My Date Night Dress

I made a dress to wear on a date night with my husband.  We were celebrating our 14th wedding anniversary.  We had a great night.  First, we dropped the kids off at a local kids night out event.  Then, we went out to a steakhouse for dinner and enjoyed a leisurely meal without worrying that the baby might melt down at any moment ;)  After that, we had massages and strolled around the bookstore for coffee and magazines.  It was a lovely evening and I'm so glad we made the time for it.

Here's what I wore, remember, I'm in Texas so it's a balmy 90 degrees in the evenings here right now ;)





It's This pattern.  I was super impressed with Lekala.  I got my extremely reasonably priced patterns in no time.  When I had an issue downloading the sewing instructions, I received a speedy response and copies of the instructions were emailed to me.  I have a 34H bust so dresses involve crazy amounts of alterations to commercial patterns.  With Lekala, I just included the measurements they asked for and the dress fit perfectly with no alterations :)

Thanks for reading :)

Laura

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.

A Sweet New Seat

I went to the Country Living Fair with my mom during her visit. Lots of vendors were selling amazing reupholstered furniture which was way out of my price range. Especially with how furniture gets treated by the little ones. So, I picked up an 8$ thrift store chair and used some leftover paint. I used some pretty Waverly home dec vintage fabric from the fair to cover the cushion.
















I even picked up a fun vintage quilt at the fair. So bright and cozy ;)










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