December 2009 projects

Christmas Tradition is new pajamas. Knut's were worn for their Polar Express party at school.


Cyrus and mommy got matching pajamas for coming home in.


Nevan got a new pair of overall's for his birthday day.

I bought this fabric last year after Christmas and finally got to make the apron for the holidays, it's called "Nordic Snowmen". But Nevan thinks it's better for hide-n-go-seek.

November 2009 Projects

For our Christmas Cards this year, I made vests and a dress for Keileigh out of some great silk. the vests got snowflakes embroidered in the front and Keileigh's dress got a seperate tie, so we could swap out the tie later it we wanted.








This is one of Keileigh's nightgowns that I was supposed to have one to match, but I didn't finish it before we moved last year and it's still waiting to be finished.

October 2009 projects

Go here to see most of the previous summer's projects:

http://alittleinsanity.blogspot.com/2009/10/sewing-projects_29.html


I did make Keieligh's jacket to match the boys, but I can't find any pictures, so I guess I better take some pictures of that too.

For Halloween, Keileigh got a new tutu for a fairy costume because the fairies didn't come to turn her blue dress pink. (Ok, why are all the disney princesses dressed in pink? don't they like any other colors?) This is the only picture I have of it, but we also at that time took a ton of pictures to create our own ABC book.

Craft Stuff

I'm trying to post all of my projects on here, that way at least I have motivation to take pictures before giving them away and maybe also give some ideas on projects for other people. Don't worry, for those of you that asked how I made Keileigh's dresses last year, I was waiting until this summer to put together some pictures of how to do it since they are more of a summer play dress. I am almost always in the middle of something crafty, sewing, quilting, or crocheting, as I have found that usually it helps me to relax to work with something that almost always does what I say to do the first time and can't talk back to me.

Keileigh's Tea Time Quilt

Keileigh picked these fabrics a while ago and this design set came out just recently from one of my favorite digitizers, Cindy of Julia's Needle Designs. I used the fat quarters cut into fourths for the front and then cut up two pairs of old work pants that had been given to Nolan, but that didn't fit him. I started the quilt on a Wednesday and then finished it on Friday night, would have been done sooner, but I was having major thread issues with it breaking and then running out of that particular color or even running out of white thread completely at one point in time.