Kid Stuff

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I made The Boy a bowling shirt to wear to his sister's party. When I asked him what he wanted me to make for his party he chose another bowling shirt. The Scientific Seamstress has a lot of options in her pattern, so it was fun to make another shirt using the same pattern that was totally different. After choosing my collection of coordinating blender fabrics I had him chose which three he liked best. We like wild, but while I knew I'd use all seven fabric's for The Girl's dress, I thought that might be a little over the top for the bowling shirt. I made this one a little longer than his ladybug shirt, and I opted to make the middle stripe of fabric longer than the pattern suggested, since it was my feature fabric. I love it!

front of shirtback of shirtThe Boy in shirtmodeling the shirtstrike a pose
Thanks for taking a look at one of my 2014 Q3 Finish Along Goals. Check out The Girl's party dress from yesterday's post.

I'm linking up on Let's Bee Social and Show and Tell Tuesday.

I'm linking up to Finish Along Quarter 3 Finish Party. Here is my full list of Q3 Finish Along Goals.

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For The Boy's 4th birthday party the theme was Airplanes and Helicopters. I had nearly two fat quarters of this cute juvenile print:

airplane and helicopter fabric

After a trip to The Intrepid Thread, I had a half dozen lovely blender fabrics to go with it.

For The Girl, I had decided to make CKC's Jewel's Stripwork Dress. It's less detailed than some of the dresses I've made, so I thought it would go together quickly and I was right. It's also neat that there are a lot of options, three sleeve lengths, bottom ruffle, sash, not to mention I could make this exact style but just use a different number of fabrics. Since I had 6 fabrics I wanted to use for the skirt portion this time I just did 12 panels (instead of 14) for a slightly less full skirt. I'll definitely be making this dress again!

hanging dress

front of dressback of dress

Obligatory spinning picture:

spinning

Thanks for taking a look at one of my 2014 Q3 Finish Along Goals. Take a look at what The Boy wore.

I'm linking up to Fabric Frenzy Friday.

I'm linking up to Finish Along Quarter 3 Finish Party. Here is my full list of Q3 Finish Along Goals.

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In July, I'm participating in a second round of swapping quiet book pages with some local moms. That brings to mind the fact that I never shared the result after my first swap, when I made the fish pages this past Spring.

In round one I made 13 identical pages and ended up with a lovely book that both The Girl and The Boy have really enjoyed. I'm excited to be adding new pages to it.

 

Bead Counting by Kate

I've always liked this one when I've seen it online. (I'm drawn to all number things, being a former math teacher!) The Girl likes to count the beads. We also talk about the colors.

bead counting pagebead counting

 

Shapes by Dawn & Shannon

This is a great no-sew page. The Girl loves this one. Now she knows all the colors and all the shapes. She also thinks I'm really silly when I stick a shape in the wrong place.

shapes page

 

Mitten by Shellie

Both kids like to put their hand into the mitten. It's a bummer my giant hand doesn't fit. Especially because purple is my favorite color. ;-)

mitten page

 

Monkey Brushing Teeth by Amber

First, oh my gosh! The detail on this hand sewn page is great! The kids both love brushing the monkey's teeth. This page makes me smile every time I see it.

monkey brushing teeth pagemonkey detailbrushing monkey's teeth

 

Tic Tac Toe by Dawn & Shannon

The Girl isn't quite ready to learn the ins and outs of tic tac toe, so she just enjoys taking the X's and O's out of the pocket and sticking them anywhere. The Boy has just learned the game, so we occasionally get a game in when The Girl isn't looking.

tic tac toe page

 

Sock Matching by Nicki

This is another of The Girl's favorites. I love that the socks are on ribbons, so they aren't loose pieces.

sock matching page asock matching page bplaying match-a-sock

 

Mr. Potato Head by Sarah and Mellissa

Who doesn't love Mr. Potato Head!? Complete with his bucket of parts, these pages are super fun. The Girl has peeled apart some of the pieces that were glued together, like the earrings that were attached to the ears. So far it's working for them to just be separate, but I might stitch them together.

Mr. Potato Head pagesMr. Potato Head partsplaying with Mr. Potato Head aplaying with Mr. Potato Head b

 

Farm Pages by Anne

Another one of my personal favorites. Such detail! The Girl has learned how to unbutton the barn closure to get to the adorable farm animal finger puppets. She likes to put them on the field page and also on her fingers.

farm pages afarm pages bfarm pages cfarm pages dplaying with the farm

 

Fish by Me

When I was deciding on which page I'd do I liked this one because it had movement, but no removable parts.

fish page

 

Flowers by Mary

Neither kiddo is really buttoning yet. The Boy has just started to try to work on buttons with this page. The Girl just likes to tell me to do it. ;-) When the flowers are off the pot functions as a pocket to keep them in.

flower page a

flower page b
Monica stitched all the pages together and put them together as a book. I love the grommet and ring setup, because we can add pages to the book, or swap them out to change things up.

Thanks for looking. After this weekend I'll be cranking out my pages for round two!

I'm linking up on Show and Tell Tuesday.