More Shameless Self Promotion

So, I've been learning to sew for the last, um, 6 or so months. I started pretty small--baby leg warmers, an apron, stuff like that. Well, about a month or so ago, I was looking at some fabric online and ran across this yoga monkey fabric and absolutely had to buy it for Andi's daughter Sophia (andi owns a yoga studio). I got it in my head that I would make something for Sophia's birthday which was the 14th so I got a "sew easy" pattern and asked Nanny to teach me to read it. HA. HA. IT WAS SO HARD. lol. I might have bit off more than I could chew but Nanny is an awesome teacher so I not only finished it, but I am pretty impressed with myself.

Now--gaze upon my first real sewing project, the glorious result of 4 days of long hours of staring at an incomprehensible (sew easy, my foot) pattern, sewing, doing it wrong, picking it apart, sewing again, having to make up a section because the pattern's version looked stupid, learning to make button loops off the internet, and so on. Ta da!






Yay! I am hoping to get a photo of Sophia in the outfit soon...Andi just told me that Sophia wore the outfit to her birthday party and I AM SO EXCITED about that!

Here's my second brag...I made Autumn a dress! I took a smocking class at a shop called Lace Cottage back in May. After practicing a little, I got started on a little bishop dress. Here it is after I finished smocking it and Nanny started showing me how to assemble it:


And here it is on Autumn today! It's a little big but that's definitely better than a little small, right?


Next I am going to work on something a little less traditional for her...a smocked dress made from electric blue houndstooth...it is super soft!

15 months old!

Not much exciting--just Autumn's pre-bedtime, post bath roam.

More Adventures of Autumn

Autumn and I went to Costco a couple of weeks ago (where she spent the entire trip saying "ay-o!" to everyone and looking baffled if the person ignored her). Mike really likes the churros there so I got him one to have with his lunch. When we got home, I put the churro on the hall table so I could bring the groceries the rest of the way into the kitchen. I heard Autumn rustling around which is no big deal. She likes boxes and there wasn't anything she could damage or could damage her so whatever. She's quiet. Well. This is what I found when I went for the next box:


As I think everyone knows, I'm training in kali again. A friend of ours named Michelle takes care of Autumn until Mike gets home and then it is pretty much papa-monkey time until I get home around 7:30 twice a week. One Thursday I came home to this funny sight:


What is with this kid and boxes?


This is my sewing box. She likes to sit on it. And push it around. And play with the latches.


After crawling all over it, Autumn pushed the sewing box over to where her crayons and paper were. She set herself up like this all on her own. Stop growing up, baby girl!