by Virginia | May 31, 2013 | activities with kids, baby, gardening, Sports
Last night I realized today would be the last day of my favorite month of the year. May is fantastic in Western Pennsylvania. Just beautiful! I am feeling a little let down since I haven't been able to sew much lately but May is a hard month...
by Virginia | Apr 22, 2013 | baby, patterns, sewing, sewing for baby
I have been losing a lot of baby socks lately. On our Washington DC trip, strangers kept coming up to me and either handing me fallen off socks or letting me know the baby was missing a sock. Whoops! Socks don't work so well to keep baby's...
by Virginia | Apr 12, 2013 | activities with kids, baby, quilt, quilts, sewing
I bought a stack of solids and finally starting cutting into them using this method. It’s really cool to try if half square triangles interest you! I love fun sewing tricks, don’t you? I enlarged the fabric pieces to 18″ x 18″...
by Virginia | Mar 20, 2013 | baby, gift, Holiday, patterns, sewing, sewing for baby, tutorial
Since I am having the bunny sale this week, I was trying to think of a way to make more versions of the pattern. In the past I made the bunny smaller by printing it at 65%. You can read about those here. Very cute! I have gotten lots of...
by Virginia | Mar 13, 2013 | baby, patterns, sewing, sewing for baby, tutorial
Making Super Simple Little Bibs My sweet little Marion is almost 4 months old. She is precious but the girl can slobber! And spit up all over me and her clothes several times a day. My other babies were not big spitters/ slobberers so I always looked a little...
by Virginia | Mar 4, 2013 | baby, Books, embroidery, patterns, sewing, sewing for baby
DIY Baby Books! Love em or hate em? The pressure of filling them out makes me aprehensive. I am fine with the initial info about when baby was born, what was happening, what the birth was like, etc. It’s just the follow up that gets me! All the other kids...