July Bee blocks

here're this month's bee blocks, I just finished them!

a scrappy square in a square
and an anything goes with a heart theme....

June July knits...

fronts


backs


red linen overalls using the pattern from Purl, 3 pairs of watermelon soakers (longies in size 18-24 months, shorties in 18-24 and 6-12)
I'm working on a pair of blue and white longies now, with clouds and the sunshine on the bum.
I still have enough of all three colors to make one more small pair... but I'm not sure I want to... maybe I should make something more xmas-y instead.... we'll see...

...and for the Bean...

She was equally DESPARATE for the sample fruit at the LBIQF, so, since I bought the moose pattern for D, I had to be fair, and buy the fruit pattern for the bean. It's Fresh Picked pincushions by Heather Bailey.
20 minutes of machine sewing, 2.5 hours of hand sewing. Of course, I was watching TiVo-ed SYTYCD, so that probably delayed me a bit. I used cotton scraps, and some Eco-felt I had in the craft closet. Wool would have been better, but I didn't have it in the right colors.
It's 2am. I sure hope she likes these as much as she liked the display...

A child's view of the LBIQF

D took my phone and took pictures of his favorite quilts/my knee/other people taking pictures of their favorite quilts.
I got it back by asking to take a picture of him.
The Bean was OBSESSED with the peacock quilt.

Darren needed a moose.

He insisted that he desperately needed me to buy the pattern (seen at the quilt festival, and earned through good behavior) and make him a moose. TONIGHT.
BEFORE BED.

So here he is, happy with his moose. (pattern by Carol's Zoo, fabric is horribly shreddy cotton velvet remnant that I had in my stash. D INSISTED that none of the minkee or fleece I had were the right color, because a moose MUST be brown)

Sneak peak...

20 minute eyeglass case

I used the idea from making this bag to whip up an eyeglass case for my gram...

(the top isn't uneven, it's just at an angle, I swear)

sooo happy! I got another old measuring tape from my gram, hence the thank you gift...

Coolest bag ever!

I went to the Long Beach International Quilt Festival last night, for preview night, and came home with some awesome goodies. (I'll show them in a different post)

the COOLEST thing I found, though, was this pattern. I bought the pattern and the kit, in colors for my MIL (xmas is only 5 months away!)...

the Bean immediately stole it and filled it. (hence the froggie and rattle inside)

it uses bits of a metal measuring tape to make the hinge! soooo cool!

I'm a huge fan, plus, it took longer to cut than to sew up!
Gotta love fast and easy and cool, right?

clearly, everyone is going to be getting a bag for xmas.

(BTW, the pattern is HORRIBLY written, so I can't really recommend it, but the IDEA is awesome, so, maybe it's worth it?)

Watermelon shorties, take 3...

K, so the first longies were in size 18-24, and they were too big, but with a drawstring waist, and a big cloth diaper, they'll stay up. Then I made a pair of 12-18 sized shorties, equally too big. So here's pair #3, sized 6-12 month, over a cloth diaper, and they fit my 22month old PERFECTLY. I'm sooooo pleased with the finished product!

Happy Birthday to me!

Happy Birthday 2010 from Christopher Burke on Vimeo.

I think I might have the coolest and most wonderful husband EVER!

(PLUS, my 3 little pigs dress got posted over at MADE, (near the bottom of the post), so I'm extra psyched)

WATERMELON LONGIES!

Prepare yourself for CUTENESS!

aren't they RIDICULOUSLY awesome?!?!?!?
I'm sooooooo stoked that they came out just as I imagined them!
they're a little big/long, but, as they're wool, I made them big so they'd fit in the winter...

I added the heart to the front, like Raggedy Ann had... (since the pattern I used as a starting point was Budgie Bloomers, which is inspired by Raggedy Ann's clothes....)
the rest of the front is plain....
I'M IN LOVE!

trying to get a good shot...

I made this dress well over a year ago... maybe even while I was still preggers... I think I photographed it when I made it, but now that its ON my daughter, I'd love a pic...

of course, getting a 21month old to POSE is NOT going to happen...
so here she was climbing a fence

and here she is looking for snails in a neighbor's yard

and here she (and D, also in homemade head to toe) is watching a peacock run past... (visible if you enlarge the pic)

June Bee blocks....

k, I'm in 3 bees right now, and I'm falling behind! I totally need to get cracking on July's blocks! I DID finish my june blocks in time, and got them out the door by the 28th of June.... so the delay is not me slacking in sewing, but in posting... oh well...

a "confetti" block (on kona raisin)

for a siggy block she asked for a smaller block with our personal favorites added... I used scraps from the Bean's reversible dress, my new bag, C's quilt, and C's shirt... I love them all, and they make me happy....

here's an indian hatchet block, and a small, embroidered (by machine) siggy block to go with it...
I still haven't done the blocks for the 3rd bee, because I am a horrible daughter (it was my mom's month, so I know she'll forgive me if I'm late!)

bumbling along...

I'm working my way through a ton of tute/patterns online right now, trying to figure out exactly what I want...

This came out pretty cute, if I do say so myself...

of course, the novelty print (which is OBVI from Momen+), helps a great deal... I LOVE the little mushrooms!

the inside holds lips of paper on the left, and a notepad on the right...

what notepad is so special as to deserve a fancy notepad holder thing-y?

tada! C sat down and made my daily to-do list super pretty! i've been using an icky Word table that I made up a few months ago, so for our anniversary, he took the time to make it all fancy and pretty...

i LOVE it!

baby quilts for a friend's twins...

tada!

here's the finished product...

a friend from when I did Stroller Strides just had twins, and to celebrate their first 100 days (a Korean tradition?), they had a lovely little party... I made these coordinated blankets for the little ones...

blue for Bennet

pink for Brooke....

I had the ruffle fabric and the minkee backing in my stash already, so all I had to do was get coordinating B&W fabric for the top.... C did the lettering design for me, so then it was just a matter of blanket stitching all the letters down, using my ruffle foot to attach them, and sewing it up... two big (45" squares) blankets in about 4 hours of work!

the back is super awesomely soft light blue minkee (the pink trim has flecks of baby blue, so it matches, I swear!), which I also used at xmas time to make scoodies...

here's a close-up of part of Brooke's name

and of Bennets...