Spring Jacket

spring jacket / square photo

I love everything about this jacket:
lightweight
quick to grab
colorful
fits
ties
ruffles
hooded
i made it
it rocks!

Step one

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Step four

Finished, but sideways pictures

Birthday Boy

birthday boy

I can hardly believe my little boy is five years old now. He still loves to learn new things and be the boss of every one. He either wants a sister or a bird. I don't know whose heart he melts more: his moms or his dads. My five year old can talk faster than I can and I can understand every word. He LOVES books and his favorite time of day is story time with Mommy.
I cannot imagine life with a different kid in our house! I love you, smarty pants! Keep learning new things every day.

Mending

2 puppy ears and an earth worm have been mended. ONE HAPPY little boy!

Baby Blanket

Monkeys for a friends new baby boy coming soon. Also finished the soccer baby gown with some elastic along the bottom. I think I'm in love with elastic now. Here's the first steps to the gown!

Finally Finished

I have been working on these two for quite some time. Finally got them finished to ship to New Jersey this week. Bitofwhimsy doll pattern on etsy.com

Refashion Shirt to Baby Gown

These are the two shirts that had to be cut up for this project. Girls, (you know who I'm talking about it!) it was time for this shirt to be used up!

These are the pieces to be sewn together:

And this is the final gown for baby, (minus elastic at the bottom.)

I hope there is one happy Auntie out there! I used this tutorial here. Fantastic!

A Crown

For Nick to wear at his birthday party. I don't know if he will actually wear it, but it was fun to make for him~

New Shorts

I found this T-shirt at goodwill also. Although it would have made a cute shirt for me, I've been wanting to make shorts for my son. So this striped T became shorts tonight! 20 minutes total, (not counting the time it took me to find the tutorial I had bookmarked.)

Striped T-shirt.











Cut pieces.














New shorts that just need the elastic put in.














The vertical striped shorts are the ones I used as a pattern. I'm afraid the ones I made may be a bit short in the waist, but we'll find out. If they are, I have some left-over blue T-shirt material that can be the cuffs and the waist. I'll make it work!