Miss K's Jammie Quilt

I'll admit, I'm cheap.
I made winter jammies for Miss K and Mr E this past fall. Having just started making clothes, I was shocked at how much fabric was left over after cutting out the patterns. I'm used to quilting where there is not so much waste. I threw all the scraps into a bag and put them in the corner of my sewing room hoping to find something to do with them.
Of course, what was I thinking? - A quilt!
Since most of the pieces where odd shaped, I decided on a crazy quilt. I cut the large pieces into 6 1/2 inch squares and then sewed the rest together in crazy squares.
I alternated the solid squares with the crazy squares. The quilt is 6 squares across and 8 squares down; not a big quilt, but big enough for a little girl to wrap up in while watching TV or have a picnic on in the backyard. It took a bit of time, but it was so satisfying to use up the fabric and throw only a minimal amount away.
I can't get the picture to turn and I really don't have time right now to mess with it. Miss K is playing peek-a-boo with you!
The quilt is not finished yet, but I wanted to get a picture with Miss K before she outgrew her jammies that match the quilt. She is so in love with this quilt. She keeps saying, "mine jammie blankie". I have squares done for Mr E's quilt; I'll post pictures when it is put together.

Happy Brithday

Since our family has two birthdays in February, I tend to go into birthday mode in late January. I've always wanted to do some kind of birthday banner and this is the year it finally got DONE.

I tried to find some gender neutral fabrics since I didn't want to make a boy and a girl one. I think it turned out fun. The kids got a kick out of it.

They really loved the birthday crown. The birthday child gets to sit in the birthday chair, wear the crown and open their presents. Wow! It's their special day. (The crown has Velcro on the back so we can adjust it to many head sizes.)

I made fabric bags a few years ago for Christmas presents and I love, love, love them. Not only does it save money and trees by avoiding wrapping paper, but I can wrap all my Christmas in 30 minutes - yes, 30 minutes. They are wonderful. My kids know to stuff the ribbon to the bottom of the bag so it is there when I wrap next year. It makes it so easy. I also made tags with my kids names on them. I know, a bit over-the-top, but I'm all about doing it well once and then having it easy after that.
Since I was wrapping a large wheelbarrow and a trike this year, I decided to do bags (good grief, how would you wrap a wheelbarrow and trike?) I found solid-colored fabric that matched the banner and the rest was easy. Obviously this is a smaller bag (I made a few different sizes. The wheelbarrow/trike bag was about 4 yards of fabric).


I probably won't do a lot of tutorials because 1. If I can do it, it's easy enough for others to figure out and 2. I'm really good at copying other's brilliance (I'll give credit where it is due).

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