Scrap Bib ...

Went into a (small) box of scrap fabrics and found just enough of this flag pattern left from a shirt I made my son, to make a bib.  I used a terry washcloth for the back.

 

 

The washcloth wasn't quite long enough (barely wide enough), so I pieced the neck with a little of the flag fabric. 

 

 

He Sews So Good!

 

First project with the Other Brother. 

 

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Bags And Stuff ...

Or maybe I should call it "stuffed bags".  

Finished my project for Sadie's shower.  Of course there will be many (many) more projects for Sadie (and Gabbie) but this will be the Shower Ensemble.  

Sadie's bag and all the goodies .... changing pad, burp cloths, and boots. 

(Pardon the crazy background for the pics, an old sheet on a dirty picnic table)

They've been blessed to have most of their needs met by a friend who has passed along car seat, bouncy seat, bathtub, swing, and oodles and oodles of little girl clothes ... 

but of course she need her very own special Grandma shirt!

And her very first Nashville shirt!

Though merely a cousin (once or twice removed, whatever that means), Gabbie will be playing the part of big sister, and she will need a few things at the shower as well. 

Bag, burp cloth and her very own purple boots (even though they look kinda black in this picture, they are bright purple). 

As DIL said last week ... we don't want Sadie to come early, but we sure do want July 20 to get here FAST!!

 

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My Other Brother

This arrived 45 years ago.

This is my original brother.

He still shows his butt now and again.  ;-)

This arrived today.

This is my new brother.

I haven't completely unpacked it yet (in fact I haven't unpacked it at all - just opened the box and peeked in).  I will have the Gabster most of this weekend so unpacking and using it will not happen til at least late Sunday - more likely Monday.

I did however unpack this.

I can read it while Gabbie is watching Dora.

I will not however be needing this!!



More pictures when I get to explore further!

All In A Day's Work ...

Though it did take most of the day, including an unreasonably long time on re-making the handle more than once.

Miss Sadie will be having shower in four weeks and I'm going to make her a bag and some burp cloths, so I made Gabbie a bag as well.  I'm basically treating Gabbie like the 'big sister' and including her in everything.  After all, she has been everybody's only baby for 4 1/2 years!!

This is her bag - and of course a burp cloth for her baby dolls.

Since she is all about shoes, I thought she would really like this fabric. 

 

I'm still working on Sadie's bag.  It's a bit bigger and is taking longer because I am doing a little more quilting on it. And I'm still deciding on how to do the handles.  I now have a phobia about handles. 

 

 

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Coincidence? Or Grandma's Intuition?

Right about the time BoyChild and DIL announced that they were expecting, I saw a quilt pattern I wanted to try. 

 

It's been LONG time since I quilted (and even then only one small quilt and a couple of tote bags).

 

But I saw a blog about a bubble quilt and thought I'd give it a whirl.  I looked up a couple quick tutorials on YouTube and headed out to WalMart for supplies. 

 

I wanted cute/pretty, but I also wanted cheap.  This fabric fit the bill pretty well. 

 

And wouldn't you know it, just this week we found out it's going to be a girl!

 

I still have a couple more rows to go, then I have to figure out what I want to use for a backing.  I'm thinking a very (very) lightweight felt if I can find a complementary color. 

 

I may have to pick up a new sewing machine soon too.  My thirty-some-odd year old Kenmore has about had it. 

 

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