Baby Booties with a Kick

I made these for my cousin for her baby shower.  Her husband is a big soccer fan so I made him baby soccer shoes.  I found this free pattern online and made them from felt.  It was all hand sewing which is kind of cool but takes forever.

Don't tell Adidas!

Fabric Shopping!

Its really sad how happy the biannual sale at Textile Fabrics makes me, I already have far too much fabric.  I might have to put myself on a fabric shopping freeze after this, I'll get back to you on that.  In my defense, all the fabric in the store was 50% off and the remnants were 75% off . . . 

As always I had a blast looking through their stuff.  The fabric did not come with a free quarter, I added it so you can see how big the prints are.


Item #1 is from the remnants, I think I am going to use it to recreate this awesome linen dress I had a few years ago.  A friend borrowed it for her honeymoon and I never got it back.  Sad face.  Also, that isn't a pink spot, its the flash.

Item #1: white linen. 

I bought this fabric thinking of my nephew.  Maybe a romper or a shirt or something?  I kind of have a thing for masculine prints.

Item #2 Aliens or Molecules?

This is a dress for my sister.  I'm thinking a summer dress with a sweetheart neckline.  It has the colors in our native flag (Woot Woot Argentina) and its super cute albeit a bit morbid, am i the only one who thinks the flowers are bleeding?
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This is an Anna Maria Horner print and I just had to have it.  The color in this pic isn't reading quite right, the background is a beautiful purple.  I'm not sure what this will become but I might have vintage caftan pattern laying around. . .

Jailbird outfit?  I bought this because I wanted to make something out of a knit fabric and this read sophisticated to me (for a knit) until someone asked me if I was going to prison.

And the pies de resistance: I call this one 'vintage ladies'!  I think this will become a purse.  It was too fun to pass up (Especialy at 50%off).

The End.

Bedding

A few month ago Bryant and I made a headboard.  The new headboard made me realize the need for new bedding etc. to match. 


I bought some nice grey fabric a few months ago but it took me a while to actually do something with it.

Here is what I did:

we keep glowing orbs next to our bed.

I made a Duvet, Bed skirt, and Euro shams.  Its simple but I think it goes better.  Now I just need the wall behind the bed to be some dramatic color.  Suggestions?

Purse

I've been carrying a super cute silver vintage handbag lately but the silver started flaking off so it was time for a new bag and time to finish a project that had been relegated to the back of the fabric pile.

I used fabric that can be seen here and here:

I used the scraps from those two projects to make this:


You can see that it is pieced together from scraps but in an awesome way, it looks great!

 I used vintage handles from my grandmother's stash.  I even lined it and put little pockets for my phone and wallet.

I like the way it turned out and it is nice when nothing goes to waste.

I feel like a slacker for not posting for so long.  It is not because I have not been busy!  Right now I am making a custom dress for a friend and working on turning a skirt my grandmother gave me into a dress.  I am thinking about doing something like this:

The skirt fabric is sheer but a similar print to the one above.  I just so happen to have some navy lining. . .  Maybe it was meant to be.

Baby Wipe/ Diaper Case

My cousin is having a baby boy.  I wanted to make her a few things that she might actually be able to use. I made her a wipe/diaper case, I got the pattern here.  The outside is an Anna Maria Horner velveteen and the lining is one of my grandfather's old handkerchiefs (I washed it, I promise).



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I am also making her a baby romper like the toddler romper I make for Niko and some baby booties.  I'll post those later.

Raggedy Andy

I made a Raggedy Andy for my nephews birthday. 

I will never make a Ragged Andy again in my life.  It took Forever!  I think I broke a tooth when, out of pathetic desperation, I started biting the needle to get the yarn through the canvas to make that red hair. 

I hope Niko likes it.  I made him a vintage fabric Raggedy Ann and Andy quilt when he was a baby. So this doll is a matching throw pillow.

Naked

I hope the doll doesn't scare my nephew, I didn't know it would be so big.