Oh the Cuteness!

This quilt is a very special one to me, it's the one that I am tucking away into the hope chest for the hypothetical someday baby. I think my maternal clock must have started ticking in the past year or so because I seem to be making and squirreling away quite a lot of goodies that I normally would have sold on Etsy. Johnny and I have a thing for moons, and when we found Lizzy House's Moon Phase Polkadot fabric  I knew I had to make a quilt. I had some other vaguely-moon-invoking prints in my stash and they looked lovely together! Here is the simple tutorial for this quilt's design, any novice quilter could whip this one up in a weekend or so without too much fuss. How to Make a Moon Phase Quilt: Finished dimensions, about 42x45 inches. You'll need 1/4 yards of 4 different coordinating materials, and 1/2 a yard of a 5th material 1 yard of cotton needle punch weight batting 1.5 yards of a backing fabric if you plan on making your own bias tape -or- ...

I've recently become friends with a lovely lady who works at my chiropractor's office and she requested that I sew a cute little dress for her 18 month old girl. It's been a long time since I've sewn a piece of clothing from a pattern (I usually just wing it like when I did Me-Made-May a few years ago ), so I was delighted to do this because it worked as a great refresher for me. And with my new sewing machine it was so much easier than I thought it would be. We went through free patterns online and found the absolute cutest ones I've ever seen, then we decided on the above fabrics from my stash. So playful in pattern but very sophisticated in color, which I think makes it even more fun. And here's the finished product: I am soooo in love with this dress! The pattern I used was from Handmade Charlotte, and you can download the PDF for free here.  It's called the Merrymaker dress and it's very well written. Her original version has patte...