**Don’t forget to enter my makeup bag giveaway!!!! I love when my friends come to me with requests for adorable little things I wouldn’t ever have a need to make for myself. And when I got a request for this outfit, I was immediately excited to try it. Chloe wasn’t exactly thrilled to model it for me, but she still managed to cooperate enough for me to get some decent shots of it on…
Continue reading***THE GIVEAWAY IS NOW OVER*** If you’re anything like me, you read craft blogs and imagine the authors to have really amazing handmade things filling their homes, right? That’s so not the case for me! 95% of what I make leaves my house and I just don’t have much time left over to sew for my girls, let alone myself. I realized I needed to remedy that this last week when my makeup bag started…
Continue readingOne of the most asked questions on my blog is about how I applique curves. So when I was making the baby blocks I snapped a few pictures of how I do the curves. I hope this helps those who were wondering! My first tutorial on applique. This font can be found here. First, there are 2 kinds of curves, inside and outside. Inside: Outside: And for a tip: when I do all applique, I…
Continue readingLast year I posted a story about some shirts I made for a special friend of mine (please go read that post to understand this one better). This year I thought long and hard about what I wanted to make for my friend’s little girls to celebrate their brother’s birthday. I decided short sleeve peasant dress sounded like a fabulous idea. I hunted down this sweet butterfly fabric, keeping true to the theme, and got…
Continue readingOne of the things I love the most about being able to sew, is being able to make just about whatever I want. One of my favorite things to create is unique and personalized baby gifts. Last year I made this one for a friend to give to a friend of hers. The blocks were a huge hit! So this year, I got another request for baby blocks—this time for a baby girl. I…
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