Candy Bar Wrappers

I found these wicked candy bar wrappers this morning on Skip to My Lou. I love when I come across such a cute and easy idea! So I give all of the credit to her ... I even copied her wording ... so thanks, Skip to My Lou. Everyone go check our her cute blog.

For the mummy, stick two wiggly eyes at the top of the candy bar, wrap white crepe paper party streamer around the candy bar, and fasten off with some tape.

For the bat, print out the template {you can get it here}, cut bat out of black construction paper, add eyes, tape ends of candy bar wrapper to the back. Place candy bar inside and wrap wings around candy bar and fasten with double stick tape or a glue dot.

Memory Quilt {lesson learned}

Alright, today I did the second block for my memory quilt, but it didn't go as smoothly as the first. The difference; I used clothes with different types of fabrics. I knew that if I was sewing a knit fabric that I would need to use fusible interfacing, but the cotton ... or less stretchy ... stuff didn't need it ... or so I thought! I'm thinking that if I use the fusible interfacing on all types of fabric then it will work out a little better. That way there wont but such a difference in thickness. We'll see ... I'll let you know how it goes!!

So ... here they are. The first two blocks in my tedious {but fun} project. I wont have these two next to each other because every other block will have white for the outside border.

Memory Quilt {sneak peek}

Okay, well I finally started sewing together my memory quilt {and let me tell you ... this is a PROJECT! If the fabric is knit ... t-shirt material ... then I have to use fusible interfacing so they wont stretch too much.}. I'm excited how the first block turned out ... I'm only hoping I can pull this off!

I really have been struggling letting go of all of my girls' baby clothes ... kind of sad for me since we wont have any more kids. So I decided to keep them and cut them up for a quilt.

I took a "before" picture of most of the clothes I'm using.

Here is my first square. I'm going to do each block like this, only on every other block the outside border is going to be white. I'm going to try to coordinate each square, but as far as all of the blocks going together ... they wont.

Here are some of the clothes I used ...

{All of my girls wore this one. There are only a few things that they all wore, so I'm really trying to use those pieces!}

{This one I only used the end of one of the sleeves - so far - for the "pretty" tag}

The Poppy Doll

I have loved the Poppy Doll from Hop Skip Jump, and was so excited when she made her pattern available. {You can get yours here}. I got it a couple days ago, and made my first one today. I made it for my 18 month old, but my 8 year old has played with it all day. It was kind of a "whoever gets it first" battle all day!

I have been in the mood of refashioning things ... like turning my old shirts and my husbands dress shirts into dresses or skirts for my kids. I used an old bed skirt's middle for a crib skirt that I made {here}, so I used the actual skirt part of it for the skin of this doll. The pattern calls for a wool fleece, but I'm trying not to spend any money, so I used what I had.

I wish I could give more of a tutorial, but since she sells her pattern I didn't think it would be nice of me to do that. Sorry!! Go get the pattern!! It's fairly easy and it comes with patterns for a few pieces of clothing as well.

I used her pattern for a top and added a strip along the bottom to turn it into a dress.

I told her to put her new baby "night night", but I think she got confused and thought I told her to go night night on her new baby. She didn't move for a good 5 minutes. I thought she really would go to sleep ... no such luck! ;)

Ribbon Blanket & Block ... GIVEAWAY!!

I don't know if you've noticed but I love Moda Bake Shop; a quilting blog with TONS of "quilty" tutorials. Today I checked out her site and found this cute tutorial, and at the end it directs you to her other blog, Our Cozy Nest, where she is giving away all of the fabric, ribbons, and batting to complete this project, as well as some other bonuses!! Go check out Our Cozy Nest and enter for her giveaway ... here's hoping!!

Memory Quilt ... ??

So my husband & I have decided not to have anymore kids, and I have been going back & forth on what to do with all of these totes and boxes and bags of outgrown baby clothes. I have decided that I really want to make a quilt of some sort, but not sure what to do exactly.

SO my question is ... have you ever made one? I don't want it to just be patchwork squares, because I'm going to have a lot of items that I wont be able to get a full square out of. I'm thinking a log cabin quilt?? What have you done, or do you have any idea on what I should do??

Hit me with some ideas!! Thanks!!

I Remember

Moda posted this quilt today that they made for all of the children born after 9/11 who would be missing their fathers due to the attacks. I thought it was so sweet and it makes me want to make something to donate to someone/somewhere ... maybe Children's Hospital?? I love inspiring posts!! Thanks Moda, for such a sweet and selfless gesture! Visit their website here!!