Toddler Jean Skirt

I have been having a really hard time finding a cute 4th of July Outfit for my Sweet Pea. You know, one that isn't going to cost me an arm and a leg. So, I decided that I would try to make my own. WITHOUT A PATTERN!! I have never sewn clothing in my life. (aside from trying to do my witch costume last year. It's still not finished) AND I used an old pair of my jeans and pajamas to do it.

Here is what I came up with:

A cute little jean skirt with blue and red ruffles on the bottom.


And she loves it. She just wanted to wear it all afternoon.

Eye Spy Book Finished!!

I know it's taken me FOREVER to get this finished! But I have been forbidden by my Hubby to start any more crafty things until everything else is finished. So, I hunted around my house to find things to put into the Eye Spy Bag. I found some great buttons, pompom, stars, and other things. I think it worked out great.

Here it is:
The little tag is there so I can attach a laminated list of what is in the bag to spy. Yea for completing crafts.

Oh, and I made this out of an old shirt that my Hubby absolutely LOVED when we were dating. I LOVE reusing old clothes for new things

Eye Spy Bag Preview

Here is the Eye Spy Bag that I was working on. I have it all put together. I have the filling. I just don't have all the little things to "spy" in the bag.
What would you put in it?

Quiet Book Preview

Since it's taking me so long to get this thing finished and I just haven't been able to get back to it in a few weeks, here is what I've done so far:


Pages 1 & 2:

Page 1 is a beach ball with stars, circles and hearts that you can shake.
Page 2 is a pair of shoes where my little ones can thread the laces (not there yet) and practice tying their shoes.

Pages 3&4:

Page 3 is a set of pockets with snaps. They can practice doing snaps. (I haven't decided what to put in them yet. ideas?)
Page 4 is 4 hearts that flip open. I am going to place a picture of each member of our family in each heart.

Pages 5&6:

Page 5 is an apple tree. The apples velcro to the tree.
Page 6 is a pond with 6 Ducks. (I think it's a little bare, but I didn't know what else to add)

Pages 7&8:

Page 7 is a set of balloons. They all velcro to the sky, but are still attached to the book so they don't get lost. (Sweet Pea HATES that they don't come off the page)
Page 8 is Stars.


Page 9:

Page 9 is a bunch of flowers with buttons as their centers. Three of the flowers come off. They attach by the buttons, so Sweet Pea and Green Bean can practice doing their buttons.


I haven't decided what I'm going to do for the Cover of my book. We'll just have to see. I have also not decided how to bind the book. Ideas?

Embellished Baby Burp Cloths

I have been trying to get through some of my never ending scraps and thought that embellishing some burp rags would be cute for my Green Bean when he gets here. Here are a couple that I did:


Easy-peasy and now they aren't boring.

My Quiet Creation in Progress

I'm not apologizing for not being here. I have been working on something that I think is going spectacularly. I am making a quiet book for my little ones. It is taking longer than I thought and my computer is currently buried under fabric and buttons and scissors and who knows what else. So, I just don't get to it. (not posting from my own computer)

You don't get to see any pictures yet. (mostly because I haven't taken any) But you will when it's all finished. I'm really excited. I designed it myself and am pretty proud of it. Hopefully it will be finished in a couple of days. They are harder to create than I originally thought.

Sorry, you have to wait in suspense. But it will be worth the wait. I promise.

Fabric Ball

I wanted to make a fabric ball to match the fabric block I made for my little Sweet Pea. So, I found some old clothes in colors that I liked and began cutting.
Then I sewed all the pieces together.

And then I stuffed the ball. I stuffed it with pieces of batting. (it took a while to cut it up) It's a little lumpier than I would have liked, but it's soft and she loves it.

The Fixer-Upper Fixed

I finished my work in saving my favorite blanket. The BEFORE pictures are HERE.

I did move to using a sewing machine to put the patches on, instead of hand-stitching them. (I don't know what I was thinking. I was on the edge of the big blanket, my machine would work great)


The largest block that was fraying all over.


A little triangle of lost hope, renewed.

It's a Fixer Upper

I have a favorite quilt from when I was a kid. (I still feel like one by the way) This quilt was given to my parents for their wedding. It was hand quilted. However, it is now wearing completely through. It's so sad. So I'm going to patch it up. I have no idea how one should go about this and I'm probably going to be doing it the hard way, but I'm doing it anyway.


All the fabric wearing through.


I'm adding batting under the new pieces of fabric and hand stitching them onto the old blanket.

I will take pictures for you to see how it goes.

Another Use for Your Pants

I was going through a bunch of stuff I have (getting ready for our garage sale this weekend) and I found these two bags that I made. I'm pretty proud of them. They are made out of old jeans and a pair of my dad's old Docker's.

I measured the size of what I wanted to put into them (in this case, scriptures) and then cut the pants and sewed them all together.

I used the waist band for the shoulder strap. I liked the way it looked. In this one, I kept the pocket. It was easier than sewing my own pocket.
On this one, I un-stitched the belt loops and then restitched them onto the bag for decoration.

These were extremely easy to make. I mean, I made them when I was in high school and couldn't sew anything but a straight line. (what am I talking about? I STILL can't sew anything but a straight line)