Crafting not Posting

While I have been crafting I have not been posting. Partly because I have not taken any pictures lately of the stuff I am working on. Most of the crafts that I have done lately have been with my kids. The younger kids each made a small 20 x 25 inch blanket. I have completed a few embroidered quilt blocks and taught myself tatting. Although the two bracelets that I made teaching myself tatting somehow got eaten by my dogs, so I have to make new ones that I have not yet gotten around to doing. 

Guess that I need to work on getting my pictures done and posting more. 

Finished Stacey's Wall Quilt

It took me about a year to get this wall quilt. About a year ago my friend Stacey drew some designs and my husband suggested that I make on into a quilt for her. So at the same time I started back to school I started working on her quilt. It was machine pieced with hand and machine applique. Then finished off with hand quilting, which I tried to get a few closer pictures of off the back where it shows up better. I just wish that I could be there when she gets to see it up close for the first time and not just in pictures. 

Girls' Dresses and a Doll Dress

It is time to update my blog since I have been doing so poorly at it lately, just a little busy and have not gotten all the pictures to add with the updates. So I am updating with the few pictures that I do currently have and will worry about the rest later. 

So lets start with an what got me to make these dresses. Which is all thanks to a visit from a friend from California at the end of August. Her daughter found out that she was coming to see me and wanted to know if I would make her a new dress, since she can no longer fit in the one we gave her two years ago that my youngest daughter had grown out of. I thought it was cute that she called herself to ask me to make her a dress. A few days later my youngest daughter and I where wasting time before going somewhere so we stopped by the local fabric store and picked out some fabric and a pattern. My friend and her daughter liked  what we picked out. Although I had everything cut out before my friend's visit it did not get sewn until after she had left. The first dress is the one sent to my friend's daughter. The last picture is my youngest daughter in her new dress. In the middle is a picture of a doll in a cute little dress. This is the matching doll dress to the dress that my daughter passed on to my friend's daughter. The doll dress had been cut out when I originally made the dress for my daughter but it only just got made, it only took me about four or five years to get around to it after finding the bag it was all put away in years ago. It was my purse project as I call it, a small project that I can keep in my purse or bag and hand sew when I have to sit and wait somewhere. So it was only fitting that the picture of the finished doll dress went with the new dresses for the girls that had the original dress and both loved it so much that they wore it every chance they could until they could not fit in the dress any more. It is also fitting that their girls' new dresses kind of match even though they each got their own version of the dress.

Cross Stitch For My Husband

 

I think it was last year I came across a cross stitch kit that reminded me of our Golden Retriever. When I told my husband about it he wanted it so I went ahead and bought it. I do not know how long it sat waiting to be worked on but I finally got around to making it for him. Now to just get it framed so he can put it up somewhere.

Though I am a bit behind with posting it. Considering I finished it before I made the recent doll clothes for my daughter's doll and my boys' bears. At least I have gotten it up now though. I still have a few other things that I am behind with putting up but they will have to wait a little longer since I can not seem to locate the card reader to load the pictures. I will work on finding it and hopefully get the other stuff posted tomorrow or at least as soon as I can get to it. 

Doll Sleeping Bag & Pillow by My Daughter

My youngest daughter enjoys to sew with me from time to time. One night my husband was watching some reality television show while I was looking at something, I think I was reading am email. Anyways some how the two things made me think that she might want to try a new sewing project. I asked if you would like to make a sleeping bag and pillow for her doll. She loved the idea, but was disappointed that I was not planning on doing it with her right then and there. She did get to pick out her fabric that night but I did not let her sew it until the next day. Now I just need to find another simple project for her to make, I might even try something a little more challenging since she has been doing so good the simple ones.

Doll and Teddy Bear Clothes

With all the rain we have been getting lately, my kids where stuff in the house playing with their toys. One of them asked if I would make a new shirt for their teddy bear. I had some patterns for doll clothes that I had not tried yet so I pulled them out and had my kids help find fabric for them.

 

 

Each of my two youngest boys got pants for their bears and on got a vest. 

 

 

My daughter wanted something that looked a little like a nurses top.

 

Either way they each have a list of things that they still want me to make for the dolls and teddy bears. I just need to get to work sewing more to get them all done.

Kids Hats

Having been busy with kids activities and school, I had not been doing a lot of sewing. A few days ago I was getting bogged down with my school work and decided to take a break to do something more enjoyable for me. While going through my patterns I came across a hat pattern and decided to make it. I started out planning on just making one hat but of course my kids four youngest all liked the hat and wanted me to make them each one. So far I have only made three of the hats, I need to finish the last hat or I will have an upset kid.

The pink hat was the first hat that I made. It was the only hat I had planned on making. I think it is cute and that I might make a flower pin to put on the hat to hold up the brim in the front for when my daughter wants to have it up. 

Below my son shows off his dinosaur hat. The third hat that I made is a stripped hat that we call the dizzy hat because it makes everyone get dizzy when they look at the pattern of the fabric for more than a second. It has two panels on the inside from a piece of Harry Potter fabric to make it fun for him. The last hat I need to make may end up being made out of a sports fabric.