his teacher's quilt

His teacher had a sweet baby girl and he wanted to make a quilt for her. He picked out all of the fabrics. SO stinkin' cute.

He was so proud of the quilt and I was so proud of him. I didn't have a full piece of fabric for the backing so I made a strip style backing. 

I quilted in diagonals across the squares to give it a comfy feel.

I added a simple green binding to help balance out the busyness.

classic Kate dress

I made this dress for Kate because all of the dresses that I could find at the store in her size just seemed too short. I wanted to make a dress that was longer, classic, and beautiful. I found the embroidered linen on sale and it was the perfect amount. I added some crochet lace and eyelet lace along the bottom hem and then lined the dress. 

I added little loops out of ribbon on the side so that I can add any ribbon or trim to tie on the dress and switch it out any time I want. 

I really love the sweet innocence of this dress. 

Lexi's quilt

I gave this quilt to my friend a few weeks ago. I enjoyed making this scrap quilt. I have so many scraps that I needed to dig into. 

I used the remnants of some of my favorite fabrics. I'm glad that they were going to a sweet little babe to be snuggled with.

I quilted it using my walking foot and quilted each one individually. I really like the look it gave the quilt.

After it was quilted I flipped it over and saw that it looked like a quilted tetris. Awesome-ness!

I just can't get over the comfy snuggly look of a quilted quilt. It makes me happy to think of lots of sweet little babies snuggled in quilts made by me.:)

sew on a button

Over Spring Break I taught Todd and Kate how to sew a button. It went pretty well, I thought. Kate at least knows the basics but Todd caught on pretty well. I was quite impressed with how well he caught on. 

This is the button I was sewing on for them to see as an example. 

He is such a cutie. And even more so when he is so proud of the button he sewed on.

This beautiful girl tried so hard but it would have been easier for her if I hadn't given her such a thick fabric. It was pretty hard to her to push her needle through the fabric and that frustration made learning how to sew on a button more difficult than it needed to be. Whoops. Poor girl, but now I know for next time. I'm just so proud of her for trying so hard. 

booster seat~ before & after

Todd's seat has been driving me crazy. I know he only has 6 months left in it, but I decided that for those last 6 months it should look alot better than it previously did.

Here is the before:

It's not in too bad shape but is well worn. But I decided that I wanted his cover to look like the cute ones I've seen for sale. 

Here's the after:

I just hand appliqued the fabric right onto the seat cover. I just laid the fabric onto the seat and curled the edges under and invisible stitched the edges. Thats it. 

And I'm loving how it turned out. 

finishing up the tablecloth

remember this beautiful tablecloth for the young women in our church:

I just put my name on it, so that if they ever decide to get rid of it, then I have a chance of getting it back. That makes me happy!

I used the back stitch for this project. I am really happy with how it turned out! Yay!

And these sweet girls were keeping my company while I stitched it up. Alice even worked on her embroidery, too, which is her putting her large needle in and out of her fabric and repeat. I couldn't get any luckier. :)

Spring is here!

Just this past week all of the trees grew their new spring leaves. I'm loving all the color and life after the stark trees of the winter.

With the rising temps outside I just want to garden and work in the yard. Now, don't get me wrong, I don't really know what I'm doing. But I'm still going for it. Pretty much, I'm playing house... in the garden, and loving it.

After the weather warmed up and the last frost passed I couldn't wait to get outside and start gardening. I bought the two herbs that didn't survive our North Carolina winter, basil and cilantro. 

Our chives, two different kinds of thyme, rosemary, parsley, and oregano all did well this winter season. It is so nice to that rosemary bush now, so much bigger than when I bought the tiny rosemary plant from our local nursery.

The blueberries are already blooming and so happy. When I bought them last year, they were already producing, so I'm really hoping for a good blueberry season. 

And, ever present in our yard is the heart with our initials carved in it that Josh did for me this past year. 

Love.

p.s. All of the pics were taken with my new Canon on manual. I'm enjoying playing with my camera on manual and manual focus.