I have had the best time smocking and crafting this summer! My dear friend, Lanier, taught me how to smock earlier this summer and I've made 3 outfits so far! The first, a cute little blue gingham bubble with ducks on it for Chisolm:
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| Not the best picture of Chisolm, but you can see the cute outfit on him! |
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| Close up of the ducks |
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| Freshly finished outfit |
I also finished a loooooooong overdue gift for mother. She is known as Lucky to her grandchildren, so I cross stitched some pillowcases with Lucky on them:
My next project was Louisa's birthday dress. She wanted a fire truck birthday party, so at the beginning of the summer I went on a search for fire truck clothing for girls. It doesn't exist! Nothing, not one piece of even remotely girl-ish clothing with anything close to a firetruck. So, I decided that I was going to make her a dress. I chose yellow rosebud fabric because her invitations were yellow with red wording and picture on them. Well, this project got down to the wire! I was actually hemming the dress as people were arriving! But, I finished it (almost, have to add more flowers around the top, but basically...) and it was too cute! Here are some pictures:
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| Cutie pie in her fire hat and dress |
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| Not a great pic of Louisa, but a pretty good close up of the dress. |
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| An action shot of Louisa running to pop a bubble! |
I actually decided to make a firetruck outfit for Chisolm as well. I just finished his. It is a yellow gingham bubble with red piping on which I smocked a firetruck, and 2 hydrants and it turned out soo cute! I have to say, smocking is waaaay easier than I thought it would be. The smocking plate I had called for 3 fire trucks, but there wasn't room for all 3, so I decided to put hydrants on instead. Well, I searched and searched for a plate with hydrants and couldn't find one, so I just made it up! It took slightly longer than it might have otherwise, but was pretty easy. If smocking is something you've thought about taking up--do it!
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| What a little ham! |
I've made burp cloths as baby gifts for a while now, I just recently added on baby wipes cases (thanks to the adorable wipes case Meg gave me when Louisa was born. I've been looking at that for 3 years thinking, "I could do that". Well, I finally just bit the bullet and made one. A quick learning curve (I messed up the first one, but could have used it if I had to. It is now Louisa's for her babydolls), it is super easy. All you need is fabric, ribbon, a plastic travel wipes case (the Huggies travel case seems to work best), and a glue gun. Here are pictures of the first one I did and the 3rd one. I shipped the 2nd one before I remembered to take a picture, whoops!
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| You can see where I singed the ribbon by my finger on this one. |
And here are some other things I've made over this year. I've had so much fun making things, I just wish I had my very own craft room (Alex has his workshop, why not?!)
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| A Carolina quilt/blanket for Billy |
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| fuzzy warm blankets for Reeves and Monnie |
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| Monogrammed pillowcases for Monnie |
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| Quilt/blanket for Liam |
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| burp cloths |
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| And more burp cloths |
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