Handy Nappy pouch and one sick little girl..

Phew, what a day! Saturday's are such a busy day in this house. Lexie and I are at dancing by 8.30 for nearly two hours and then we head back at 1pm with Abbey. Stace heads out the door to go sailing at 12pm and will not be seen again for some hours.

Since arriving home at 3pm Lexie has become rather sick with a temp of 39.7 and has crashed out on the floor of Abbey's room where she was watching the Brady Bunch.

Even though it has been a busy day I have snuck some sewing in, I made Lexie another Sweet little Dress in a fairy fabric that she loves, I would post a picture but she is fast asleep with it on.
I also made a nappy pack which fits 4 walker size nappies(more I imagine smaller the nappy) and a wipes pack, (I only have a soft pack but it would fit a Huggies travel pack too).
I used a tea towel(new of course!) for the lining and some offcuts from the texture blanket. I went along the same lines as the pencil/notepad set but chopped and changed a few things and added the button and elastic.
Might make a few more of these for friends with little ones that dont want to carry a nappy bag everywhere also handy for Grandma's or the glovebox, boat etc.

Leila and Ben Sweet Little dress....

I have eyed this gorgeous Leila and Ben Sweet little dress on Etsy for ages and finally caved and bought the pattern....wish I had caved earlier as I love it!

I love how simple it is and the versatility, I can see this pattern becoming VERY well used in this house..lol.

Fist attempt was a dress for Lexie so I sed some seersucker in a hibiscus print I got in a remnant pack ages ago and it turned out ok. So today I mad a farmyard one for Miss Mooch in the size 2, it's too short but will look awesome with a pair of cut off shorts. And what is even better was she wanted to put it straight on and is captivated by all the different animals, that is an acheivment as she is very difficult to dress and her clothes are usually on her terms only...I can see her wearing farmyard prints all summer.

A day of sewing...

Today I spent the day either sewing or cleaning or running kids around town...much like any other day really!

Abbey has been complaining that I never sew anything for her so I made her some Pj's in a pretty icypole print fabric, she loves them!

I also got another 2 bag orders, so I now have 5 bags on my to do list(12 completed), I think I will try to get them done over the weekend. I also made a trip to Spotlight last night and stocked up on fabric and bits and peices with the discount coupon saving me over $30...Woot!
I chose some gorgeous fabric to make my neighbour a bag and one for my friends Mum as well, it's ladies with fruit as butt's and I just love it, hope they do to! I will post a pic of the fruit fabric and PJ's now(o:

PJ's and Library bag..

Yesterday I got a few more orders for my bags so I lashed out and ordered some fabric labels, can't wait for them to arrive. Anyhow I felt like making something different to bags so made some Pj's for Chelsea. I used the cutest monkey fabric called "monkey'n around" by Erin Micheal...it is adorable. I used Mcalls pattern 9369 forthe shorts and just appliqued some of the fabric onto a Tshirt I picked up from Kmart for $3.99. The set looks gorgeous...the shorts look a tad odd in the photo but they are fine it's just the way they were lying.

I also whipped up a library bag just for fun as I thought they might sell well at a market stall the school is running in November.

Anyhow must dash...sew much to do today...lol!

Texture Ribbon Blanket for baby Lawson.

A girlfriend of mine that lives interstate had a baby a few weeks back and I wanted to make him something a bit different to all the normal things you get when you pop out a baby.
So I trawled the net for some inspiration and stumbled across these blankets, they are made from soft Minkee fabric, quilting fabric and an assortment of ribbons.
I found the gorgeous mint Minkee at spotlight on the remnants table and it was the perfect size also I scored a bag of ribbon offcuts so all up this blanket cost me about $12.
I decided to cut out some fabric in the letter "L" and sew it onto the fabric side of the blankie, I used a bright orange polkadot offcut.

I am pretty chuffed with the final result.

Do you ever have those days,,,,?

I had one of those days today that everything went wrong, we had a great morning at Abbey's sport carnival and then I came home to get some sewing done. Well first of all I cut out the wrong size handles for one of my bags so will now have to make an extra trip to Spotlight(what a shame :0P) Anyway I then decided to sew Maddi's pencil and notebook holder for her party tomorrow, well that s when all the fun started. Anything and everything that could possibly go wrong went wrong, normally sew one within 45 minutes, this took me 2.5 hours and still ended up all arse about.

Oh well, hopefully Miss Maddi loves it anyway.

Fruit Kebabs..Yummo!

Today it was Lexies turn to take something healthy to kindy, we decided you couldn't get much healthier than a fruit kebeb.
Lexie had a great time making these and apparently they were a hit!

Oh well off to finish Maddi's b'day bag...