All The Way From Malaysia and Other News

Some more prizes from Sew Mama Sew's Giveaway Day arrived.  They came all the way from Malaysia, courtesy of  Whimsy Loft

                                            I won an adorable snap pouch :)

                                            Made from the cutest little animal fabric

                                            And lined in the sweetest flowers

                                           There was some really cool fabric tape in the package

                                            And some adorable stickers, which the kids stole right away

                                          My son was making the same face as his sticker

                                            My two year old put her favorite sticker on her head

                                            And, even their daddy got in on the action ;)

We're having a great Father's Day weekend so far.  We've been to the pool:

                                           and had a blast :)

And Gabi and I went to Remnants Fiber Culture here in Austin for a Post Quilt Market Soiree, which was so fab :)

                          The lovely Jessica Sloan, owner of Remnants raffling prizes from Market

                         Jessica is one of the sweetest people I know and truly a good friend of mine :)

             Future fabric lover who was treated to a fat quarter by a new friend we met at the party

               My most wanted prize was a Liberty tote, I'm turning into a Liberty groupie lately.  So happy
               to have won one :)

                                                Gabi and I making Silly Faces :)

The kids made some adorable framed cards for their Daddy, can't wait till he wakes up and opens them :)

Camden's "Lean Like a Cholo" Quilt

Camden, my oldest boy, is not a quilt lover.  He loves fabric, patterns, building things, and playing with my design wall.  When it comes to favorite blankets though, he always picks cheap fleece softies instead of the quilts I make him.  For example, the first quilt I made him was an eye spy quilt.  He would pretend to like it then hide it in his closet after I left from putting him to bed.  I'd find it balled up in a corner the next morning.  Finally, he admitted it scared him with the Halloween Monster Eyes square on it.  So, he went back to fleece again.  Then, I decided, since he didn't like sleeping with quilts, I'd make him a playmat quilt.  So, I quilted him a little train tracks panel for him to ride his trains on.  It too got ignored, he preferred building with tracks.  Next, we had an ugly fabric challenge at the Austin Modern Quilt Guild and I made a little sock monkey doll quilt.  Camden desperately wanted it and claimed it as his own.  He changed his mind and gave it back to me a few months later.   I was ready to throw in the towel on making quilts for him.  He just never seemed happy with them.  But, on a trip to Remnants, he found a new favorite fabric and picked out a bundle begging me to make it into a quilt for him.....and I can't tell him no, so.....

Camden:

The eye spy quilt:



The train tracks:

I don't have a picture of the whole quilt, but you get the idea I'm sure. 

The monkey quilt:

Just a quick iphone snap of this one :)

And finally, the quilt he designed himself....

                                  You can see the backing in this picture.  It's a cotton bed cover from Urban Outfitters

Lots of latin flavor like the hearts and crosses.  The fabrics are Folklorico from Alexander Henry with some
tribals from Africa and other prints from my stash thrown in.  The bundle is from Remnants Fiber Culture here in Austin.

The fabric in the upper left with the woven Aztec feel to it is the one that started him falling in love with this bundle.

I'm happy to report that he is sleeping under this quilt every night.  In a strange turn of events, his love of this quilt made him take a second look at that eye spy quilt and decide it was pretty cool too.  Now he plays eye spy before bed with me every night using that quilt and sleeps under a stack of blankets.  He sleeps with a favorite fleece blanket, his eye spy quilt and his new quilt each and every night :)

Ellie's Polkadot Quilt

Ellie, who is turning three this July, informed me that she needed a big girl quilt.  She has a lovely quilt, which looks like this:







It's a simple friendship star alternated with plain blocks.  It has little fussy cut babies in the centers of the stars.  She calls it her babies quilt and she can't stand to sleep without it.

Lately though, she's been telling people she is 6 years old.  I guess she thinks she is the same as her big sister.

Obviously though...she is not six...

But she happily chose a bundle of fat quarters from Jessica's shop Remnants in Austin.  And a Rose Card Pattern to match.  And now...she has a new big girl quilt.  She still sleeps with her babies quilt too, but she is quite proud of her big girl quilt.  Even though only one of the fabrics is dotted, she calls it "the polkadot quilt"

My new favorite solid is by Connecting Threads.  It's their Mirage blender in Silver Lining.  But I like to use the back side of that particular fabric.  It has a lovely suiting or linen looking weave to it and looks great in every project I use it in :)

The back has a hand embroidered dish towel pieced into it.  It's super sweet with two little kitties under the moonlight.

I screen printed the tag for this one and added some of the fabric from the front and a bit of rick rack to finish it off.

Here is the full back.

Mama's Got a Brand New Bag

I needed a new diaper bag.  I was having a hard time deciding on a pattern though, until Heather, of Fiberosity came for a visit and brought her Anna Maria Horner Multi Tasker Tote with her.  I knew right away that it was the perfect tote to shlep my kids' stuff around in.  The next step was fabric.  I had just been into Remnants the other day and knew that Jessica had just gotten in Valori Wells' Karavan line of fabrics.  Although the white fabric with rainbow elephants enticed me the most, I went with the pink elephants for the main portion of the bag.  I think the pink will show less dirt than snow white will over time ;)

The bag came together super cute:

I decided to make a few little accessories to match

I'm super pleased with it and have been toting it all over town!

Here is a peek at a current work in progress:

it's a circle of geese block by piece by number in 

Kate Spain's Good Fortune line.

And some silliness from this morning...