Craft-A-Little

I participated in DQS9 this summer.  Look at the lovely package of goodies that was sent to me by emedoodle!  This was her first try at cathedral windows- LOVE them.  I still don’t understand how they are constructed though. 

And check out my cool new scissor thing.  This is my 2nd favorite thing that came in the package- my new doll quilt being my favorite!  She also made a second quilt for Little Helper- so I don’t have to share mine.  So sweet of her to think of my little girl.  For the full run down on everything that is in here, check it out my flickr   photostream.

I guess I had better get my quilt in the mail for my partner!!

Well, I still can’t upload a photo to my blog.  I keep forgetting to have my IT dept take a look at it.  I think that the problem is that I am trying to upload photos that are too big.  So, I need to learn how to make them smaller before uploading them.  I am sure that I will learn that soon!  In the mean time…I am using flickr.  Unfortunately, I can’t get my blog to link to flickr and I don’t know what the deal is with that.  But…my IT dept isn’t home tonight, so it will have to wait.  For now, I will just link you to photos on flickr. 

I have a few things to share…first…I finished my doll quiltfor DQS9.  It isn’t as fancy as most of the ones that people are making.  I kind of feel like mine isn’t as cool as everyone else’s.  But I really like it.  And Little Helper keeps asking me if it is hers.  I have had to promise that I will make one for her.  But since I put the first letter of my partner’s name on the back, I have told her that hers will have an A for her name on the back and that is how she will know it is hers. 

I am also working on the sleep sack for my neice that will be born in September.  It took me a while to choose fabric, but I finally did!  Here is what I chose.  I kind of went back and forth on whether I wanted to follow the same idea that AMH did in the book and do 2 in squares for the patchwork front or if I was going to switch it up and do something different.  In the end, I decided 2 in squares (well, I cut them to 2.5 and finished they are 2 in).  I decided on the squares for 2 reasons:  I really like how it looked in the book done that way and I feel somewhat short on time and I didn’t want to spend a lot of time doing something and then end up not liking it. 

I did think that rather than doing a 20×24 in rectangle as suggested in the book, I cut out my pattern front and used it as I went to just sew together enough squares to cover the pattern.  I think that this picture shows what I mean.  And here is the fabric not covered by the pattern ease. 

Now I have 2 decisions to make. 

1. What fabric should I used for the back?  My husband has suggested thisone.  This fabric looks totally different in person than it does in thie picture.  I was really trying hard to figure out if it was the same one.  I was thinking the clouds.  What do you think??
2. Do I want to try to add a zipper?  I really prefer sleep sacks with zippers, but I am not sure if it is a good idea to add a zipper the first time I make it.  I am not sure if I am that experienced of a sewer yet!  I have to go to Joann’s tomorrow for some flannel lining and velcro anyway, so I might pick up a zipper and see how things go!

I am hoping to have this sleep sack done this weekend!  Hopefully I will be sharing finished photos of this by the end of day Sunday.  I also have to admit, that if I have a little girl, I might totally copy the sleep sack that AMH did in her book.  I just so LOVE the one that she did in her pink Little Folks Voile.  It is also possible that if I have a boy, I will just copy it, but in blue. 

I am so excited to have gotten a spot in the 9th round of the Doll Quilt Swap!  Yay!  And I believe that I owe my swap partner a little bit of info about my likes and dislikes…so here it is!

Hi Swap Partner! 

First, I want to thank you for taking the time to make something for me that I am sure is going to be awesome.  I can’t wait to see it! 

Second, I know that I have been terrible about really getting my likes and dislikes out there.  I do have some favorites in my flickr photostream, but I never did a mosaic and I don’t have any info in my flickr profile and I don’t even remember what I put on my DQS9 sign up sheet!  So- sorry about that!  I am now sharing this info with you just in case you aren’t sure what to do.  However- if you are already inspired with a fantastic idea- please go with it!  I do not want to deter you from a path that you are excited about!

I find it so hard to narrow down what I like!  There are so many things out there that I wouldn’t think that I would like, but I love!  So, I am going to try.  But just because I don’t say it here, doesn’t mean that I won’t like it.  I can say that I don’t like things that are super busy.  My favorite colors are pink (probably a fuchsia-y pink) and I like purple.  I like aqua and other light blues.  Spring green is great.  I guess I don’t like really dark colors or neon colors.  But I like bright and saturated colors.  I like wonky, I like straight lines, I like appliqued stuff and I like embroidered quilt.  I haven’t really done much of either (well- no embroidery yet) but I would like to get some experience in both at some point!  I like the quilts that are like little pictures, and I like the ones that are more traditional designs (in more modern colors).  I always hear people talking about fabrics that are civil war reproductions- not really sure what these look like, but they don’t sound like ones that I would be into.   

I am also fairly certain that Little Helper (my 2.5 year old daughter) is going to claim this as hers.  And it will be loved by her and her babies, no matter what it looks like!  And if she is happy, I am happy.  (I know- cheesy, but I am a mom!  And that is really how I feel!) 

So…have fun!  And I am so excited to see what you create!!

I signed up for the Doll Quilt Swap # 7 last week.  I am quite excited about it.  Today I got my swap partner’s info.  It is funny, because I have been on his/her blog before.  I remember coming across it during one of the recent giveaways.  Unfortunately, that is all the information I can really give you about him/her.   

For this swap, I did spend some time going through some flickr stuff and putting together a little mosaic thing so that my swap partner could see what kinds of things I like. 

Now-  I am having some trouble with the crediting of these pictures.  So head on over to my flickr account- The credits will all be listed there. 

So- a message to my doll quilt swap partner- I like the quilts that I have listed in my mosaic (obviously   ) but I do not want you to feel limited!  I am sure that you see a theme in the colors that I like, but really- be creative and have fun!  If it helps, you can think of it like it is for my daughter- Little Helper- because she is going to take it and use it for her babies.  And she is not picky at all- she is 1.5.  :)  She loves babies and she loves to play pretend.  She takes care of her babies and covers them with blankets and tells them “nite nite.”  And she recently got a new pair of pajamas and they are her favorites.  She gets so excited to put on the fairy princess shirt.  Sometimes she doesn’t want to put on the shirt- she just wants to hug the fairy princess and talk to her and read stories to her.  She is so cute.  And seriously- I am not biased at all.    So please please please have fun and don’t stress! 

Now…to go stalk my swap partner and stress about what I am going to do…