Little Bo Peep Dress

WOOHOO! Ok, yesterday was the Sew for my Guild, so I packed everything up, and made this dress, photographing ALL the steps, so tonight, hopefully, I’ll have a chance to type out all the directions, and then, hopefully by the end of the week, I’ll have a PDF pattern ready to go! front back My […]

Birthday Gifts…

SQUEE! I just finished the Bean’s summer coat. I LOVE it sooooo much, especially the lace I made for the collar. But its too dark now, so you have to wait till tomorrow to see pictures. hopefully it fits. If not, it might be too big, which would be fine, as our weather is the […]

same dress, now a top…

I’m not sure if this reads bohemian or Heidi, but I’m LOVING this new dress pattern… I love flattering comments, so when Sarah posted that she loved the dress too, I offered to draft it to fit her little munchkin. MY 2.5 year old is quite petite, so, since this dress has mucho ease and […]

Scallops…

I'm playing with coat embellishment ideas… Not sure if this is way too deep for scallops…

cutest slippers ever!

I haven’t posted these yet, officially, but you saw them here, and I think they deserve their own post. I searched Ravelry for cute slippers, THAT WOULD STAY ON HER FEET.these were SOOOOO cute, and, perhaps because of the felting?, they stay on her feet! the free pattern is right here, and I have to […]

Katie’s Baby Girl…

needs a new dress. Juse because. My friend Katie liked this dress I made for the Bean….Because she’s as cute as a button. The pockets are just a regular bagged-rectangle, with the top folded over and sewn down with the fake button Because elastic shirring is cute and fun. Katie supplied the fabric, and I LOVE […]

Dinosaur heat-transfers…

Ok, I’m finally getting a chance to write the stuff to go with the pics I posted yesterday! phew! One of my bestest (yup, that’s a word) friends from college (and one of my daughter’s godfathers), is going to be a dad around the end of the summer… He’s been great at discussing dinos with […]

Tatting for KCWC…

If I can do a whole long chain of this tatted lace, it's going on the collar of a coat for the Bean…

practice and improvement…

My awesome friend Erin (Hi Erin!) gave me a bunch of old t-shirts (really old ones for D’s school), to play with…given my recent wadder pile o’knits, I decided to practice with some 90-minute shirts. love love love this handsome boy I’m actually happy with the result! HOORAY! I could fiddle with the pattern a […]

Voila! (aka KCWC day 5)

here it is, in all it’s glory, on my daughter…. I love how forlorn she looks in this picture. It’s because I put her down. she is big into being carried right now. Cute, right? oh wait, what’s this? Of course, right when I got it on her (she was Roo to D’s Tigger all […]