Warning!!!

I've been on a creative binge this last month. Here's what happened:

Birthday Outfit

Teah turned 6! I made her this little skirt, headband, shirt thing. The white shirt is store bought, but to make it more a part of the outfit I traced a butterfly from the skirt and stitched it on the shirt. And the number 6. I like how it turned out, but I want to play around with this whole stitching thing a little more. There's some potential there!

Bracelet

I made two of these and gave the cuter one away as a birthday gift. So here's the less cute one, but you get the idea. Pretty simple- layer a couple circles of different fabrics together and sew to a strip of fabric. I put a pearl bead in the center, but a button would look cute, too. Then make a button hole and attach a button. The cuter one had a two smaller flowers, this one is a little too big, in my opinion.

Crayon roll

April hits us with a string of birthdays, so these little beauties, along with a pad of paper, made great gifts. I don't know what I have against following patterns, but I just winged it. Either way here's a tutorial for something similar.

Play dress

I had that pink/white striped tank that was stretched out (I wore it when pregnant), and Teah had that blue tank that had a bleach spot on the bottom. So I cut them both in the middle and sewed them together to make this cute little play dress. I left the edge showing on the pink striped. It fits both Teah and Havi.

Eden's Dress

Here's Eden't denim dress. I love how it turned out. I put pictures of Teah and Havi's dresses on my blog earlier, it just took me a little longer to Eden's done. Worth the wait, though. On all the dresses, I found a dress they already had in a cute, simple style. I traced out the pieces on a scrap piece of fabric (I have cheap white Ikea sheets that I use), then pin it together to see if it works. When tweaking is done, I use those as a pattern and pin it to my denim and make the real thing. I'm either too cheap or too impatient, but when the urge hits to make something, I don't want to go to the store to buy a pattern! It's been hit or miss, but I'm definitely learning.