little apple apron

February 18, 2016April 19, 20167 Comments

this little guy turned TWO last week! i would say “already,” but his unpredictable sleep habits were a major contributor to the fact that i blog a lot less than i used to, so part of me feels like i’ve been waiting him out, knowing eventually he’d learn that waking up crying right as mom and dad drift off to sleep is NOT COOL. anyway, he’s two now! he’s putting extremely adorable sentences together, he sings along to songs with the big kids, and he loves to pretend cook, especially soup!

for his birthday, i wanted to make him a fat quarter apron, which i’ve made for both big kids (never blogged). they’ve been hanging in his play kitchen area and he has been putting them on lately, so it was time. Continue reading →

rainbow lulu dress

January 25, 2016January 24, 201621 Comments

this is E’s “back to school” dress and i took these pictures last fall. i feel like i need to give you that disclaimer lest you think we’re all tan and wearing flip flops around here in january. no. the photos are seasonally out of date, but since this is E’s favorite dress of the moment, i couldn’t skip blogging it!

JoAnn Fabric has really upped their apparel fabric game lately. i’ve been finding a lot of great knits, in particular, and we all know how hard good knits are to come by. Continue reading →

jane hat

January 11, 2016January 10, 201611 Comments

i’m not sure why i thought i wasn’t a “hat person.” i just don’t wear them very often, and hadn’t even considered knitting myself a hat until last year. i met up with Kelly and saw her amaaaazing hat, and bought yarn to make my own that same day (with her encouragement!).

i actually knitted this hat last winter, but after i’d sewn the brim under and tried it on, it was WAY too small! i had also made a pretty big mistake right by the brim that i didn’t notice until i unsewed the brim to see if that’d help it fit. Continue reading →

mini kitty briar + virginia leggings

November 24, 2015November 23, 201511 Comments

there’s a new player in the kid clothes pattern game, and i’m very excited that she asked me to help get the word out! it’s Megan Nielsen – a previously adult-ladies-only designer who is known for her darling ranges dress, her briar tee, and her fantastic maternity patterns. but this week, she released three patterns for children, and i get to show you my take on two of them today!

or rather, my little rock star does…

this is E at her coolest. she just can’t help it when she puts this outfit on, she immediately grabs a mic and starts singing/posing. she and O even have a band name – “The Rockin’ Beatles” – and they’ve composed some original tunes. 🙂 Continue reading →

handmade halloween 2015: vampire bat

November 16, 2015November 15, 20154 Comments

back with O’s Halloween costume! for a long time he had told me he wanted to be a vampire this year, which i was pretty excited about. thought it’d be fun to have a classic Dracula little guy. but the week before halloween, AFTER i had already bought fabric for a cape and black trousers, he said no, he actually wanted to be a vampire BAT. like the animal. so i sort of went with a hybrid.

i started with his cape/wings, which i insisted on lining with the red nylon i had gotten at Mill End to look more “vampire” like. i drew the pattern out on a big sheet of easel paper, making the wingspan match his armspan and sort of echoing the style of last year’s Toothless costume. then i cut it out of some microsuede type fabric my mom had given me plus the red, sewed right sides together then turned, and quilted the lines in from the neck to each point of the wings. Continue reading →