Thursday, April 14, 2011

He is Risen!!!

Happy Easter, everyone! Easter is my favorite holiday of the year. I love thinking about the beauty of Christ's blood on the cross and the might of Christ's power shown by the empty tomb!! Here are my precious babies in their Easter outfits (which they will wear well beyond Easter so I am not even sure why I am saying "Easter outfits").


I have already blogged about sewing their outfits. Here is all the info on:

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Cute smocks

I made this smock last year for my daughter. The pattern comes from this great book called One Yard Wonders that my mom bought for me. This is a great gift for any person who sews.
It looks so cute on Isabelle.It looks even cuter when her little friend Holland is wearing the matching one I made for her!
A special little girl in my life named Madelyn turned 3 recently and her birthday party was centered around painting and coloring so I decided to make her a smock for her birthday. I looked and looked and looked for the right fabric. Smock fabric should have fun colors or something paint-related on it. I was about to give up when I found this M and M fabric at Hancocks. Hooray!
I was planning on monogramming an "M" on the smock for Madelyn but now I did not have to do that! Instead of the "M", I decided to applique a paint palette. Doesn't it look cute?

One last thing I changed is to make the smock reversible by adding a second layer of fabric (the turquoise). Having two layers of fabric also helps to make sure no paint gets through; one layer is not quite enough unless you use a thick fabric like duck cloth or household decor fabric.