Oh the Cuteness!

Hooray it's How-Tuesday! I have some great stuff this week: a sweet headband, steak-au-poivre, and an adorable loft bed! This cute little rosette headband is made from recycled t-shirt material. See how to make it here . Steak-au-poivre. 'Nuff said. See the step-by-step here . This entire website is totally amazing with pdf and online plans for tons of awesome carpentry projects. This one is a child's loft bed with a playhouse base. Amazing! Check the site out here .

There's a new baby quilt in the works in my studio! This will be the first hand-pieced quilt I've completely finished. My other "first" quilt top, seen here , was supposed to be a twin-size throw with a double layer of batting and I'm not sure my machine is big enough to quilt it, so I'm doing this one first. The photo above is the back - a glorious vintage cotton print (which I also used to make some loop scarves from for my shop ) with a little pieced row of scraps from the front. I pieced it together ages ago in a bricklayer pattern and was afraid to start quilting it without a walking foot, but my new machine has one so I spent the day with a good friend teaching her to quilt and simultaneously working on it! The front fabrics are all shirting weight cotton voile, i.e. incredibly soft, and 100% recycled to boot! My dear friend Ivy, who I've mentioned before, is a fabric sales rep and gives me lots of old samples which I love using for quilts...