Killy's cold shoulder

I won't let him sit on my lap, because I'm knitting, so he's on the coffee table, as far from me as his fluffy orange butt can get, despite the fact that he's crowded by books and trains.

the three little pigs!

Hey Little Bean, who's that on your dress?

Oh my! the three little pigs?

they're PINK! But you'd better watch out, 'cause here comes:

the BIG BAD WOLF!

it even looks good SOAKING WET!

(I'm so proud of this dress! I used the pattern from the Warhol dress on MADE, but I had to draft a size in between the sizes Dana made so it would fit the Bean. then I created the pig and wolf appliqués, which are both fabric and thread painted, and sewed them on. LOVE THEM! and, luckily, so does the Bean!)

Sneak peak!

Gifts for a friends twin babies... Pale blue minkee on the back of both.

Watermelon longies.

I need to stitch in the black seeds, but I'm soooo pleased with how they're comin' out! I think I need another green, lighter, so I can make the legs stripey. More like a watermelon. Or maybe I'll just do green and white. Not sure yet. Must consult with the graphic designer-in-residence (C).

Sneak peek...

I'm waiting for paint to dry....

Another water bottle cozy

Requested by my mom, to match her birthday present bag, after she saw all of ours.

Rubber bands!

They're awesome! They turn DPNs into regular (but shorter) knitting needles. Perfect for the 30 stitches I'm working on right now.

Underpants for the little dude.

I managed to get 1.75 pair (the bottom pair needs leg casings) done during naptime. The boy didn't nap, of course, and now the girl is wailing at me because she woke up cranky and I won't let her play with my needles. Bad mama. I've got one more blue pair like these, and then I'll make 3 that have that weird-n-wasteful (of my time and energy) boy fly/flap thing. After polling my husband and several close dude friends, I don't see why they're standard, it's really not that hard to pull down the waistband, but I'll make some just in case.

The art of mending.

That should be a book or a blog or something. The topic is probably covered in The Gentle Art of Domesticity...
Anyway, D ripped some holes in the knee of a pair of Mama-made linen pants, so I needed to fix them... I save my scraps, so I *probably* have some of this fabric somewhere, but I wanted to do this quickly before the pants got swallowed by my to-do pile.
So I quickly cut out a car from this cotton-linen blend Echino print, interfaced the back of it (for stability), and blanket stitched the patch centered over the holes.
It took about 15 minutes to do (with help from the 20mo who sat on my lap and who thinks pushing buttons on my machine is great fun. So I guess I killed two birds with one stone: D got fixed pants, and the bean got time with mama to talk about color, steal some thread spools, and push buttons on the machine.
Well worth it.

fun designing...

my mom has been visiting a lot lately, going back and forth between my house and my sisters, to visit the grandkids...

She wants to make a quilt with Aylish, (my niece), so we designed this quilt with my Bernina quilting software...

I can't wait to see how it turns out!