Delilah's Matching Dresses

Happy to blog today about some recent sewing projects!

But first....Where oh where have I been?

Ah, just getting to the end of pregnancy and have had lots on my plate. So blogging has not been a priority. I'm not apologizing for not blogging - I think my priorities are in order. But I do miss interacting with the online world quite a bit.

Here's who I have been interacting with. This little girl, who just turned 3. Poor dear woke up sick on her birthday but still agreed to wear a little 3 shirt I appliqued for her and was a sweet and cuddly little one all day. She is the cutest most amazing kid ever. Just sayin'.

I wish I had her hair!

Happily, she was not sick for her birthday party. I made her a cake with princesses on it and we enjoyed ourselves.

I have gotten some sewing done lately! I'm so very happy to show you this Popover Dress for Delilah for next Spring/Summer AND a matching dress for her to put on a doll. I have a prettier doll in mind, but this one was the closest available when I was ready to take a picture.

The fabric is Willow Grove by Alexander Henry and I just LOVE it! (Patterns are available for FREE download from the Oliver & S website)

I alspo recently made Delilah's Halloween costume. I'll try to post pictures after she wears it, in the meantime, here's a clue about what she wants to be...

Oh, the cute! I know that no one finds kids as charming as their parents. These days I am feeling especially in love with my daughter and just can't help expressing it.

I'll be back with more projects. Including a tutorial for some tab top curtains I made.

Take care all,

Janimal

TeddyBear Party - Your Feedback Please?

What was originally supposed to be a small gathering of neighborhood kids for cake and pizza has gone off the rails for Delilah's birthday party.

It's now a teddybear themed party. Complete with teddybear themed favors featuring each guest's initial embroidered on their own little bear.




I wish I could say this was all of them. I am going bear crazy!! (Teddy bear embroidery design is from http://www.moosebstitchin.net/ - I left out the wire to make them posable.)

An invitation to one family, meant we had to invite another family, which meant we had to invite another family, and so on, and so forth, etc. etc. to avoid anyone having hurt feelings at the lack of an invitation. The list got MUCH longer, fast.

Now, I like all the people on the list. I just hadn't intended for the party to be very big. And have some guilt now over the folks NOT invited - just because they weren't associated with the people on the growing list. But then the party would be HUGE!

Does that make any sense?!?


Anyway, I will get over that and would like some feedback please. These bears are to given away with a little bag of Teddy Grahams. I tied a bag to a bear with a ribbon. Like so:





And it looks to me like the teddy is wearing the bag like a cape? Hubby says this is fine as is, but I wonder if there is a better way. Any suggestions for putting these bears and little bags together? Maybe a little cellophane bag if I can find them?


Thanks for stopping by,


Janimal