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kids artwork album for mother’s day

One of the things I picked up at Ikea as a possible mother's day project was this album with a tree embossed on cover. I thought it was a photo album, and I guess it is, but it's just plain paper not plastic inserts for photos. I thought instead of photos I'd fill it with artwork for my mother in law for mother's day. The kids dotted flowers on the tree with the Martha Stewart paint and pencil erasers and then I painted over the tree trunk and branches because they were really hard to see. We pasted kids artwork in about half the book and left other half blank so we can mail her updates to fill it in.

some of Phoebe's work…

and some of Oscar's…

I want to make these for myself. Right now I have all kids artwork in bins. I think it'd be lovely to have them all bound up in books. Oh! and I finally framed one of Oscar's paintings from when he was little little that I just loved. I have it in his room. I'll snap a pic and put it on the ww facebook page.

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dress with a big bow

For my last kcwc project I went big and made a ….. yep, smocked dress. Okay, so I didn't tackle anything challenging this year. But I did make a top, a skirt, 3 pairs of shortie shorts and a dress. Not bad. I like sewing for girl in the Summer. Quick and easy! Fast and dirty. Serged and ready to go. 

The idea for this dress came from this one which I spied on Pinterest. I wanted to do a big bow. So I made one, tucked it into a pleat and then cheater smocked the rest. Here are some directions on how to do the smocking. Really easy and awesome. The part I always forget is to stretch or not stretch the elastic thread as you're winding bobbin. Not stretch! Then spritz with water or stream and it'll shrink up like magic.

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ballerina top for Phoebe

Still chugging along with kcwc! Have you seen all the cute stuff in the flickr pool?

I have one more dress planned. Just need to run out for elastic thread. Then I think that'll do it for me. I made this top yesterday while Phoebe was at school, without a pattern. I had just a fat quarter of that beautiful ballerina print and was happy to have a good use for it. And Phoebe is happy with it because it's pink.

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don’t blog my pants

Here are the little shorts I made for Phoebe. They're to go under skirts. I don't know what to call them. Do they have a name? I've been calling them shortie shorts. Phoebe was very pleased with them and didn't take them off for 2 days. Just realized they were on under her jeans. I told her to take them off and got the quote of the day, "don't blog my pants!"

They were super fast to make, edges are serged and top is zigzaged elastic. My only delay/ problem was I always cut the butt wrong and it took me three tries to get it right.

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kcwc spring 2012: seersucker skirt

Are you guys sewing for the kiddos this week? It's Meg's Spring 2012 KCWC and I'm trying to keep up! I've got a nutto week so I'm trying to sew as much as I can today and then stretch it out over the week on the blog. Sadly I spent all morning on one dang pair of shortie shorts. But I finally figured those out and I think I've got maybe a few tops left in me. Last night I made this seersucker skirt from Dana Made It. That was the one thing on my list that I definitely wanted to get done. Look how cute it turned out! And so easy. Dana's instructions were awesome. My skirt is same size she was making 4-5 and I just followed the measurements for the strips and then was able to follow the pictures. I like not having to read anything!