| Tons of New Pictures! September/October 2002 |
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| Nursing dress made from Butterick 6553. It's hard to see in the picture, but it's a linen-look khaki color with very faint pink roses all over it. |
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| Nursing dress from ELD 207, tulip overlay. It's a pretty brown rayon that I got really cheap at the Dollar Saver fabric store. This dress cost less than $6! |
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| Connor's Knotty Baby - these are so fast and easy to make! The body is a really soft stretchy velour, the head is polar fleece scraps. I've been making these as baby shower gifts. |
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| Patrick's puppet theater - It goes in a doorway on a tension rod. The blue part is 1 yard of 54" wide felt, the curtains are gold lame. This was a very fast, easy, and inexpensive project, and he *loves* it. |
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| For my birthday, my mom and I signed up for a quilting class together, and this is the project I made. This is just the top - I haven't started quilting yet. It's eventually going to be a wall hanging over our bed. |
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| Here is a close-up of the fabrics in the quilt |
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| This is the little sample piece of hand-quilting I did for the class. The picture is a little hard to see, but it's a flower. I cut it out and used some scraps from the quilt to make a little throw pillow. |
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| My kitchen window valance made from the yellow and blue teapot fabric. I had looked everywhere for yellow and blue teapots, and finally found some at Dollar Saver for $1.99 a yard. I was so excited, I think the clerk thought I was a little nuts. : ) |
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| More Dollar Saver fabric - I bought 2 yards of this decorator fabric for a grand total of $6.50 to make a valance for our bedroom. Our room used to be blue and yellow, and we recently bought a burgundy/beige/green bedspread, so we had to get all new accessories, too. This window isn't finished yet, but I haven't decided what else to put up there. |
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| This is the quilt I made for a friend of mine as a baby gift. The colors don't look nearly as pretty in the picture as they did in person. The green colored squares have a butterfly print on them, and in several of them it looks like a little butterfly is peeking out. I was really happy with how it turned out. |