Finally...Contruction Truck Blankets!

So when Nathan was a baby...I wanted to do the "boy" room in construction stuff...esp. since John was working on the temple as it was being built. I found this cute fabric...after looking for a long time and bought everything on the bolt. Then it just sat until last week when I finally got my act together and took them to my Grandma's house.

I have lots of childhood memories about my Grandma sewing, esp. quilts...she has a small business to stitch the quilts to the batting...sorry I don't know what that's called...but she's great at it! She let me pick a pattern...she had a lot to pick from! And turned my fabric into these beautiful quilts for the boys! Nathan was so excited! He had a huge grin and squeal and kept saying "Car, Car, Car" as he pointed to them all. So take a look:

The tops:

Yellow back: Check out the cool design with the thread!

She even bound the quilts for me!

Thanks Grandma!!

Hair Flower

Kari and I found matching dresses for our girls at a yard sale and made matching hair flowers:
We used modge podge, scrapbook paper and the flat marbles to make the center and glued them onto the center of the flowers. We will definitely be making more...so cute!! They are a bit heavy, so we used stronger clips.

Kyla loves it...and wants every dress she has to match a friend's.

More Dipes and Wipes Bags

Dipes and Wipes Bags:

The basic layout:


And two done:

Crinkly Tag Toy

Got this idea here. I used a wrapper from microwave popcorn and sewed it into this:




It makes a great crinkly sound and has the fun little tags to play with, too and it is small to toss in a diaper bag.

Simple Centerpiece

I found this at a yard sale a few weeks ago for 25 cents...

Added 3 roses and some water...Love it!

So I found this basket at a yard sale for 25 cents...I loved that it was blue, but wasn't thrilled about the natural wood look--so....


I spray painted the basket with white paint...now I love it!

My All American Girl

My first attempt at a "Twirl" Skirt:

I read lots of blogs listed here:

then created my skirt combining what I liked from each blog.

My measurements were:
Red fabric: 7 x 30
White fabric: 6 x 44
Blue fabric: 7 x 65

It turned out a little longer than I expected....but on the plus size she should be able to wear this next year, too!

Then of course we had to make a matching headband...then a matching bow.



My headband pattern from this blog (Kyla loves these! I love that they are reversible, so this one has red stars on one side, blue stars in the other):
http://foofanagle.wordpress.com/2007/06/12/best-band-ever/

And this was my first attempt at the flower bow from this blog:
http://www.fiskateers.com/blog/2008/09/18/cool-sewing-tutorial-pinkys-flowers/