Pixie Girl

This is the Pixie Girl by Ellie Inspired 

I just love how it turned out.  I had this fabric from last summer.  It is so light weight I just knew when I saw this pattern that this was the perfect fabric to use from my stash. It was a generous 60" wide so plenty of room to cut all those flounces.

I am just loving the gathered little bodice. I only wish that the binding along the top was not on the bias. I want those dots to go straight. That is just the weird side of me I guess.

The pattern is made to be worn alone. But, you know us we have to be modest. I prefer to settle that now rather than fight a change when they get older.

Cute twirl factor!

Check it out it is a pretty quick sew!

Strawberry Days Carnival

We can't go to the carnival without something strawberry can we?  I have wanted to since we moved here three years ago.  Finally I did it!  I wasn't able to get any fabulous Photos.  Little Libby just doesn't want to pose for me.  CeCe tried on V's since she was out of town.

I went with a Lil Blue Boo inspiration to make dresses out of knit with the seams exposed.  I used Simplicity 3899 because it had raglan type sleeves.  It worked great but then came the problem: what to do with the neckline.  I opted to roll hem it and then add shirring.  I think they turned out pretty darn cute!

Did I mention we needed hair bows too?  The strawberry is a free design from Mystic Threads.

 

These were so simple and fast I really have no excuse for the pounds of knit sitting around here.  Not to mention that I found a super fun t-shirt at the thrift store for a $1 and another for $2...just wait until you see it.

And as per Nichole's suggestion I found the cutest knit sheet at the thrift store too!

Buried in Ruffles

Lately I have been consumed with polka dots and ruffles.

Minnie Mouse style aprons to be exact.

 I had the fortune of being asked to make aprons for a convention.  Did I know what I said yes to?  I did a test one to see what my time would be like to make one.  I don't think it calculated to the same as when I did them assembly style.  Which I thought would be faster!  It probably still was it just seemed to take foooorrrreeevvverrrrr!

I really wanted to gather these ruffles right on to the aprons but I just couldn't get it to gather as tight as I needed it to.  That was a real bummer to have to add the extra step in there.

It started with hemmed 3" strips. Thank heavens for the rolled hem foot!

Then ruffle that stuff up.  120" per apron.

That is 126 yards of ruffled goodness people!

(picture only shows about half of them)

It seemed to go on and on from there...pockets, ties, top band.  I had planned to put on my label on with the waist band, well that was totally over looked as I got to the last step.  Must have been tired of thinking by then.  Bummer!

note to self: anything times 40 will take forever!

Valentine blocks

Well I realized as I posted the birthday boards that I never showed you my Valentine ones.  May have been slightly distracted in February.  I would love a redo if the month could come out different!  (saying that just makes my vision blurry with tears wanting to flow over...not today, please)

On with the blocks.  Here is what I made.  I had a couple friends come over and make some blocks too.

Here are mine...sorry about the glare.

Here are a couple of theirs.

And because we can't leave well enough alone. Here I turned mine over and made spring blocks

And my friend turned over her Love blocks and made Fall

 

Aren't we genuineness?  hehehe

Blocks turned around

Nothing like getting the most out of what you have...I've flipped a couple of the blocks from the birthday boards and now we can use it for all sorts of things.

 By they way you can buy the kits from me for $6 plus shipping.

"Flat" Headbands

These were so fun and so versatile.  The more colorful the more it could match anything.

We took a couple minutes to dig through the scraps. 

Tie style headbands.

 My daughter really want a vintage look. So I tried one with some lace and a ribbon rose.

The roses were made using the tutorial from here

I used my rolled hem foot to hem the edges.  If you don't have one of these puppies it may be something you want to go try out at your local dealer.

Candy!!!

Now we are talking candy for giants!

Junie had a birthday party.  Candy/Movie theme.  See she is a teenager now and what do teenagers love?  Well mine love candy!  In fact all her friends gave her candy for her presents.  

For the party favors, besides the candy bar, which they at during the movie and didn't end up filling their bags to take home, I made Jolly Rancher pillows. Fun huh?!

I used elastic at the ends and they stuffed the pillows when they got here (okay real story: I didn't finish the pillows before they got here so stuffing them became their activity at the party.  They loved it)

Junie came up with all sorts of names for her friends Jolly Rancher Flavors.  so cute!

Plenty of fun and plenty of food.