woolie bunny

A bunny! I made her from Fiona’s pattern. An easy pattern really, but I made it hard for myself by using wool instead of the suggested flannel. It’s a pain trying to turn the limbs inside out with such thick fabric. The wool does give her a lovely fuzzy texture that’s nice to cuddle with. Abby used her as a nap buddy right away after I finished her this morning.

Here’s another shot without the skirt. I used a Heather Ross print for her skirt. I’m almost tempted to sew it without changing thread, but decided not to and rethread my machine. I’m glad I did! Can you spot another Heather print there?

hoops

These are for another swap over on Flickr, hexies! I’m in love with them and it’s easy to stitch them up, as long as I have the patience to cut the fabrics in advance and I can sit quietly with no baby or toddler to bother me. Since they are quite easy, I decided to make two hoops to send. One is 8″ and the other is 7″. Hope you’ll like them, secret partner!

a pillow and a mouse

Well, technically only a pillow cover since it’s to be sent away for a swap. It would be more expensive to ship a big pillow, right? This for the Pillow Talk Swap over on Flickr, made from Denyse Schmidt’s Single Girl pattern. I used Kona Cotton and a bunch of my scraps. The backing is a 30s reproduction print that I recently got at a new quilt shop close to my home. It’s like 5 minutes drive! It’s a good thing they don’t sell too much designers’ fabric so my wallet is safe.

And the mouse is for a contest over at my local fabric shop, made from Sewing Stars’ pattern. Cute, no? Any ideas for it’s name?

on top of the world

Almost two months and look at those cheeks. Abby was never this chubby so I’m always amazed when I see him.

No crafty things to show you because I’m busy working on my swap projects!

thursday’s skirt

Sew along lazy days skirt in Kokka fabric and linen trim. I made this one a little bigger to fit her until summer because the pink one the other day is a perfect fit.

monday’s skirt

I joined Lazy Days Skirt sew along here and this is the skirt of the day. Made in pink to please Abby and made from Munki fabric to please me. In true lazy spirit, I cut this from the bottom part of a pajama top so no hemming is necessary. I also added the cute monkey tag from the pj to the tell the back of the skirt from the front but my model won’t let me take off her new skirt!

nap time sewing

I got baby and toddler to nap at the same time (yay!) and did some sewing. Now if only I don’t have dinner to prepare…

show and tell

Stash and Dash bags from an Amy  Butler’s pattern. I get to keep one and the others are for my mom.

Pincushions made totally from scraps. Yay for scraps!

Big sister’s mess and little brother at three and a half weeks.

crazy lady’s house

For September, John sent plain gray Kona Cotton and requested little houses to make a neighborhood quilt. I found that little bird in my scrap box and knew that I had to use it. So this is the crazy lady’s house. Every neighborhood should have one, right? She painted her house blue and kept lots of pets, including that bird there. I want to make a tree too but decided not to. Someday I  want to make a quilt like that too.

I finished sewing all of the blocks for the mod quilt sampler and now I need to cut the sashings. That is quite a big project and I feel like I’m kind of on a sewing limbo here, I don’t want to start (another) big project with two kids on the background but I want to make something, anything! So I signed up for two swaps due in November. I hope that’s plenty of time to get me balanced on the two kids thing and sewing. One is for pillows and the other one is for embroidery. Just seeing the inspiration mosaics from other swappers are making me happy!

received!

It’s here, people! My fabulous partner from Hawaii, Amber, sent this. Apparently there’s quite a story behind it. I love, love, love it so much! And she sent a piece of Munki too! What could be better?

I actually saw this quilt on the DQS7 pool and immediately mark it as my favorite. I was so happy to see a bit of pink when I open the package because I was sure I’ve seen it before. Yay for me and yay for Amber too!