Butterfly Baby

Don't ever throw your scraps away! Recognize this fabric? I didn't think I had enough left over to do anything with...



Love love love the little butterfly wings! Perfect for Spring.



I used a pattern for the butterfly wings that I got out of this adorable book...



This project sure taught me a lesson about hanging on to all my scraps of fabric.

Daydream Dress

Strictly for the fun of it, with no wild dreams about actually winning, I entered a fun contest over at Riley Blake Designs called Cruising With Riley Blake. The idea is to enter a clothing item made from Riley Blake fabric. I had my eye on this fabric, called Daydream Cottons, and the pattern was just in my stash. It actually came together very quickly on a Saturday night and I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out.



The back is what sold me on the pattern (which is called Macy Giggles Sundress by Izzy and Ivy) I used a couple Riley Blake flower buttons as well, just to rub it in a little how much I love their products ;)



Sorry, no smiles from little P today...

The first place prize is a very cool beach cruiser bicycle that I would very much love to call my own. Second and third place will recieve Riley Blake fabric bundles (also very cool!)



You can click HERE to check out my dress in further detail.



Let me know if any of you have your own entries as well, I'd love to see them!!!

My New Couch

I was so excited when I saw this super cool pillow on Cluck Cluck Sew last week! She calls it a sprocket pillow. I've been looking for just the right pillows to go on our new couches. I didn't like anything I saw in the stores and I didn't want them to clash with all the quilts I have hanging in our home. But these pillows look perfect, because they already look so much like a quilt!



Check out her tutorial for how to make this fun and surprisingly easy pillow!

And I thought in case you were wondering about my other, slightly less cool, but fairly cute pillow, I'd show you how I made that one as well...

I used some scraps I had left over from a quilt I made awhile back, but a charm pack would be perfect (love those charm packs!) Sew a collection of 5" squares together...


Create a little template that looks something like this...



Use your template to cut a bunch of pieces out of white (or in my case Kona Snow) fabric. Enough to have a piece on each seam...



Using a 1/4 inch seam top stitch those down, leaving your edges raw...



Add cute buttons to the corners where they meet. Cut out a back to your pillow, stitch all the way around, leaving a whole to turn, and then WASH your finished pillow cover. Your edges will fray and look super soft and cute. After you washed and dried, then stuff and sew up your hole.



Thank you Cluck Cluck Sew for my adorable new pillow, it was just what I was looking for! She mentioned you wouldn't be able to sew just one, and she's right! I've started making a couple for my girls. They reminded them of Little Miss Muffet's Tuffet!