First Finish for 2014 & Fabric Fast Update

I made up this taggie blanket for a friend who is having her first girl in a few months.  She is emphasizing the princess theme and wouldn't you know it, I had this piece of princess fabric sitting right there.  Actually, all three of the fabrics in this were sitting together from a fat quarter stash builder set I'd purchased (don't worry, it was before I started my fabric fast).  

I have been collecting pretty ribbons for some time now and was thrilled to find a use for them.  I think I'll be making several more of these little taggie blankets.  Not only were they a breeze to whip up but they use a lot of my ribbon! 

The back is a soft pink minky.  I've had a bolt of this sitting around for a long time - like a few years - so I was pleased to use some more of that up.  I hope my friend loves it!

This little princess in glasses is my favorite! She's so adorable!

Ronan

We welcomed little Ronan Alexander Joyce into our world on July 2, 2013 at 8:42 am.  He is so very loved by us all.  He has hardly spent any time not being cuddled, loved or held by someone.  

Just a few hours after birth.  He is absolutely perfect.

Just like the two that came before him, I am completely in love with him.  I could just stare at him, hold him and love on him forever.  

Tired mama and baby.  

The four most important people in the world to me.  Trying not to be emotional, but this picture gets me crying every time.  There is so much love and happiness in this one little snapshot.

Well, we are finally home from the hospital and settling back into life.  There won't be much sewing happening around here for awhile.  Recovering from a second c-sec is a lot harder than I thought it would be.  Besides, my machine is in the shop getting fixed right now.  Figured this would be the perfect time for a tune-up since I will be otherwise occupied for a little while.

Hope everyone is having a lovely weekend.  We plan on hanging around home and taking it real easy this weekend.

A Sweater for Baby

Just a quick post this morning to show off the sweater I just finished for the new little guy.  It's a 6-12 month sweater so it should fit him well for the cold, rainy fall/winter season here.  This was the first time I've used this pattern and really enjoyed it.  I'll have to update later with the pattern info as I can't seem to find it right now, but it is available on ravelry and I believe was a free pattern.

Please forgive the poor quality of the photo.  It was a rainy and cloudy day so I couldn't get a nice outdoor picture of it today and I really wanted to show it off.

Enjoy your day!

Baby Pillow

Morning everyone! I hope you've all had a wonderful week and plans for a relaxing weekend.  I have a few more baby quilts that need to be quilted and bound.  Hopefully I'll get them all quilted today and can bind tomorrow. Even though the weather has been wonderful here, I have no big plans for outside adventures this weekend.  After spending the past few days outside with my boys, I ended up getting quite a burn yesterday.  A little amazing really.  It's only April and I've been sunburned already!

Even though we've been outside a lot the past week, I still managed to finish up this sweet little pillow cover for the baby's room.  I love it!  I used only scraps leftover from the quilt I showed in my previous post.

I forgot to get a picture of the back so I'll post that later this weekend.  It's a wonderfully soft blue flannel with white pin dots.  I have one more pillow cover quilted.  Just need to put the envelope backing on and I'll have some pictures of that to show you later too.

Have a great weekend everyone!

New Sale and an Apology

The new sale code for the shop is BIG30.  Everything - even my handmade goods - are 30% off until this summer or until I run out of fabric!  I have to make room for the new baby (who's kicking away day and night by the way).  Please just enter the code before completing checkout to receive your discount.

I must apologize that it's been so long since I've been on here.  The boys and I have all been sick for almost 5 weeks now and I'm quite honestly exhausted.  I've been trying to sew and create but between all the sickies, training our new dog, taking 2 weekend trips (while sick!) and trying to keep up with laundry and dishes ... well, it's a miracle I've been able to keep up on all that frankly.  I have recently made it to my sewing machine though and started sewing a little bit, so I will have pictures to share hopefully in a few days.  I've got such a long list of things to make for this new little guy that I've got to make some time for sewing!