My precious pumpkins!!

I have fully immersed myself in fall fever! I love everything about this time of year - the food, family, weather, sports, pumpkin patches, etc. I have so many fun ideas for fall-motif sewing projects. My first fall project was matching paneled pillowcase dresses for my girls.

Here is my latest project which involved all three of my kids!
Can you see the applique'? This is my first applique' project and I look forward to doing it more often and getting better and better at it!! Even though Grace missed out on being in the matching outfit picture, I got some cute ones of Gabe and Isabelle loving on their new sister in their pumpkin outfits.

Here are some sweet individual pictures...

Want to see more pics of this fully-lined romper?

Here are some rompers made for boys.
Here are some rompers made for girls.
Here are rompers made especially for football season.

Matching pillowcase dresses for the fall!

Fall is here and I am so excited!! I wanted to make some matching dresses for Isabelle and Grace but since I am still in the newborn baby fog, I decided to keep the patterns simple and make pillowcase dresses. I love the fall fabric and I love how the dresses turned out!!

The hardest part of the whole thing was getting a decent picture of the 2 of them in their dresses! Oh well...

The individual pics came out much better! Here is Isabelle and her dress:


Here is Grace and her dress (gotta love those sleeping newborns!):

Want to see some more pillowcase dresses?

Want to see some more pics of matching outfits for kids to get some ideas for those special little ones in your life?

Nursing pillow cover

Well, I have gone off the beaten path again of sewing primarily matching outfits and have made a non-clothing item. Since I nurse Grace, I use a nursing pillow and I wind up washing the cover a lot because she spits up quite a bit. I decided to make my own cover because the ones in the stores were either not very soft or too expensive. So, I found this great free pattern online. It actually calls for using a zipper but I have not mastered zippers yet and figured that iron-on velcro would work just as well and it did!

A couple of hints about this pattern in case you wind up using it... it calls for a 1/4" seam allowance. I am not sure if it is because I have washed my nursing pillow or if it because I have used the pillow with 3 kids, but when I made the pillow cover, it was a bit big for my pillow. So, I recommend sewing it with a 1/4" seam allowance, trying it on your pillow and then you can go over it again with a larger allowance. It takes no time at all to run the straight stitch around it. I wound up using a 1/2" allowance and still think it could use a few nips and tucks here and there.

Here is a picture of the back so you can see where the velcro is.


Here is a picture of my little Grace enjoying her new cover!

Welcome Grace Liesel

Our precious Grace Liesel was born on September 18 and I am so in love with her!! It is so fun to snuggle with her and to put her in all the cute girl outfits that we have.