Baby Shower-Tutu's and Tiaras

As promised below you will see some pictures of my

 Daughter-in-laws baby shower!  These pictures are some of the things I made.  I didn't get a picture of the watermelon

 and pasta salad I made, but course I had some 

help from her Mom who bought some meatballs, the drinks 

and Oreo dipped cookies. A friend made 

some cookies and organized the games.  We had 

her Aunt make Alexis' favorite sherbet ice cream 

punch and her cousin made the banner and 

some of the hanging decorations 

(she wasn't able to make the shower because she was picking up her new adopted daughter in Uganda). It turned 

out so cute and was fun too!

Some of the pictures didn't turn out, I need to

collect them from others that  took pictures!!!

Here's Alexis, due in December.  It's a girl!!

The banner!

Pink popcorn

Fondant cake!

The favors!!

Chocolate and white cupcakes!

Thanks for stopping by!

                                                                      

Ecclesiastes 3:11  

He Has Made Everything Beautiful In Its Time. 

Halloween Fabric- What to Make???

I've been working on my daughter in laws' baby shower!  So exciting because it's in two more weeks!  Once the shower is over I can post pictures, but not until.   

I just couldn't stay away from fabric.  I'm getting the itch to quilt. I thought I'd share some of my Halloween Fabric.  I'd really like to make a Mini #Halloween #Quilt or runner for my kitchen counter, but can't seem to decide on a pattern.  

Calling out for any suggestions.

Possible choices are:

(All images were found on the site below)

 Halloween images/google

I guess you'll all have to wait to see what pattern I decide on!!!

Which one would you choose??

                                                   He Has Made Everything Beautiful In Its Time.  

Ecclesiastes 3:11  

   

Repair To Restore A Vintage Quilt

I was given this #vintage #Sue Bonnet quilt from either 

the 1930's to 1940's to make some repairs

 to this old damaged quilt.

I thought I took a picture of the damaged quilt but 

my files showed none.  (This blog was posted and

some how deleted.  I am rewriting and reposting.)

It's hard to tell but, a few of the dresses 

on the Sue Bonnet quilt needed to be 

replaced.  Here's one damaged dress.  

Before I attempted to work on this quilt I had 

to find some matching fabric that would go 

with the original pieces.  I did find the bright 

yellow one you see on the right.  It actually was

 a reproduction fabric from the 1940. 

 It was way to bright to use on the quilt so I 

bleached the fabric.  I would have liked the 

fabric to remain yellow but the end result was great.

after                                                                    before

After preparing the fabric

I carefully removed the embroidery floss from 

the dresses, the sleeves and on part of the bonnet

 in order to replace it and create a new pattern.  

The rest of the embroidery floss was 

removed from the bonnet once I started sewing.

I traced the dress onto the fabric I 

prepared.  The original fabric had the seam 

allowance folded under so I just added

 1/4" seam allowance to each dress.

I had to reverse one of the pattern 

pieces because Sue was facing the other way.

Here you see the dress pinned in place with 

the seam allowance turned under 1/4".

I also pinned the sleeve in place. 

I matched the color of the original embroidery floss used 

and began to sew.  In order to make it look right I did 

remove the rest of the embroidery floss from the bonnet.

  

When it came to repairing the larger holes on this vintage quilt I simply took some cotton thread and stitched around the hole to prevent the hole from getting larger.  The smaller holes were mended by hand with the same cotton thread to match the fabric.

Here's the end result and the quilt has been restored.  Can you tell which ones were redone?

He Has Made Everything Beautiful In Its Time.  
Ecclesiastes 3:11 

DIY-Painted Family Tree

For sometime now I've been wanting to paint a tree in the hall way of my house.  I finally got the nerve to do it.  

I simply used acrylic paints, and it actually turned out really nice.  The pictures you see in the photos are a few of the  ones  I had hanging before the tree.   

                       




If you want to paint a tree, have no fear!  It's only paint and you can paint over it!

First, look on line to get a feel of what type of tree you want.

Second, decide where you want to paint your tree.  Do you want to paint the tree in the center of the wall, to the right, or to the left; how big, or small, etc. Also, what room of the house you want the tree in.  I have a girlfriend who wants to paint one in her daughter's room.

Then pencil an outline of your tree onto the wall.  I drew my tree on the left side of the wall.  I used a ruler to draw the  trunk of the tree just to make sure it was straight.

Third,  paint  the tree with two different colors of brown paint.  It didn't take much paint which I was really surprised.  I found I had to dip the tip of my brush with some water to smooth it out on the wall.  My tree is very simply.  It dried fairly quick. 

                            


                                         




 Paint your leaves and hang your pictures!!
                 


I'm in love with my wall.  Who knows I just might paint a few more leaves and branches on the right side of the same wall.  

Hope you will give this idea a try and if you do, please post your pictures of your wall!  I would love to see them.  Because I really do love trees.

He Has Made Everything Beautiful In Its Time.  
Ecclesiastes 3:11  

Dresses for Mila!

Just recently I had the pleasure of attending

 a baby shower!  The young lady is adopting 

a two year old orphan from Uganda, Mila!

That is so amazing!

I whipped up a few simple dresses 

for Mila.  Using the #pillow case

 pattern for the first two dresses,

 this is what I sewed!

I just measured the front side of 

dress from seam to seam and cut 

 a piece of lace with the 

measurement I just took.  I  

sewed the top of lace in place!

Here I  cut (2) pieces of lace measuring 7" 

long.  Then I cut (1) 7-1/2" long 

piece of dress fabric and pressed 

down all the edges. Next,  sew

 this piece down the center!  Remember

 to start sewing below the top seam or 

you won't be able to get the 

ribbon through the seam!!

Here I used a pattern, but the pattern was

 so bad.  I ended up making by own pattern! 

Here she is wearing one of her dresses!

So Cute!!

He Has Made Everything Beautiful In Its Time.  
Ecclesiastes 3:11  

Red, White and Blue Mini Quilt

Here's my red, white and blue mini quilt!

About a month ago I was rearranging my books in

 my sewing room and came across one of many favorites 

books I own, "Little Quilts All Through The House," 

by Alice Berg, Mary Ellen Von Holt and 

Sylvia Johnson.  It's a cute book filled with 

lots of photos and you can use your scraps too!   

Flipping the pages, I came across this quilt.

Well, I just had to make it!  Forth of July was 

coming up and I've always wanted to have a 

quilt for every holiday!  I gathered up my 

materials, fabric I already owned.  Yeah!!!  

Cut and sewed my strips together.

Instead of sewing individual blocks and hearts

 on my mini quilt as directed on the pattern, 

I decided to just cut the size of the finished

  block with my star fabric.  I sandwiched 

the batting with the front and back fabric.  

I then used a decorative wave stitch just on 

the star area of the quilt. 

I then used a straight stitched on the rows of 

red and white strips.  I used the width of 

my walking foot to determine the 

width between stitches. 

Here's a look at the back of my mini quilt.

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He Has Made Everything Beautiful In Its Time.  
Ecclesiastes 3:11