St Patricks Day Outfits

A couple weeks ago I posted about a T-Shirt and Dress I made for my grandchildren who live in England, Evie and Canaan to wear for St Patrick's Day.   So excited to post pictures of them  wearing the clothes!  

The T-Shirt and Dress look so great on them.....much better photos than just the clothes themselves in previous posts.  More photos below.......ENJOY!

Canaan is giving his shirt a "thumbs up"

I think they are trying to be taller:)

Thank you Lord, for my grandchildren................

Bath Towel for Nolan

Around the beginning of November, my daughter requested a towel for her son soon to be 1 year old.  He had outgrown the ones she had been using.

Jerry and I went to our local JoAnns Fabric Store and purchased blue terrycloth and Jerry found a really cute print that had a taupe/gray background with cute little footballs on it.  Perfect! since Mary and her husband are great sports fans.

I did some research for patterns for the child towels and used ideas and instructions from these two blogs..Pretty Prudent....Stitched By Crystal

I cut out an "N" to applique on the hood of the towel.
I think I cut a 45" square of the towel fabric.  I honestly cannot remember the exact size of the hood, but I think it was 22" x 15"x15" with the 22" being the bottom of it
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I made the bias binding out of the really cute cotton fabric Jerry found.  See above!

Next cut out the triangle for the hood.  Appliqued the N on it and sewed on the fabric bias binding.

Before sewing the fabric bias binding on the towel, I used a bowl to trace the curve for the edges. (This was a suggestion in one of the tutorials.)

Sewing on the fabric bias binding to edge of towel.  I folded the binding in half, ironed it and put the raw edges against edge of towel.  Sewed all around, then turned the folded edge over to the back of the towel and sewed in the ditch of the first seam made.

Finished hooded towel and washrag.

For Nolan

Big Cloth Blocks

It was Summer of 2014 and Time for a baby shower!..for my daughter Mary. My other daughter Jessica (Crochet Nature)(Crochet Nature Facebook) and I decided to make some big cloth blocks for the baby who was on the way.  We were hosting a baby shower for Mary and wanted to use decorations that she could then use for the baby.  The blocks were some of the decorations.

We used pattern from Smile and Wave Tutorial , and were able to use fabric we had on hand.  We put added noisy items in the center of the filling: jingle bells in one, cellophane in another, and marbles secured in easter eggs in the third. .  We appliqued A, B, C and X, Y, Z in upper and lower case on the squares that make up each block, and sewed the 6 squares together to make each block.

You can see how cute they look surrounding Nolan in his crib.   Now that he is older, we can play catch with them:)

He is so adorable

Remade Pants and Train T Shirt

This coming Thursday we are going to visit our daughter's family in England...I have mentioned that sunnystitching is one of my two daughters.  I had made the Crochet Flower Hat and Butterfly Dress to take to granddaughter Evie so wanted to make an outfit for her little brother Canaan.

Some paint stained a pair of Jerry's pants so I made a pair of cargo pants from them for Canaan using Simplicity Pattern 3856 as shown below.

Then, purchased a $3 t-shirt from our local T Shirt Factory store, and on Saturday appliqued a train on it.  I was able to draw the train using a pictures the fabric shown below and  Jerry drew the smoke clouds for me.

This was my first time using felt for the applique and then embroidering to secure the applique instead of using satin stitch on sewing machine.   I used a really good how to applique on this tutorial. 

 It took me several hours to get the embroidery done!...but enjoyed doing it while catching up on a tv series Once Upon A Time.

Choo Choo...Here Comes the Train.....