Luke's Tent

A lot of people ask me how I have time to sew, with two kids running around. I mainly sew at night once the boys are asleep, or on weekend afternoons, during Lucas's nap while Dillon watches a movie. But the other day I was trying to get some things done, and Lucas was getting into everything.

I had laid three yards of corduroy that I'd just ironed over the backs of two chairs, so it wouldn't wrinkle while I was getting ready to cut it up and sew it. Lucas thought it looked like a tent, so in he went, and called it "fabbic tent for ME!"

Here's what the rest of the room looked like while he was playing:

Stroller seat pad

In an attempt to "orange up" my boring blue stroller, I made a reversible seat pad for it from some awesome corduroy. One side is solid orange fine wale cord, and the other side has a cool multi-striped cord. I love these cords so much I don't want to let Lucas sit on them!

I just LOVE this striped cord! It reminds me of the circus, which I hate, but it seems so bright and cheery to me.

Wild Pink Emilee

A few weekends ago it snowed BIG, and Dillon and Lucas spent hours playing outside with Emilee, our neighbor. They had a blast, and while they played (with my Mom) I got to sit inside and sew. Emilee somehow inspired me, and since I had some girly stuff from a big bag of fabric my friend had given me recently, I made a girly pair of fleece pants for her. YES, the fabric IS that loud and bright in person, it's not just your screen! She LOVED them, and the following weekend she was over when I was making fleece socks, and I made a solid magenta pair to match her pants. The pics of the socks are still on my cam's memory card, but here's the pants.

I *LOVE* the lettuce edging on the hems; it was SO easy and turned out really cute, if I do say so myself.

And the modeling shot. Can you tell that Lucas just adores Emilee?

Flannel crib sheet

After not being able to find any crib-sized flannel sheets for under $30/pair, I found some directions online to make a pillowcase-style crib sheet for Lucas. He rarely sleeps in his crib, but I figured I'd make the sheet anyway, just in case. We found this flannel at Joanns, and Lucas, who adores Rolie Polie Olie, thought this looked like Olie. It has velcro at one end, so he can't take it off himself. Not that he's ever tried, but the sheet looked weird and floppy on the mattress, so the Velcro really helped.

It cost me $3 for the flannel, as I bought it on "Black Friday" when JA's had flannel for $1 per yard. I already had the Velcro in my stash, but I probably paid $3 for 3 yards of it, and used about 1 yard on the sheet. So $4 for a flannel sheet isn't bad!

Pillowcases...aka BUFF

Last Friday Dillon asked me to *finally* make him something from a length of red soccer balls flannel that we've had around for ages. Since he's got so many pairs of Mama-made pants already, and there's not a lot of things I am able to do with flannel, we decided on a pillowcase.

I liked it so much that I made one for myself also, from a cute ladybug flannel.

Ducky tags

Lucas loved the little T@ggie that I made him last fall so much that I wanted to make him a larger one for Christmas. I found this cute rubber ducky fleece and yellow fleece, and ended up with enough to make him a matching pillowcase as well. He wasn't interested in them at all on Christmas, but he does sleep with them every night now.

Christmas beanbags

Back before Christmas, I let Dillon pick out some fabrics for me to make into beanbags for the boys. I got it washed, ironed and cut out, and then moved on to another project, and totally forgot about this one. I finally got these Christmas beanbags stuffed (with navy beans) and sewn up. And only a month late!