Historical doll clothes from Sense and Sensibility patterns (to die for!). I am so excited to finally be starting on these!
Crocheted collars. I love them. I am addicted to making them for big people, little people and dolls (even my kitties modeled some of these). I found the free pattern on Pinterest here.
I’ve been eating a lot of chocolate and haven’t slept well in about 4 nights, so my thoughts are moving almost too quick to capture today. I apologize ahead of time, I hope this post will be coherent!
Let’s talk about kids/baby clothes for a minute. I love to save my kids’ baby clothes/blankets etc. (For excellent inspiration for saving baby clothes, look at this blog post-it’s to die for! Yep, it’s in Finnish, just look at the pics 
. For me textiles are as good as (or better than) pictures. When I hold a baby outfit, I can feel and smell and think all the same things that I did when my children were wrapped in those darling fabrics. I have a fairly complex process of going through clothes when Mila outgrows them. 1. I pull out any clothes I can’t part with for a keep sake box 2. I wash/pack up the rest to pass on to our baby neice 3. When the clothes come back, I sort through them to decide what I want to cut up for quilts/crafting or re-purposing 4. I try to consign what I don’t want to keep for crafting 5. I donate what Lucy’s Consignment doesn’t want 6. I cut up the clothes for crafting purposes. Today, I finally made it to this round of step #6. Let me show you some pictures!
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I am going to cut these pieces into 5×5 squares. This is what I will make into a keep-sake quilt.
I changed my mind and couldn’t bear to cut this one up. It’s Italian travel/landmarks/scooter fabric. I love the colors, I love everything about this.
This is a brim from an 18-24 baby hat (Gymboree 2005 or 2006). I think it will be just darling as a detachable collar (almost to be used like a necklace) for Mila. I will probably shorten it and put some kind of pretty closure on it. I love the detailing/rickrack and fabric/colors. It’s perfect because it already has fabric stabilizer in it to make it a little stiff , it reverses to a co-ordinating fabric and it is basically the perfect shape already. *I think I am going to try and make it into a peter pan collar.* I am inspired to make some detachable collars for her after seeing The Well-digger’s Daughter on Netflix/watch it now (you must watch this one for the clothes, they are so lovely!). I also want to do a crocheted collar for her (like this).
This is the rest of that hat. Hmmmm…Im not sure what to do with it yet. It looks like a cozy for something? Or a pin cushion? Or what? Can’t decide, but it’s too pretty to throw away.
Here are leg elastics from the matching bloomers to this outfit. Look at the details! They made these with co-ordinating fabric trim. I love that. I love the love that goes into that. These type of details are missing from today’s clothes. Or maybe it’s just Mila’s size? Are clothes getting less cute/not as well made the older she gets? I think I am going to make these into hair elastics.
Gap has a new Peter Rabbit line. I would have bought all of this, if they had made it in her size:
Aren’t they just darling? Why didn’t Gap make the Peter Rabbit line in bigger sizes? Why do they assume we want to dress our three year olds like they are teenagers? I feel like emailing them! Are you seeing a color theme here? I think I am loving pink and yellow!
Guess what I ordered for myself from Boden?!?! The scallop trim shirt (in yellow) and the casual cable cardigan (in soft red/pink). I adore the fabric (both are 100% cotton) and details and colors of these two items. They look vintage inspried to me. I just hope they fit properly! I wanted the scallop trim shirt last year and was sorry when I didn’t get it. So I was super happy to see they brought it back this year.
I cut these felt Miffy heads to patch onto Mila’s dirty knees. It was a Pinterest idea of course. I am terribly obsessed with bunnies right now. Like this pillow and this wall decal and this wallpaper (I don’t think they sell this anymore) and all of this bunny stuff from Maileg. Oh and I ebayed this adorable bunny night light but what I really wanted was this expensive Miffy one. I also can’t get enough of fawns and foxes. Thank goodness for Pinterest. If I had my shop or my own children’s clothes line, it would be nothing but bunnies, fawns and foxes right now.
