Yep, sewing for a girl is very different than sewing for boys…

This dress basically the same pattern as the dress I made here but it has been a bit refined and simplified and the beautiful colours are really what make this dress so stunning!

(front and back)

What I really love about this pattern is because of the tie in back, the bodice can be made a bit big and still fit months down the road… I love functionality of clothes that can grow with the child!! Wilhelmina can still wear her owl dress and her mushroom dress easily though the skirt is now a bit short which just makes it look more like a tunic instead of a dress…  the biggest  change that I made to this new dress besides making the skirt longer, was also to make it a bit fuller because I love the look of a full skirt…

I love having my daughter wear handmade clothes…

I have been working on the Quilt each chance I get. It has changed design a few times but now I am really happy with the design I have in mind….

A few pieces are now pieced together with the sashing…

and my decision to try a dresden flower turned into a great center piece for the quilt…

(it isn’t really that lopsided…. really!)

I still have have a lot of work to do. but I am loving what I already have….

When I was pregnant with Xavier I made him a very simple quilt… it was one of my first sewing projects… it was simple, it made from old clothes and second hand scraps, it was small, and it sparked a love for sewing.

Surprisingly, I haven’t quilted since…

I have a lot of material in my sewing room including many 5″ squares that I had cut when I was making some kid dresses a few years ago. I was wondering what I could do with them when I just decided to have fun and experiment… so… I cut the squares into strips and randomly sewed the strips together to make new squares. I put them side to side and thought that they would make a great quilt just as they were….

then I came across this video on how to make an easy pinwheel…

and from that, my colourful striped squares became these…

I put a border around each piece, put batting and a back and made a block that is 9 1/2″ square… and am in the process of making more…

I am just doing it little by little, quilting each block as I go without much of a plan. It is a lot of work and I am not sure just what exactly I will end up with, but I am having so much doing it and the results are already inspiring…

I have been wanting to get more into embroidering and I thought that this would be a great project.

Not only did I start, but Xavier also joined in and helped… So it has become something that we can share…

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These mitten shapes are all the sizes of their hands….

It is a work in progress but there are enough to put up now and I will be adding more once in a while as I make them…

I love what it adds to the space.