OK I admit it...

I finished this quilt like a month ago -- pretty much a week or so after my post showing the quilt on my bed. But Lydia seized it and demanded its immediate presence on her bed. I was only able to (poorly -- sorry about the foreshortening) photograph it today because she reminded me that I had promised to sew a tag on it -- which I just did:

Of course I was harshly criticized and berated for doing this imperfectly and for not using my telepathic abilities to understand certain requests such as, "I want that one pattern with the two hearts but not just with the lines coming down" and also "I want the tag to be on the back of the purple farfalle fabric not off the lines of it like this!"

But somehow I have not yet been fired.

Look what a good job the longarm quilting ladies did in picking this little quilt pattern (my only specification was that it had to have hearts):

sew regal

Check out Camellia's HOT new natural hair!

I have been telling her for years: Go Natural! You been swindled! You been bamboozled! Stop straightening your crown:

We didn't land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on us!

(OK -- just kidding -- this really was her idea -- but doesn't it look HOT?)

sew over slings....

and yet ... here is number THREE (with one more ordered) in less than a month!!! Ugh. How boring. I am only posting this one because I LOVE this fabric (and as you all know I am a fabric ho).

I used brown bias for the binding and contrast stitched it with some new teal thread I just got:

YOU look at it....

... because I never want to see it again! This was the stupidest idea I ever had and it sucks. But here it is. And if you try to be positive and say that you think it looks nice, that's because you haven't seen me wearing it. Sew wah.

Oh and P.S. -- I'm still going to wear it anyway.

That's my new pact with myself. Even if something looks bad on me -- if I like the fabrics and think it would look good on a taller, usually thinner, person -- then I'll wear it anyway -- even if it makes me look frumpy.

We'll see how long this pact lasts.

another t-shirt...

Isn't she seewwwwww cool?

yes, I made another sling...

...and I'll probably have made 2 or 3 more before summer begins. It happens -- all these people reproducing and then looking at me sadly as if to say, "but you made so many for all those other people, and I'm your friend too.....".

This one is particularly special though. It's for Kathryn, and it is made from the double-sided dupioni sash that I wore as the maid of honor in her wedding. All I had to do was sew it around the rings and add a pocket (in this amazing hot pink silk that I could NOT resist.... it was like a beautiful slice of cake, sitting on that shelf in the fabric store...). Then I decided to go with black rings to bring out the shine of the silk:

and so I settled on a glass button (which is purely decorative, the pocket has a velcro closure).

I can't wait for the new baby to poop on the silk.

shirts

I got this idea to make Lydia some cute t-shirts using up small pieces I had left of large-print fabrics from the Heather Bailey website. This first one happens to be a HB print, but I made another one from some Garden Party prints by Anna Maria. I'll post those when she wears them...