Last Complete.

Today while the little one was napping I was finally able to finish my final quilt top that will be for sale at the bazaar on the 16th.

The days are just ticking away so fast it feels like I am never able to get anything done as fast as I'd like to.

Maybe it's that every Wednesday night I am consumed in American Horror Story.
Ooo, it's soo good and if you don't watch it, I recommend that you start.. NOW.

(I was unable to smooth it out because the ground was wet and I didn't want my quilt top to get muddy!)

I was so excited, I wasn't paying attention and got a boo-boo from the scalding iron. :(

Owie.

Anyways, tomorrow night I will be working my booty off getting all 3 quilts completed. 

I am so excited.

By the way.. 

My little one.. 

Not so into Santa Clause. ;) 

Hahaha.

Not a Lot of Work..

Quite honestly, not a lot of work has been going on around here. I started a new job and have been crazy busy there, and then at night when I get home (Or in the mornings for that matter) all I want to do is hang out with this little girl:

<3 

I have however added the borders to my quilts below and hope to soon bind them. I want to finish this other quilt top first (pictures to come). I don't have much longer before they really need to be done.. like 2 weeks, so it's CRUNCH time. 

I will be getting back into my groove tonight. :D

Two Nights

For some reason I was thinking that making the baby quilts for the bazaar were going to take me a lot longer but I guess being as determined as I am, I got them done within two nights. :)

(The quilt tops are done minus the borders which I need to buy fabric for.) :D

Yay! I especially love the way the boy one turned out.

I still don't know if I am too fond of the girl one.

It's About to Get Busy Around Here..

So today I was finally able to make it out to one of my most favorite places.. Fabric Depot! I so desperately needed to get new fabric for the quilts that I am going to make for the holiday bazaar coming up! 

It was packed.

My little girl was running around (with supervision of course!) and needed a nap.

My Husband was looking around at yarns and gadgets.

I was grabbing all the fabric that I thought was cute before someone else snagged it.

In the end we made out with some great things! And at a steal of a price. 

(These pictures are all going to be horrible quality so apologies in advance, you will get the idea though. ;) )

This will go with an adorably cute owl panel that I got. The fabrics match perfectly and I have a little feeling in my gut that it will be hard to part with this quilt.. so we will set it aside for later.. ;)

These here are not for any quilt in particular they were just cute and I felt like I needed them, so into the stash they go for a later use. Hah.

These are for my little boy quilt that I am going to be making and selling. Although I was a little bummed that I could not find the coordinating stripped with teeth fabric that goes with the dinosaur fabric collection (I am sure someone else probably had it in their cart!) I am still excited about this as I have only really made little girl quilts.. no little boy ones! So this will be a first. ;)

And last but certainly not least, these are the fabrics for the little girl quilt that I will be making and selling. I am really excited about these just because they are so bright and cheerful and cute. My husband told me that I should stop getting such bright fabric and that I should go with more "earth tone" colors.. buuut nah, that isn't what I am drawn to. :D This one is going to be a good one! :D

So, although I would love to work on these tonight, I still need to sort out which pattern I am going to use (I've just been thinking of a million that would be cute and they are all rolling around in my head.. ugh, I should probably draw them out!), My husband and I are going on a much needed date night, so these will have to wait till tomorrow night!

I am so excited to get started though. Only a few weeks to go before the bazaar!

Stay tuned for the final quilts.

On an even more cute note.. my daughter has the TINIEST feet in the world (she till wears a size 2 baby shoe at over a year old!) I finally decided that she needed another pair and these were so cute! Haha, we got them in a 3, so they are a little big, but so stinking cute!

:)

Holiday Bazaar!

So this last weekend I was hanging out with my in-laws and my mother-in-law was telling me about how her work does a holiday bazaar and how she was wondering if my sister in law would like to reserve a table. Instantly we were both excited and jumped on the opportunity! And to my surprise, my husband did too! (He has recently become a knitting addict.)

Anywho, I am so beyond excited that I will have a chance to sell my hand made goods. I am thinking about making a baby girl blanket and a baby boy blanket and putting those up for sale. Also, I am debating on making some hair clips that I've recently fell in love with doing. 

I also got another notice of someone wanting to buy a quilt from me! It will be for her daughter's first birthday. I cannot tell you how excited I am and how honored I am that people actually want to buy my work! :)

I also just wanted to share something cute. My husband made me a hat the other night (no picture yet!) and it turned out great. He started and finished one last night for our daughter and I must say, she looks so stinking cute in it! This morning she found it and put it on all by herself and has just been wearing it all around! :) 

Great job, daddy!

(I also believe he will start selling them in my Etsy shop, once we get it up and running, probably by the end of the week. ;) )

Enjoy!

So Incredibly Proud..

So the other day I was thinking to myself that I would like to step out of my comfort zone for a minute and attempt at making a dress for my little one.

I was so nervous but the idea just wouldn't leave me alone so I acted on it. ;)

I went to JoAnn's and bought a yard of this super cute fabric since it was on sale at a slammin' good price.

 The fabric then sat for a day or two as I pondered and read up on some patterns. I have a great book called Simple Sewing for Baby that I ended up kind of using.

I am a woman who looks and then does. I cannot follow a pattern.

Last night I decided after I put the little one to bed that it was time. I was going to make this dress. I told no one, that way if it turned out a hot mess, I wouldn't be embarrassed. ;)

I cut and sewed.

Cut and sewed.

Seam ripped.

Pressed.

Cut and sewed.

I got horribly lost in the directions and suddenly I just could NOT understand what the heck I was doing. So determined to make SOMETHING cute, I took matters into my own hands and just did what I thought would look and be right.

I could not be more pleased with my first little dress!

Here it is! I love it! 

This morning I could NOT wait for my little one to wake up so I could try it on her!

It fits with room to grow (she's so petite!) and she looked SO mighty cute!

(This is a horrible cell phone picture that does NO justice for the dress. My husband even commented that it was a bad picture because the whole dress isn't visible in the picture. I have a blackberry and it SUCKS and it cannot process as fast as my daughter moves. SO this is what I got. HOWEVER, I did get some AMAZINGLY cute ones of her running around the front yard in the dress and I PROMISE to put them up on the computer as soon as possible!)

Enjoy!

November 1st and Husband's Quilt.

I cannot believe that it is already November 1st. Which means that it is getting seriously close to the end of the year. 

That went by completely too fast.

Anyways, I've been working away when the little one is sleeping and busting out blocks for a quilt that my Husband has been begging me for. He is really excited about finally getting a quilt from me (He doesn't find it fair that our daughter has already been the receiver of 3). He picked out all the fabric that is being used in his quilt, so that will basically ensure that he likes it. 

Here is the progress that I've made. Now this picture doesn't look like a lot of blocks but they are all spread and stacked and believe me.. there is a LOT here:

Ta-da!

Awesome!

Anyways, my little pumpkin was so cute for Halloween. 

She was my little Pebbles Flintstone! 

Hope everyone had a great, safe Halloween!