Machine-shirred Yellow Toddler Dress

Very simple yellow cotton print dress, made for, and modelled by, Lily  The machine-shirred bodice and straps will grow with her. 

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2014's Nearly Over

Good grief, I haven't posted for a year and a half! Since that time, there have been a couple of important events in the Wood family:

• We have a new granddaughter, Lily, born at the end of July - a sister for 3-year-old, Noah. 
• We've moved house to a more rural location, and have been busy getting it 'up to spec' - there's still a way to go

Along with making curtains for just about every window in our new home (an ongoing project), I've not been too idle on the crafting front.  Here are a few photos of the things I've been doing recently:

A simple skirt for Lily (when she gets a bit older)

I also made her a really pretty yellow floral dress, using Made by Rae's free Geranium dress pattern, but unfortunately didn't manage to get any photographs of her wearing it and she's outgrown it now.

A seat for Noah, made out of the remnants of some black and white curtain material I purchased from Ikea some years ago and stuffed with bean bag beads.  He loves it!

A knitted throw to keep off that Ontario winter chill now we are living out in the country (and if the weather is anything like last winter, I'll need it!)

And to use up the leftover wool, I made myself this infinity scarf using a circular needle:

I'm presently finishing off a quilt that I started making, oh, about the same time as my last blog post, ie 1.5 years ago and which has been waiting patiently for me since then.  I think the reason it's taken me so long to finish it, is that it is a direct copy from the pattern in a book - same colours and all - and it didn't feel right to so completely copy someone else's quilt.  Anyway, since we've moved, it will go beautifully in my spare bedroom so I'm finishing it off at last.  To make it a little bit my own, I've quilted just outside the 'ditch' along each horizontal stripe, and I also decided to use a faced edge instead of the usual bound edge. 

 

Due to increasing senility, I needed somewhere to keep my camera, because I kept losing it, so I made this.  I used the tutorial from Sew-Mad's blogspot here http://sew-mad.blogspot.com/2008/02/triple-c.html.  I must have added a little too much 'wiggle' room and it has turned out a little too big so I will need to make another, slightly smaller, one, but (for now) I am happy with it.

(That "increasing senility" I was talking about above - well, I was searching high and low for my camera to take a photograph of this camera case.  Can you guess where it was?  Enough said.)