up a blouse to go with it and it reminds me a bit of this outfit in her Etsy shop (only hers has an amazing embroidery job).

Shopping online is fun . . .

Ribbon blankets . . .

I needed to make a couple baby gifts and came accross this tutorial. These ribbon blankets are flannel on one side and a soft minkie on the other. The fabrics and ribbon were all in my stash. It took about an hour to make them and my 5 year old was a great little helper with sorting and handing me the ribbon. I'm thinking I should make one of these for Alyssa with the leftover fabric from her quilt. She always tries to drag her crib quilt around the house and ends up tripping on it so this might save a few tears.

Reversible table topper . . .

Last month we had a wonderful weekend away and the cabin that we stayed at was generously offered to us by another family from my sister's church. So on top of being wonderful, it was free! So I wanted to thank the family for this, and after seeing the size of the kitchen table, I knew that this table topper panel would look great on it. So I bought the Christmas panel for one side and pieced the other side with all my leftover pieces of fabric from my lap quilt I was making. I really love the final product and hope to deliver it this weekend.

finished baby quilt . . .

I finished up this baby quilt this weekend. It's the yellow brick road pattern and most of the fabrics are from the Moda Hearts Aflutter line. I fell in love with the fabrics at our local quilt store and made the quilt without knowing who it was for (something I never do) but now it looks like it's going to a new baby of a cousin of mine.

Prize Fabric!!!

I finally got my prize fabric today from the Michael Miller baby bootie contest!! And it's beautiful!! Now I have to figure out what to spend the $20 gift certificate from Reprodepot on . . .

sweet little apron . . .

I sewed up a little apron yesterday from my fabric stash using this pattern from Leila & Ben. I think it turned out really cute and Chantel loves it. This morning we went to the school to make apple pies for a fundraiser and Chantel wore it as she worked (she was a great little helper!) and got lots of compliments on it. I'll definitely make this again - next time in a shorter length for Alyssa.