Penny: Newborn pics

52 Finishes: Week 32- Baby Weber's Blessing Dress

My little brother Ian and his wife Karissa are having their first baby in February, a little girl. We're all so excited for them! I wanted to make her blessing dress, and they were nice enough to humor me :) I can honestly say it's one of my most favorite things I've ever made. (Max's purple suit being one of my other favorites)

 I used the same idea as Ellorie's Baptism dress, only smaller for a baby.  The dress has bridal lace on the bodice, sleeves and back. Lace has embroidery and beading With cap sleeves, back button opening, and long gathered skirt with ruffles. 

 Dress is 21 inches long. Chest is 18.5 inches. It's made from soft cotton sateen fabric, it makes up the base of the dress as well as the ruffles. I love this fabric because it's so soft and comfy against baby's skin.

 If the baby looks a little manly, he is.  Sorry Charlie!!

To see my other finishes, click here.  To get a dress of your own, click here.

52 Finishes: Week 31- Ellorie's Dress

My friend Brittany is an Artist.  A couple months ago I asked her if she would trade me a dress for a painting of Max.  She agreed, and made THIS awesome painting of Max.  I had the idea of what I wanted to make for a while now, but actually made the dress last week.  Here it is!  Modeling it is my niece Alexis.  The dress is for Brittany's almost 8 year old who is getting baptized in January. 

It's made out of Cotton Sateen mostly, but has a lace overlay on the skirt.  There is also a Satin Sash and ribbon.

 I think it turned our really cute, there were a couple areas I had to troubleshoot.  Like the ruffles- they were er.... fun to work with.  Overall, I am in LOVE, it was a pretty great project.  Its fun to make something from scratch and have it work out.

To see my other finishes, click HERE

You be the mom…

Jayne really loves to play house, like REALLY loves it.  She has a doll house that she usually pretends with- which she loves.  However, when we travel, the doll house can’t come with us.  I was thinking about this dilemma back during September Sewing Month, and came up with a pretty sweet idea, but I haven’t had time to create it until now.  I give you a quiet book.  But not just any quiet book, because I have a feeling it won’t keep Jayne quiet, but pretty vocal(she has a loud imagination).  Its a house, to go.  Shall we have a tour?

Knock on the front door…

Bake something in the oven- and while you’re at it, can you get me a can of corn out of the cupboard?

 

These chairs are just right!

Time for bed, can you get the light?

 

Oops, we forgot to go potty!  How about a bath while we in here?

Our clothes are stinky! we need to wash them! (Darick has promised me a laundry room exactly like this someday :) Including the pink shag rug)

 

We’ve been cooped up inside for to long- time for a road trip!

 

The back page had a pocket with a zipper for the family to be stored.  (they still need to be sewn, but they’re gonna be great!)

Dangerously Cute

I’m starting to sew recklessly adorable baby clothes.  I can’t help it!  There are some seriously cute fabrics out there, and they are just begging for me to use them.  I just need to use this power I have for good- like when a friend has a baby.  I helped host a baby shower last night and here is a couple things a made for the baby (mom?)

This little dress…. I love pink and brown and pastels as much as the next person, but there is something about this fabric that demanded baby love…

The front…

And the back….

 

I embellished this onsie first, and thought “dang that’s cute!”  Then I made that dress, and the Onsie is now second best… but still adorable .  Man I love to sew!

Knit Skirts

I love baby girls. I love to dress them up, do their hair (the little bit they have), cuddle and love 'em. I love to see those chunky thighs, and cute dimpled knees. With that all in mind I decided to make some cute skirts out of soft knit fabric for the Baby Fair in April. These are just a few... (seriously, I think I'm making about 50!)

The colors available are: Brown, Tan, Hot Pink, Teal, Grey, Purple, and White. I think this might be my favorite project yet! Or maybe its because I've been so wrapped up in boy things, it's refreshing to make things for a baby girl again.

I didn't picture all of the colors together, because the other skirts still need finishing touches, like elastic, flowers or buttons. But they are going to be seriously cute!

Girly Onsies

I know these aren't the best pictures, but I wanted to post these, and I didn't finish them before daylight ended. Here are the girly onsies I came up with. I think my favorite ones are....

1.The hippo

2. The Dino

3. The porcupine

4. The Octopus

5. The Dragonfly

More Baby Fair products

I finished some more pants, and I've made some appliqued onsies to match. Pictures are better than any description I could make, so here you go...
Just Onsies

Pants and Onsies combos

The monster is my favorite

Lots more to come, I still have 7 weeks of crazy kid sewing to do! I've been working on the boy things first, I guess I'm just feeling more creative in the boy department these days, but I promise I have some pretty sweet girl things developing too

Purple Pocket Skirt

Yesterday when I was trying to find a church outfit for Jayne I realized that she has grown a lot this summer. All of her little dresses are too short now! So today I decided to make her a new skirt. I put pockets on it because she LOVES pockets. It is made out of brown corduroy, has a box pleat in front, a waist band (with elastic in just the back) and homemade bias tape around the bottom, and of course purple pockets. After Jayne woke up from her nap, I put it on her to take some pictures, and she didn't want to take it off. I think we're in love, and not just with Jayne. I'm almost OK with Jayne getting bigger.

During Jaynes nap....

I used to nap, but then I discovered how much sewing I can get done while she sleeps. Today I made these.....

One of my friends recently lost her husban,, and they are doing an auction for her... this outfit will be in it, if you wanna bid on it, or any of the cool things up for sale, or donate money to the Allen Family, follow this link.... Allen Benefit.

Here are the other baby items... I really like making stuff for children, it's so fun!