Baby Shower Gifts

I have attended a few baby shower's recently and I love doing homemade gifts... The last one I went to I was able to make burp cloths, a tie and a bow tie.  I have posted about of these before expect for the bow tie.  I LOVE the way they all turned out.  The only thing I would have done differently is to to make the bow tie smaller.  But this was the first one I had done, so I just followed the tutorial.  It is great, but its for a little older kids.  I think I would make it smaller so it could fit a baby.  Either way, I think they all turned out great, and then I paired them with some AWESOME infant clothing deals I scored at Target (I LOVE their clearance section).

Reversible Car Seat Canopy

A friend of mine is learning how to sew and wanted to make a car seat canopy.  They look relatively easy, and you can find lots of tutorials online.  I found a few different ones that I liked and were fairly similar- but in the end, I ended up combining two of them.  However, I could not find one that I liked on how to do the straps.  The ones that were reversible just had you put straps on both sides of the fabric, which is what I had my friend do, and I was going to do the same.  But after talking with my mom about it, I decided that I wanted to go ahead and try and do button holes so that you could use the same strap on both sides.  So I sewed the straps down on one side of the fabric and then you can put the straps through the button holes so they are reversed on the other side of the fabric.  I do like how it turned out, however, I am not great at doing button holes (these were my first ones).  So my holes are a little bigger than I would like, but I figure its not that big of a deal.  This is the link to the main one I followed, and this is the link to the other one... which I just used her idea of sewing 2 vertical lines up the canopy to hold it together.   I love the way mine turned out and I love that it can be used for a little boy or girl... especially since we aren't expecting another little one yet.

The Boy Side

This is the side that I just slide the straps through the button holes and attached them.

The Girl side 

 This is the side sewn to the fabric and you can see the holes from the button holes... a little bigger than I would like- but oh well.

** Next step is to re-do the car seat cover its self... I hate the navy blue (but hey, someone gave it to us for free... so I can't complain.)

Halloween Wreaths

Spending time in Houston with my family= lots of crafts!  Here is another one that I have finished while here.  My mom found this cute tutorial here for halloween rag wreaths.  So we decided to make some.  We did change them up just a little bit, but I love the way they both turned out!  

Mine

My Mom's

Turkeys

Last night for craft night, at my mom's house, we made these cute little turkeys!  We did it a little different than the instructions,  and I loved the way they turned out.  We broke all of the Popsicle sticks in half and then just made it so our feathers stuck out further.

Mine

 

My Mom's

 You can find a tutorial on how to make these here!

Fabric Covered Burp Cloths

A few weeks ago a friend of mine told me she wanted to make some of those fabric covered burp cloths, but would love to have them embroidered with her last name.  Well, I was headed home for the weekend, and my mom has an embroidery machine, so I had her collect her fabric and give it to me before I left, and I had my mom embroider them for her  And while she was embroidering those, I decided to make some for a friend who is due with a baby girl in October, and had my mom embroider those for me too.  They turned out great!  There are a lot of different tutorials out there for these, but the one I used (and liked the best after checking out a few different ones) is this one.  I LOVE how these turned out and can't wait til I have another one of my own to make some for myself :)

*Also when making these I tried to keep there fairly gender neutral since this is her first kid, that way they can be used if she ever has a little boy.


**When buying the fabric diapers to use, I couldn't find the Gerber ones pictured in the tutorial.  All of the Gerber ones I found were either really thin or really thick,  so we ended up using the Carter brand ones you can buy at Wal-mart.

Spin Around Dress

I saw THIS dress tutorial, and just knew I had to make it for my little girl!  I finally got around to sewing it, after cutting it out months ago!  I changed it up a little bit, I added a hem on the bottom that matches the sash and I cut it down by about 5 inches.  It says the pattern is a 2T, but it ended up being WAY too long for my little girl... who is 2 and usually wears a 2-3T.  Anyways, I LOVE the way it turned out and she loves to spin in it!  Oh and what is a cute dress with out a matching bow?  So I added a little bow to the sash and made a matching one for the hair.  I love it and the little girl!

Before I added the bow to the sash.

After I added the bow to the sash

Latest Projects

I have a few different projects I have finished lately.  First I made a tie for a little boy, this is for our church craft night, along with a little girls hair bow.  I am not in charge of our church craft night an that makes me so excited!  We have lots of little kids in our ward, so I thought this would be an awesome project.  When trying to decide which style of hair bow to make I knew I wanted it to be fabric so that people with both little boys and girls could make matching ones.  So I came across this tutorial and thought it would be perfect!  I love the way both the tie and the bow turned out.  It makes me want a little boy so I can have them wear matching tie/bows!  Also here is the tutorial for the little boys tie.

 

** I recently made some more baby ties for a baby shower for my SIL's friend.  Here is a picture of them... however, I'm not sure if the picture is just funny or if she untied them and then tried to retie them, but the two green ones look a little funny...