I'm Back!

A lot has happened since I last posted:

• My daughter is now an R.N. and is working full time at a Pediatrics Clinic. 
• My granddaughter is growing up too fast - 5 1/2 now.
• They live 1.9 miles down the road from us now, instead of with us, we're officially empty nesters.
• I sewed, sometimes a lot and sometimes a little.
• The little dresses/shirts/skirts are getting so big.  Size 6 now!
• Discovered a break from blogging was nice, on Flickr a lot now - I'm juneauwendy1.
• The Mr. and I went to the Waterfront Blues Fest in Portland last summer.
• It was Africa hot there.  
• I realized how much I love Southeast Alaska.

 In the sun and having fun - it was a great festival!

Little quilt designer!

Size 6 Green Bee dress in the works!
Size 6!!!

Size 6 just seems crazy.
  Hoping to have this dress finished tonight, its a Green Bee pattern, a simple, sweet A-line shift.
Think its called Iris but not sure.
Sophie said she really likes it, so maybe she won't be a pill and try it on the first time I ask?

Hi Becky!

Birthday patchwork

My Dad's birthday is coming up, and I'm almost done with his present! I will mail it off tomorrow... 2nd day or else it will be late.
I want it to be a surprise, so here is just a little sneak peek, can you guess what it is?!

Not another dress!

I recently made these three Kidlets, the clever tutorial can be found here.
These little fabric 'buckets' are great for hanging around for Sophie to put her stuff in... they kind of flop open when hanging, which makes the patchwork pocket kind of invisible to all but really short people, like Sophie and her friends, but also easy for their little hands to reach into!

A little close up of each one...
Green -

Black -

Pink -

Sophie and I did make a quick little sundress last night, and we have more planned, so the next post will probably be dresses again!

Yet another dress!

This is the third dress, and my 6th using the Tea Party Sundress pattern - I was cruising right along and forgot to add the flat piping on this one, oh well, Sophie didn't notice.
For some reason she loves this scissor fabric!
The front -

The back -

And on the girl!

Next post I'll have some quilty things to share, I promise!

Another Dress

Sophie's Easter dress - with this one too, she helped pick out the fabrics and sat in my lap a bit while I was sewing it. This is a Pink Fig pattern, the Lydia Dress. There was a little apron on the front, but I didn't like how it turned out, so cut it off and covered the edge with a little free standing ruffle.

We woke up to about two inches of snow on Easter morning! Sophie was very excited about the whole situation, but mostly the candy!

The Easter Bunny didn't bring this, that would have been great though! I sewed this egg a while ago, and it was a big hit. Seems like every toddler needs a wool felt fried egg for their play kitchen -
Ariana at Crow Roosters Crow has the tut on her sidebar, and she has lots of other great ideas for little ones -

Spring Dresses

Having a big time sewing little dresses.... this is dress #3 in the past week.
Sophie helped pick out the fabric, AND, she helped sew it!
Oliver & S Tea Party Dress, in size 3T, using Heather Ross and Kei honeycomb dots.
The front...

The back...

The wild girl... !

A busy weekend

Some weekend sewing was done - here are some blocks for the back of this quilt!
I planned to piece the back, so had some leftovers. I really hope to get this finished and mailed off to my parents by the end of March - It was supposed to be their Christmas quilt!

Some more blocks for the Paintbox Quilt a Long -

These might be my favorite so far, I don't plan on using too much purple, but a little is nice.

And here is all of them so far, a little stack of blocks on a little stack of firewood -

I took all of these pictures on the patio, that explains the cement floor and the chair full of firewood....