For my budding artist

A portfolio. I bought a piece of story board and cut it in half, so now it measures 10x15. Perfect! It incorperates my new craze, colored duct tape, and a long time, inexplicable obsession, paint swatches. When he gets a little bigger he'll make his own. But for now I am so happy to have a special place for Nash's paintings and stampings and drawings. Though this project wasn't in the book, I have to say a lot of elements come from (again) Kid Made Modern. It's so inspiring. I feel like it would make a special gift, too.

Catch up time! Still sewing every day...

Catching up! Lots of catching up to do with my posting. One reason I've been waiting to post pictures is that I've been working on a lot of gifts lately. Nierman baby, Bursuker baby, McFarland baby, Penn baby, Howell baby, Arch-Andorsky baby, Ouk baby, and on and on. Seriously. Lots of babies. Which makes me super super happy! Now that they're out, here are some photos.
The Noa Nierman Mermaids:
This taggie has sewn tags instead of the normal ribbon. This is a very special baby, so it was definitely worth the effort! The mermaids are from the very talented Heather Ross, and the fabric is a super soft tight-woven cotton. There's flannel inside for some stability and weight, and the reverse it a sparkley linen, which makes me giddy.
And a bib to go along with the taggie. You'd almost miss it if you didn't look closely; I am super happy with Noa's little name stamped in the wave.

Bibs for Fischer Green Howell (what an amazing name!!)
Twins.
Baby Eve's nature taggie.

Some dolly friends.
And here's my neeeeeew fabric stash!!!!!!!!!

All my friends are pregnant

I'm only lying a little bit. Most of my friends are pregnant. Which I love! Babies babies babies means sewing sewing sewing. My very favorite things to make are things for little ones. And I think it's so much fun to get new things for a new baby, even if it's not your first baby and you really have everything you need. So I've decided I need to stockpile, and made a trip out last night to the quilting store and the fabric store for, um, a few, ahem, new things.


I really do better with the creativity and putting things together when I don't have to run out and find what I think I want. Yay for a new supply!

I finished up a little quilt I have been thinking about for awhile. It's very simple and Springy. I think I'm about to get into linen. It's so simple and beautiful. I like things to either be starched and perfect, or purposefully wrinkled. This is backed with a tan linen and lightly quilted with yarn pulled through and knotted.



Made another quick blanky with sleeping owls at night and a blue sky on the other side.



Then with the little bit of fabric I had left over from that I made a sweet little burp cloth. This is something that's really easy to do and looks much nice than the cheapy Carter's ones! I made a few others too, while I was at it.




And that's about it for the last few days. I have some other dollhouses and pinnies I'll post ASAP.