snowing blizzards

Sam was invited to a little girls 4th birthday party last weekend.  Originally Chris had told me that it was the Saturday of Memorial day weekend which left me 2 days to find a gift for a little girl that I had only met once.  I asked Sam if she wanted to get her a [...]

Sam had been wearing her sleepers around the house the last few weeks calling them her cape.  I finally broke down and took her to pick out some fabric for a real cape.  She picked 2 of the most annoying fabrics to sew with but boy oh boy were the results were worth it.  I [...]

I finally had some sunlight to take pics of 2 dresses I made for Sam for Christmas today!
I used the Indygo Junction Sister Smocks pattern for both dresses.  The pattern was great to follow and simple enough for me to get them done in 24 hours.
For the first dress I used the numbers from Moda’s [...]

I found the fabric at my local quilt shop shortly after we moved and I knew that I had to make Sam a dress from it.  I used Amanda Jean’s patchwork dress pattern, I did line the dress like she does in the pattern even though it wasn’t patch worked because I liked the idea [...]

# in the quilting stage: 3

the quilt I am calling “Building Communities”
a quilt I designed and pieced a year ago but finally pasted and am quilting
a baby quilt

# in the cutting and beginning piecing stage: 7 (some are more complete then others)

some lunch totes for the nieces
a polar fleece swaddling blanket
the mystery quilt I signed [...]

Before Christmas and the onset of moving preparations I was actually sewing for a bit. I swear! I made 4 doll quilts in total for various young people I know:
I also made a shirt and dress for some special kids in our life:
The shirt is the Kimono shirt from Habitual only I lengthened the sleeves [...]