Fun summer dress!

I was trolling several blogs that I follow and one of my favorites the polkadot chair had a great pattern on her Tuesday Tutorial!
I picked up these really cute fabrics at the shop I used to work at, Susan's Calico Creations in Fulton, IL. Mom and I went there for a retreat a few weekends ago. These fabrics are so fun and Miss E just loves them.



She had fun helping decide the layout of the fabrics! The pattern is pretty easy. A little bit of gathering. No biggie after ALL those twirly skirts I have been making!

More fun bags....

I enjoy making bags as gifts. Mr. G finished up preschool this year and I made bags for his teacher and aid. He enjoyed his year and learned many great things.

For Mrs. M, I used denim, Dick & Jane, and alphabet fabric. It was a new pattern for me. The bag pattern is the Miranda Day Bag by Lazy Girl Designs. I really love this pattern and will make many more I'm sure!





The bag for the teacher's aid was such a different style, but REALLY fun to make!
The pattern is Birdie Sling by Amy Butler. Again, such a cute pattern, that I'm sure I will have fun making again.

Just a litte something

My cousin had her 1st baby last September. I finally got to meet this little sweet pea over Memorial Day weekend. Of course I had to take her a twirly skirt an embellished tshirt! It turned out so cute. Just as sweet as she is!

Lynze's Quilt

I am a member of the Trinity Quilters at my church. We make quilts for graduating Seniors in high school to remind them of their church family when they go off into the next part of their life. I had the great joy to make a quilt for Lynze. She is the daughter of my good friend Anne.



Lynze likes to draw, so her Mom scanned many of her drawings and emailed them to me. I then printed them onto fabric to use in the quilt.




She also has favorite sayings, songs, poems and bible verses. I combined some with images and others just printed the text.



To finish the project, I hand quilted it with a "big stitch".
Lynze really loves the quilt, which makes me extremely happy!

My Student

My friend Sarah wanted to learn how to sew. I was very excited to teach her! We have daughters the same age and are having fun sewing for the girls and other projects.
Her blog is so cute! Here is the link so you can see what my star pupil has been sewing.

Simply Said

Twirly Skirt Part 2

As I was preparing to head to Iowa for a fun weekend with friends, I was reminded that sweet little "D's" birthday was the Monday after our visit. Well... what this curly Sue needed for her 4th bday was a twirly skirt. Miss D is a very girly girl! Loves shoes and all things twirly and princess-like!! Thank goodness I had plenty of extra fabric on hand for a skirt that would be similar to Miss E's. That way they could be cute matchy twirly girls together on ISU campus for VEISHEA!!
Her skirt was a little simplified. I used long strips instead of the patchwork squares! A piece of cake!!



Miss D enjoys her skirt! She was playing in the dirt with her skirt all around her. I couldn't help taking a few shots!

SPRING has sprung

Spring is finally here!! Not that I can complain about the winter we had. We had it much better than my friends and family in Iowa. So...as I a think forward to summer I get hungry for fresh produce that I walk out into my back yard to harvest!

My wonderful hubby recognizes my need to "grow stuff" and let me dig some new beds in our yard, inside our fence and out of reach of the neighborhood deer.

Mr. G was very excited about helping me plant the "garden". He helped me choose seeds and is a master waterer. With his help, I planted lettuce (2 types), radishes, spinach, carrots, broccoli and cabbage.









After Sandy tromped through the garden making huge pawprints on top of the spinach, I put up a rope fence to keep her out.
Hopefully if my efforts prove to produce great results.. these beds will become "raised" beds next year.