**Have you ever seen Olive’s Friend Pop childre’s clothes (I think I have posted about them before)? I think they are literally the cutest, vintage inspired clothes out there. Way out of my price range, but so inspirational.**
I love the colors, fabrics, details and design. If I had a shop, I would sell this. Look at the bonnet! **After a little research, I realized this company is no longer in business. Isn’t that a shame? I wish I could start a children’s clothing company with clothes like this but priced more like Gymboree!**
***PS***If you want to make some lovely vintage inspired baby clothes, you can find lovely patterns at Oliver and S.
A new tea towel embroidery I am working on.
Blankie for baby Aiden with leftover big blankie cotton yarn.
At Miles 7th grade band performance. Miles was all dressed up and looked so handsome…I didn’t get a pic 
I bought these sheets from TJMaxx the day before my surgery. They are so pretty. Not that soft though…even though they are cotton…they don’t compare to the Ralph Lauren sheets…those are so SOFT and they only get softer with age.
Awesome kitty pic. That is Squeezel hanging off and Totoro sitting next to him.
I couldn’t believe how blue and perfect the sky looked last week. It looks photo-shopped or something…doesn’t it?
So here is the border I made for my big granny stripe blankie. I am so happy to have this finished and move onto some new projects. Maybe I’ll show more pics of it later. But right now I am just excited to have it finished. We are not using it on the bed but on the couch. It is crazy HUGE. Remember when I started it here?
Here is the old pic before I added the border, but you get the idea. It is huge. I do love it. Next one I will make smaller though so it will be a good couch/throw size. Plus I think I get bored with big projects. I love the planning new projects phase and when you work on the same thing for a year and a half…you miss that phase…a lot. But I did it anyway!
OK, I still have to do the border….but this was the last stitch in main granny stripe part.
This is how I have always envisioned this blanket on the bed. And now that I have it on there, I might like it better for the couch! LOL! The boys are already using it as a giant couch blankie, even with the ends still hanging out!
PS It hangs over this far on both sides, it is huge!
This is what nap time looks like for me today. Hooorraaayyyy!!!!!!! The big blankie is back on track. I received my yarn yesterday. I LOVE receiving good things in the mail.
This is a new chocolate E introduced me to. Dark chocolate with sea salt. Yum. Tastes like eating cookie dough or something.
Nap time for Liam means Lego time today. And Harry Potter I on cd! FUN.
1. Ticker Tape quilted pillow like this:
**pic is from stitchedincolor.com** This is a new to me method and it looks so easy and fun. A LOT less structured (less math, less rules) than patchwork quilting. FUN! I LOVE the rainbow ticker tape quilt along she is doing right now!
2. Yoyo Rosette pillow from the story of kat blog
I know I have linked to this pillow before. I am obsessing about the pretty colors of the yoyos.
3. Poppy cushion by yvestown blog
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4. White bordered granny crochet pillow. Like yvestown
Here is one that uses Lucy’s pattern but with all white outer squares. I LOVE Lucy’s patterns! Even if you have never crocheted before, you could teach yourself using her tutorials. She offers lots of close-up pics at each stage so you can really see where to insert the hook (that was always challenging for me in the beginning, still is sometimes!).
Wrist warmers. Made of cotton, Lily Sugar and Cream. I use this yarn a lot. It is cheap but not acrylic so it makes me happy. I made these last year but never did the finishing work. He must like them because he kept them on to go outside and skateboard just now. What is it about finishing work that I always put it off???
**pic and pattern from The Yvestown Blog**
Why do I have such a hard time following patterns? I have been trying to get these hearts to look just right for like an hour…I am so tired. I just can’t seem to get them right. Maybe tomorrow? I hope!
**pic is from a blog called yarn round hook**
LOVE. I love all the color with white. I think when I do my pillow, this will be a good inspiration pic.
