{Trisha's apron}

Trisha is a friend of mine from church. Actually, I first met her when she was a student teacher for my oldest daughter's choir class a few years ago. Then when we moved back in March we ended up in the same ward and I got to know Trisha while we were both in Primary together.  She just moved down to St. Maarten last week for her husband to go to medical school.  I already miss her!

She asked me to make her a ruffly apron. She gave me a picture to base it on, so this is what I came up with. It's defintaely not perfect (shh, don't look too close), but it was my first time making an apron and I did make my own pattern for it. I loved the prints she picked out, so fun!

onesie dress & a burp cloth

I made this little dress for my good friend, Marissa's new little one that will be coming soon, as well as a burp cloth and a little headband and hair clip.

a new little one...

These fun baby items were ones I made for my cousin's baby shower back in May.  I have wanted to make one of these little "tie onesies" for a long time.  They are so adorable!

I also made a changing pad and baby wipes case that fold and wrap up together.  I found the tutorial for the folding changing pad here, which wraps around the wipes case and a diaper and closes with velcro.

a t-shirt makeover

(sorry, the picture is a little blurry and there too much light)

Last year our 2nd daughter was on the JV soccer team at her high school.  When we ordered t-shirts we accidently ordered a child size shirt and sweatshirt for her so they were a little small.  Well, they actually fit her little brothers (ages 9 & 7).  That's pretty bad.  I couldn't believe I had done that.  So, to try to make it up to her I told her I would take in my t-shirt to fit her.  She tried to talk me out of it, but I told her it was more important for her to have one than for me to.

I used one of her other t-shirts to measure for the size, and took it in to fit her! She was so excited! I hope you can see in the above picture how I cut down the large shirt. I cut the shoulder seam out first, to raise the sleeve higher on the shoulder, and then cut out the side seam all the way up to the end of the sleeve.  Last I hemmed the bottom of the shirt. 

And we made the shirt into a small,  from a large and my daughter has a new t-shirt again.

Rosette shirt

Here's a fun project I just made yesterday. I have been wanting to make one of these fun shirt redo's for a long time. I was going to make one with floppy flowers, but decided to do these rosette's instead.



I purchased 2 of the same shirts. They were only $3 each at Walmart. I wanted the V-neck shirts, but they didn't have any in a color that I wanted, so I went with the round neck. So for only $6 I have a new blouse, that doesn't look like anyone else's.



Sorry about all the wrinkles...I didn't have time to take pictures before I had to run off to my first day back to school, so I took them after, and you all know how things get wrinkled just simply by wearing them!




As requested I will do a tutorial on these rosettes soon & I will also have some available to purchase for those that are interested!



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Ladybug pj bottoms

Here's the reveal from my little sneak peek yesterday...

I made these cute pj bottoms for my Cammi & her friend L. They wanted matching pj pants for girl's camp & they wanted to do camoflauge (to go with the Girl's Camp theme) but I talked them into doing this much cuter print instead. The camo fabric was twice as expensive (& no where near as cute)! I think the polka-dot cuff at the bottom makes them even cuter!

Here's the close-up again!

I made matching headbands for them too, but my pics didn't turn out good! So I'll retake that pic tomorrow!