What I have not been doing

Ok, so obviously I have not been sewing...nothing, nada. I have been feeling so good, I have had the flu then a virus then my medicine for heart started not working so well any more.  Oh yah, I also have surgery now scheduled for next month to have my thyroid removed. (Hopefully, and praying, this will fix all my health problems!) So I decided sewing was not happening. Now don't get me wrong, I have been planning sewing. : ) Lots and lots of sewing!

Like a new strawberry dress for Sarah that we seen on The Cottage Mama blog. We are making ours pink color tones. I have two sailor dresses planned for missy too. I want to make little man a new sailor suit too complete with a hat.

My nephew and his wife just had a new baby boy I am wanting to make an outfit for.

Now for the exciting part!

After drooling over some of Nicole's and Justine's dresses I have broke sown and bought myself some patterns, yes for me!

Three deer and Doe and two Collette patterns. I even bought five yards of some fabric that I would normally not buy. I am super excited to try al these patterns out. Well see how long it take for me to get into gear. But first I want to finish those last four projects for the Little Things To Sew Book Challenge.

Wish me lots of luck and sewing time!

Sharon

LTTS Play Town

Here's another one for adventure In the Little Things To Sew book! I used only the fabric I have on hand...and that is not in the frozen shed. ;) All are fabulous scraps that I have saved for this project. Sadly the "main" house fabrics is buried some where out in the frozen shed I was telling you about.  OS any way, here is what I have made so far!

I had the most fun adding things to the houses back side. Most are fabric that I appliqued on but the flower trellis was done on the sewing machine then I added some hand stitched flowers. This one is Sweet pea's favorite house.  

I also added some details to the sides. The white house that looks, well rather wonky is rather wonky. The white in linen and was not fun to sew for this project at all. I have used the linen for lining clothes with no problem but this project it is just way to thin. I will not use it again for this.ever.

Here is Sweet pea's pet store. She helped with this one by "designing" it. It was hard trying to sew it together as she was trying to play with it at the same time. : )

I was going to make as least two more houses but time has caught up with me and our wee little Prince C has learned a new trick that he rather enjoys....taking all his clothes off. Yep the little bugger is at that stage, soooo I really need to get to some more Tea Party paly suits for him. They are the only thing he can not take off. I plan on one more fox one and maybe a monkey one for fun.

#17 done!

Happy Sewing!

Sharon

Crochet Cables Hat

Once in a while I really do make myself some things. This has been such a cold winter that three snow storms ago I decided to crochet myself a new hat. This is the second hat, the first one was a big flop. The pattern was a "free" one off some blog and well, it wasn't a good one. So reused the yarn and made this one! Success!

I found the pattern off the show Knit and Crochet Now, the pattern is Crochet Cables Hat. It's free pattern too but it was a great free pattern, as in it turned out! It honestly did take long to make, I just didn't work on it that much. Sweet pea has requested one just like mama's so I have to pull out some more yarn later today...I really had forgotten how much I enjoyed crocheting. It was my first crafting love. : )  

Have a great, warm weekend!

Sharon

LTTS book, Big Kid Book Bag

 

How are you doing on the Cover to Cover challenge? I have really been enjoying seeing all the projects popping up in Lighting McStitch Flicker pool!

Here is project #16 of The Little Things To Sew Book challenge.

I am on the home stretch folks, maybe I'll be done at the end of next month?!?

To see all the details, head on over to Bartacks and Singletacks Blog !

Happy Sewing!

Sharon

A Nursing Cover

Any day now my nephew and his lovely wife are going to have their second baby boy. EEPPP! We are all so excited here. : )

The mother-to-be ask me if I would make her a nursing cover, I sure would!! 

I found this pattern over at Pretty Prudent. It was quick to make and sew, I so wish I had made a few of these when mine were all babies. : ( Where did the time go?!?

Any how, I wanted to find a fabric with kittens in it, this has kitten and puppies. I almost bought 3 yards of this fabric. I love it dearly but I was not sure what else I would make with it so it I held back I didn't. Now I wish I had of although still no idea what I do with it. ; )

I really would like to make her one more if she likes it. I do love sewing for babies!

Happy Sewing!

Sharon

Day Dreaming of Warm Weather

I was so excited to move back up north, I missed the beautiful white sparkly snow! How fun is it to go sledding in, build a snowman with the kids and even the fun snowball fight. Yes, I sure did miss having a real winter....I am so over that now! It's 8f out right now, oh where are you spring!

So to make it seem a bit warmer I thought I would follow suit as to some friends of mine and sew for the coming summer (seems like a life time away now) months. I broke down with the sale over at O+S and bought the hula hoopskirt pattern. I have been drooling over every single one that Petra has made. I hope to find some great bright summer fabric and Sweet pea a few more up like hers. I am so glad I bought too, it was so much fun to sew! Easy too! I love it even more after I sewn this one.

The top picture is side one of the great skirt!



The skirt is reversible too, how clever of Liesl!

I made a hopscotch top ala Nicole to go with her new skirt. The front of the shirt is simple the same as the back but with just a deeper neckline. Thank you Nicole for the ingenious idea! The hat is the Tulip hat from Cottage mama. I have made Sweet pea two of these hats before and they are her favorite. I did add a wee little bow on the top of it.

So are you sick of all this snow yet? I think I need to go on vacation to visit some friends in warmer weather!

Happy Sewing!

Sharon

Happy Birthday Mr. G and Sweet pea!

This month at our house we celebrated Mr. G's 8th birthday and Sweet pea's 4th! I can not believe how much these two have grown. Sniff, sniff.

Every year I make their birthday cakes, this year's cake for my big boy was a camouflage cake. I made the tree out of a ice cream cone and even added deer tracks across the top of the cake. I found this camo sugar paper at eth store and added it to the sides. Not bad looking I think, at least I know G loved it!  

See, it's even camo in the inside. It from a mix this year, Duff Stuff cake mix. It was very yummy for a box mix! 

I made Mr. G a LTTS book bag, here's a sneak peek at it! You have to wait to see the rest. ; ) 

Sweet pea picked out a little paper kit for her cake, she told me she wanted a Lalaloopsy Cake this year after we had bought it, yep it sure look like it does belong on a Lalaloopys cake to me! 

I made the frosting colors to match her decorations for the top and sides. She was very thrilled with it!



I did finish her dolly dress so they matched her birthday. 



I remade the School photo dress in a dolly size for a 14" Waldorf doll. It came out fitting very well I think. Sweet pea was thrilled with it!

I even made a matching nappy by request. Really need to buy some fabric fat quarters and make a bunch of these clothe nappies up one day. They really are supper easy and quick to make.

Would you like to make a wee little dress??

If so I'll be sharing on how I did this later on in the week!

Happy Birthday my little Loves!!

Sharon