A little Halloween and a little mother goose

The nursery rhyme biblets are oh so popular! I get asked to make them quite often. We absolutely love these for our babies! They can be found on the rocking chair arm, the couch arms, along with a few other spots around the house where we might bottle or breast feed baby. Small and easily handled as compare to a full size diaper when babies are small. Comfortable and absorbent at the neck, it helps keep milk from finding that neck area that is so hard to get to!

And then my little Ben needs a Halloween treat. Since he is still small there is no need for a regular size bib, so I made him one of my drooler/first foods bibs. Reversible, of course!

Sewing away!
Brenda

Halloween Bibs for the Girls

  
  

I love love love Halloween! But here's how this happened. I had listed fabrics and designs on Etsy for my reversible pocket bib, and my daughter sent me her order right away. She chose the co-ordinating fabrics and the designs. I did the rest. The girls are going to love them. I just changed the way I did the pocket. It's always been reversible, but to the one side when you reverse the pocket it creates a pocket which certainly catches food ... but I didn't like the total reversal look. So we'll see what she says about the "new and improved" reversible pocket.

Sewing away!

Tristen's Football Themed On The Go Set

 
 
 

Another firefighter had a baby! This one requested a sports theme. Believe it or not I had a very difficult time finding sports fabric that had many sports put together so I had to ask them for a favorite .... football it was. Found this and thought it was perfect for little Tristen. This time I exchanged the burp pad for a small drooler/first food bib and added in a couple biblets ... because they are FABULOUS for feeding time!

Sewing away!

Gift Bags for Macy's 1st Birthday

 

We have a very special birthday coming up! Our little Macy is going to turn 1. We call her our little Bee so we wanted to incorporate that into the theme of her party. I have no idea what is going in these, but they'll be great for our guests for years to come. A wonderful little tote to carry their little treasures.


Still sewing!

Ava Grace On the Go Set

Another new baby girl! I just find it so much easier to sew for girls than boys, probably because I only had girls. The only direction I received for this set was that the colors needed to be pink, brown, and white. When I looked at their bedding everything was pretty plain and used mostly satins. Here's what I came up with ... I hope they'll love it.

See, I have been quite busy sewing!

Brenda

4th of July Bibs

I like to make sure we have bibs for the holidays! We loved how this lettering turned out on Macy's bib! But Leila's bib it too cute as well.

Still sewing ....

Brenda

Grizzlies Diaper Cover

   

Recently I was helping out my other niece, Jessica, with her cute little puppies. Wish I had pics for you because they are so very cute! Grizzy is a Yorkie and has some challenges with marking everywhere, including in the house. She had 1, I guess they're called dog diapers, dog diaper. As I was watching 6, count them six dogs one evening, Grizzly decided that he liked me and wanted to hang out. Well that was great, however .... his diaper needed to be washed! Not so fresh smelling. So that's how this project came about. Fits great and we're making 2 more.

Now there's no excuse for a dirty diaper!

Sewing on....
Brenda

New Set for baby Logan

    

Here's the 6 piece On The Go Set I made for new baby Logan.

I create these custom sets using the theme that the parents have requested. In this case the theme was the woods and nature. Along with the theme, I am given a color scheme .... I think it turned out cute and heard that they loved it.

Sewing away ....
Brenda

Little Mermaid & Care Bear Toddler Pillowcases

Leila loves the Little Mermaid (and Nemo) - Ariel beats out Nemo because of the music. We love to start singing Ah Ah AH, Ah Ah AH, and let her start singing her favorite part of her "Part of Your World" song.

I had noticed that she had a very flat toddler pillow with an old boring pillowcase on it awhile ago. I purchased a nice new toddler pillow and made 2 pillowcases for her to use. I appliqued Ariel (purchased from Etsy seller) onto a piece of fabric I had leftover from her bedding and found some Care Bear fabric that I still had on hand from one of the girl's blankets when they were little. (Leila loves her Care Bears too).

I think the new pillow and her pillowcases are a hit!

Bibs Bibs Bibs

As many of you know, I have a mental block when it comes to things for boys. I can't help it -- we have girls! So I've been working on a few bibs specifically for those precious little boys. One of these days I'll work on coveralls for them.
For now, here's what's new on the boy front.

What can I say? All of you are having boys!

Kate's little A-line Reversible Dress

Thought I'd better get out here with some new pictures of things I've been working on. I wouldn't want anyone to think that I'm not doing anything this summer. LOL

I just finished a dress for little Kate. Her mom wanted a reversible A-line dress that would be suitable to wear with or without a top underneath. She picked out her fabric, beautiful Michael Miller prints, and had them sent to me from another Etsy store.

Since I can never just make a simple dress, I had to use a few of the scraps to make a fabric flower pin that adds that extra something to a simple, cute, dress.

Fun, fun, fun!

Kelsey and me

It has been quite awhile since I've posted out here (once again). Never enough time in the day and my least favorite thing to do is write!
Anyway, I spent a few days with my niece this summer. She was interested in sewing so we decided on 2 relatively simple projects: pillowcase and heart pillow
She learned how to thread and operate my embroidery machine, and regular machine, as well as choosing and co-ordinating fabrics.
We had a fun time together and found our own rythmn.
A good team! Right Kelss?

Western "Boss" Bib

After I complete an unfinished project, I like to add a quick project of my choosing into the mix. I don't make many boy items, and baby Ben is coming over tomorrow, so I thought I'd sew him up a couple bibs.

I found this wonderful piece of western style fabric in my stash. I have a limited amount, so I thought it might make a few cute bibs. Thought about putting an applique star with Sheriff, but found this embroidery file in my catalog and thought ..... Boss, was the way to go.

It's all in the details ..... right? Edges are double topstitched, a pocket for catching various fumbled foods, and it's reversible. (Turn it over and flip the pocket). The Western print is a good quality cotton, backed with soft french terry, and sandwiched inside is a layer of cotton batting.

Quick fun project .... need to make another boy bib to have for Ben tomorrow.

Little Ben's Bumper Pads

OK, so this has a very long story to go with it .... I offered to make his bedding after we found out she was pregnant. I owed her a big one, we bartered. My friend said thanks but no thanks. I offered to help again, we did some sewing 1 day (I got the crib bedskirt made that day). We tried to unsucessfully schedule another sew day. She had the baby, and an incomplete nursery set. Little Ben was born with a broken heart, literally. He's all fixed up and growing like a weed now, almost 3 months. I visited them about a month and a half ago and saw that the bedding was getting there, but not finished. I offered to take it home and finish it. I got side tracked by other projects and committments.

Anyway, she did her own thing. It's wonderful ..... She took a neutral fabric and made her color splashes in the outline of Winnie the Pooh heads (she likes the traditional and was not happy with the Pooh choices out there). We put double-sided adhesive to apply them and then she outlined all the heads with a running stitch. It's going to be so cute when Ben FINALLY gets his crib bedding!

Now on to finish the binding on his quilt!