Halloween Costumes

Here's some more of the halloween costumes I made this year. I was commissioned to make the witch costume and I think it turned out nicely.

The other two "costumes" were my own bright ideas. :oP Some of my daycare kids bring their stuffed animals to daycare. Here we have "Cookie" the cat sporting the latest in fish wear. We HAD to have a ruffle "cause she's a girl cat, Corinna".

Next we have "Frosty" who's life long dream was to have a bone cape to wear out on the town. All the lady dogs will be very impressed with him I'm sure!

Thaddaeus....Thadeus

I just got off the phone with my sister (who got to hold the baby for 25 mins, I'm sooo jealous!) and she says they're spelling baby's name Thadeus. Jody (my brother) said this morning that "it was like the apostle in the bible" so I assumed that meant they were spelling it that way. Apparently not. lol

And now I have pictures!

This last one is my brother with his new baby. I'm sure he's just yawning here, not crying. ;o)

How to make a quilt in 24 hrs

Friday 5pm - Phone call from mom to say a cousin, Tim, that I haven't seen in 4or 5 years is coming to visit. Tim has a baby girl who turns 1 in Nov.

6pm - I decide I want to make baby Jessica a quilt. Decide on a design and go check out my stash of pink

6:30pm - Start cutting random strips of pink and sew them together.

8:30pm - Decide that just plain strips are boring and think of something I could applique on one of the strips. Elephants come to mind.

9pm - Find a elephant outline on google images. Print it out and get the elephants cut out and fused on. Do a blanket stitch by machine around each elephant. There were three. Finish piecing the top.

10:50pm - Go to weekend job. (not to worry, I get to sleep there)

Saturday 9am - Leave work and go buy a backing fabric. Bring it home and wash it.

11am - Start basting. Take phone call from Mom. Realize that Tim has a step daughter who's six that came as well. Crap. Forgot about her.

12pm - Decide to make a My Little Pony tote bag for the older sister Madison

1pm - Go buy ric rac for the tote bag. Finish tote bag. It looks great.

2pm - Start quilting the quilt. Loopy meander with a flower here and there.

3:30 pm - Attach binding.

4:15 pm - Throw the quilt in the wash.

4:45 pm - Take the quilt out of the washing machine and take it to mom and dad's to dry because that's where we're having supper.

4:50pm - Realize you don't have your camera to take pictures of the quilt.

5:30 - Give the nice warm quilt to the baby. :o) And the tote bag to the sister.

5:31pm - Realize that you may just have to make a quilt for the older sister after all!

The quilt pictures were taken with Dad's camera and he was kind enough to e-mail them to me. Thanks Dad!

It's a boy!

Looks like I finished the baby quilt just in the nick of time! Yes that's right I'm offically an auntie now. Thaddaeus Edward was born Sunday morning around 4 am. He's 7lbs 13oz and it sounds like it was a pretty smooth delivery. No pictures yet but I may phone my brother and see if he'll take a picture with his phone and e-mail it to me.

The quilt was finished late friday night and yesterday I took it to Mom and Dad's so they can take it to Winnipeg when they leave today. I think it turned out really well. I just did random lines across the blocks. They were supposed to be straight lines....but most of them are a little curved. lol Oh well, we'll just pretend I wanted it that way. ;o)

I must say I'm pretty excited about being an Auntie. I feel like I should go shopping for boy clothes now. lol

Another gifty

I decided last night that I needed to make a gift for a little daycare girl who turned 2 in Sept. She had just started coming here when her mom unexpectantly had to take two weeks off work. Her birthday was in those two weeks so I kind of missed getting her anything.

So I wanted to make her something educational, fun and cute. Hmmm a doll? Stuffed animal? Think, think, think. Bean bags....with letters...and numbers on them! And ric-rac! Perfect!

So at 11pm I started these. I found a nice font on Word to use as a stencil. Fused everything on and then did a bit of a stitch around everything with embroidery floss just to make sure the letters stayed on...and to make it cuter. I didn't have any blue ric rac and I wanted to try the piping to see how it would look. I like it. I finished them up this afternoon while the kids were sleeping. :o) They're so cute! My poor photography doesn't do them justice. I'm going to give them to her tomorrow with a printout on activities to do with bean bags.

And now I must, MUST, MUST get that baby quilt finished! Baby's coming any day now. Ack!

Mom and Dad's 25th Anniversary

Moneik has posted about the signature quilt she made for her parents 25th anniversary. I found it funny/interesting that MY parents had their 25th less than a month after hers and I also made my parents a signature quilt!

I paper pieced all the blocks, bought the special markers and then mailed them out with the instructions to all the relatives. Everyone mailed them back promptly and I finished it in time to give it to them at the party. It was a lot of work but totally worth it. It still has a place of honour on their wall nearly 4 years later. :o)

Weekend update....on a Tuesday. :oP

I managed to get three and a half things crossed off my October to-do list this weekend.



First I managed to replace the weather stripping on the side door. I'd only had the new weather stripping for a year! lol It's still drafty under the door though so it looks like I'll have to do something with the threshold bumper yet.



Next I finished a puppy costume for a daycare boy (GH) to use for halloween. His mom has also commissioned me to make is sister a witch costume.

(Pictures posted with parental permission)

Isn't he so cute! :o) He liked it so much he would have kept it on all day but it was just too warm for that. I love the white tipped tail. Oh and ignore the mess of toys behind him.

Gh's 2nd birthday is on friday so I've made him a pillowcase with the fabric he picked out the last time we were at the fabric shop. He loooves tractors! I also had just enough to make him a little pillowcase to put on his napping pillow for daycare. The kids use little travel pillows for naptime here.

I also half finished the binding on the wallhanging panel I bought over a year ago. I finished it this evening. I'll hang it whenever one of the kids is having a birthday.



Then I pulled out all the summer shoes from the entrance way. No need for the lawn mowing shoes for a long time! lol Nor the soccer cleats, baseball cleats and all those sandles. Now there's lots of room for winter boots. ((shutter))
Now I have just 4 things to finish on my October to-do list.
1. Two pairs of pj's for GH (the pattern I ordered came today finally)
2. Baby quilt for my niece or nephew (need to finish that this week)
3. AH's witch costume
4. Special quilted bag to take projects in to quilting club

Only #2 and #3 HAVE to be finished this month but I'm optimistic that I can finish them all by the 31st.