The Crocheted Bookmark

Easy Empire Waist Top Baby Dress & Robot Quilt Block

2011-07-06T06:20:00.009-10:00

The most inconsistent poster is back and graduated so I’ve been sewing up a storm. All the things I had on my list to do for 2 years or more.

Here is a little baby dress “Easy Empire Waist Top” I made for a friend a while back for her new baby. I got the pattern from Amy Butler’s Little Stitches for Little Ones. OK I like the book but there are a number of errors and missing diagrams which make the book hard to use. In general this was a frustrating little dress to make as it was my first baby outfit I made. If I was to make this dress again I would not make the sleeves the way the pattern calls for but instead make simple sleeves.

A close up of the little bow in front.

The baby bloomers were the easy thing to make.

The book did not have a view of the back of the dress this was frustrating for me. I decided not to simply sew the elastic inside the dress without a covering over the elastic. Why because the elastic might rub the tender baby skin and cause irritation. I created a tube of fabric that I put the elastic in the sewed the tube to the inside of the baby dress.

A nice coordinated button is always important.

Here is a Robot block I made after seeing this robot quilt. I was pleased with my version but it is still sitting around as you see it below.

Here is a better view of it.

A Helpful List & Catch up post

2010-12-14T17:03:00.012-10:00

To help organize my Christmas check list for all the people I am getting gifts for I found the print out at Atypical Type A’s site helpful.

The rest of this post is a catch up post on some of the things I was making earlier this year. Earlier this summer when I was still learning exactly how to paper piece hexagons I made a bunch of yellow hexagon flowers with yellow fabric seen below. This is before I made my paper pieced hexagon wall hanging. I described there a little more information on where I learned how to paper piece.

I fell in love with this cute little owl fabric but I needed to make sure the owls looked right before I cut the fabric. To do this I followed the instructions on how to fussy cut the fabric. I made some of my own templates with the plastic sheets below.

Nothing special but they helped greatly.

Because my family all lives in Arizona and I in Georgia I have been flying frequently and needed a larger purse to transport my laptop. I came across pictures of Amy Butler’s Birdie Sling and bought the pattern.

I used fusible fleece instead of the interfacing described in the pattern this made a more cushy shoulder strap and a sturdier bag in general.

Here is an inside view of one side.

And here is the other sided inside the bag. These pockets are slightly larger. It took about a day and an evening to make the bag if I remember correctly.

An Amaryllis Flower & a Fried Brain

2010-12-11T13:31:00.007-10:00

Because I’m a visual person and don’t have lots of pictures of crafts to show I am going to show you shots of my Amaryllis bulb “Emerald” as the flower scape grows.

The scape is barely out of the bulb.

Here the flower part of the scape is completely out. This is shot a few days later than the first picture.

At the end of a long day here is a shot I captured.

Amost almost…

The flowers are almost ready to open.

Here she is Emerald in her full beauty.

OK this shot is the only good picture I got when I took a 2 ½ hour drive to Charleston, South Carolina. I took this trip only to take a 2 hour “Speech and Language Pathology Praxis test”. After I took the test I promptly had a meltdown sure I had not passed the exam.

The good news is that after waiting nearly a month for the results I found out that I passed the exam.

Now that my brain is completely fried from school and Christmas is coming I am trying to scrape up the dregs of my creativity to produce new cute and totally amazing presents. HELP PLEASE I am open to any great Ideas for gifts. I’ll even go for a creativity inspiring picture. If it looks amazing, I will try to figure out how to make it I just need to find the fantastic picture.

I did find one creativity inspiring picture so far.

I need many more to go…