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...

Finished!

I got my strippy quilts back from the longarm ladies -- and they did an amazing job! I just finished binding mine, and now I am doing Lydia's (TBP = to be posted when done).

Check out the back:

they used a variegated blue thread and I backed it with a 600 thread count sateen so it can be used as a blanket, but also it could be reversed and have the white side facing up (though that would be hard for me, I admit).

For Stephen

Okay -- after much frustration with the horribleness of this pattern -- it had about 2 whole sentences of so-called instructions with hand-drawn penscratch trying to pass for pattern illustration -- and after having ripped it out and re-sewn it not once, not twice, but THRICE: here is baby Stephen's hedgehog romper (his birthday is tomorrow :). But it turns out the pattern is actually very simple -- if only the instructions had not been written by a simpleTON. I am totally in love with this fabric -- it is a Japanese import --- look closely at the little mushrooms and creatures -- it's so cute. Also, this project gave me the excuse to buy a snap installer (or whatever you call it), and now I can use snaps on all manner of other items.

Enjoy.

sew distracted

OK -- I have been off the radar lately -- but mostly because both my quilts were at the longarm place and now they have to be trimmed and bound before I can post pictures of them. BUT -- I got antsy in the midst of some longer projects (quilts, a coat and that freakin' degrade dress that is going to SUCK! but now I have to finish it) -- sewwwww.... I made a purse! it has one major problem, which is that the lining is too bunchy -- basically there is too much of the lining -- but I can't really fix that now and at least I can sort of hide it...