Quilt Progress

I have been very busy with getting back to school, however, I finally finished all the quilt blocks for this quilt I've been working on. Now it's time to make the quilt top! It's in progress, but here is a sneak peak...

Busy this Weekend!

I have had a very productive weekend! One new t-shirt and two sets of baby blocks are now up on my Etsy Shop.

I also have been working hard on this twin-sized quilt. It's still got a ways to go before I can start assembling the entire quilt, but here's a preview!  

On an exciting note, a friend of mine brought be back this awesome fabric from Qatar! Now to decide what to make with it. Suggestions? 

Sunflower Skirt

I finished my new skirt today and I am totally in love with it! Yes, it's available for sale at my etsy shop! 

I had a lot of fun making these sunflowers, but the best part is the dying process! The results are always such a pleasant surprise! When dying the skirt I use a process called low water immersion dying. The very simplified way to explain it is that it's when you scrunch the fabric into a tight container, pour dye all over it and walk away. When the dye has set, you pull it out and ta-da! Awesome results! 

You can read all about low water immersion dying at Paula Burch's dying page here.

First Sale and Landyard Fun!

I made my first Etsy sale today! I am jumping for joy! I sold one of my onesies, and what's most exciting is that it's not a family member or a friend trying to support me. Someone somewhere liked my stuff. It's reassuring that I can possibly score some extra income though Etsy. 


So, I sat down yesterday and looked at my school lanyard and was annoyed that the plastic part of it didn't stay connected anymore. Who puts a plastic connector on a lanyard anyway?!

So of course, I decided to make my own. I found a lanyard tutorial here. Scrap fabric? Check. Lanyard clips on sale at JoAnn Fabrics? Check. Awesomely cool lanyard for back to school? Win! 

I also have a couple other fun projects in the making at the moment. Pictures to come...

Batiked Baby Counting Book

I have been very busy this past weekend. I kept working on the custom scrap quilt and completed a unique batik project. 


Here is one of the new quilt blocks:

My new batik project was inspired by the counting book that I had made previously. 

Here is the cover. I just wrote it in my own handwriting.

What makes this book extra cool is that all the pictures are dyed into the fabric! (The sun is my favorite page!)

When dying the pages I decided to leave the leaves without veins so I could sew the veins on later. Super cool! 

This project was VERY time consuming, but WOW! The results were totally worth all the work. I know what you're thinking, "That's so cool! I want one for my child/friend's child/niece/nephew, etc." Well guess what!? You're in luck! It is for sale at my Etsy shop! You can find my shop HERE or on the right side of my blog. I'm also totally open to doing custom orders because I had so much fun doing this book. 

I also learned a ton about batiking and painting dye onto the fabric when making this book. Two words: sodium alginate. This is a dye thickener which means the painted dye doesn't run all over your project. The only drawback with using it is that it takes a couple hours for the dye to thicken. So you can't just wake up and say "I'm going to start painting dye right now." Nope. You have to have some patience (which is quite a challenge for me), but thick dye makes your life easy and the results are worth it.

Off to JoAnn Fabrics to buy quilt fabric and various doodads for projects I have running around in my head. 

Fun Things

Saw this today at JoAnn Fabrics. Awesome!!!

Here are a few quilt blocks that I have started for the quilt I'm working on. 

And here's a new onesie!

For the baby mamas!

For all the baby mamas, those who have friends that are baby mamas or soon-to-be mamas, I have some items for you! I now have onesies available on at my etsy shop. Here is a preview...