Friday's Rag Quilt!

I can happily say that this week I finished a project!  In prior posts I have posted about the quilts I am making for my nephew and niece.  My nephews' quilt is now finished and ready for him to pick up!

He is attending college at BYU this fall as a new freshman, so what could be better than a navy blue quilt?  I even was able to add a few BYU squares. 

Truly I don't count this as quilting as it was a quilt as you go quilt.  Each block has an X sewn through it before the blocks are put together.  I posted the easy directions for this rag quilt a few weeks ago.

My favorite part of rag quilts is the back, they are so smooth to cuddle up in.  The back of this quilt does have a pattern, but I kept it very easy.  

Check out other Friday finishing with CrazyMomQuilting!  And Needle and Thread Thursday

I just wanted to show you all this beautiful quilt made by Cynthia, it has beautiful colors to match the beautiful pattern. 

Crayon: Part 1

My dear daughter #2 decided that since I am making a Belle dress for her older sister, I needed to make her a costume also.  Thankfully her and her bestie decided that thy wanted to be crayons this year.  

After searching the computer, we decided on a duck tape costume.

We decided that because you tightly wrap the duck tape around your body to make the dress, we would wrap the older sister.  This way it wouldn't be so tight of a costume.  

First you wrap your body in a prewrap, we purchased this at Claire's boutique.

After the pre wrap, I wrapped one strip of duck tape around the top, one strip around the bottom and four strips vertically connecting the horizontal strips.

All that's left is spinning the duck tape around and around until their body is fully wrapped.

I then, carefully, cut the dress off of my daughter.  After doing this I reinforced all 4 sides with duck tape folded over them.

As you can see it doesn't lay flat with the normal curves of a body.  

Next I will:

1. Put Velcro all along the back, closing the back of the dress

2. Create the shoulders

3. Decorate the crayon with black duck tape

WIP Wednesday

I'm continuing to work on the quilts I am making for my niece and nephew.  They should have been finished two weeks ago but they are not quite there yet. 

 My nephews quilt:

As you can see it almost finished just a few more cuts.

My nieces quilt still needs three borders added around the main quilt as well as all the quilting/binding:

Hopefully this Friday his quilt will be finished and next Friday I can complete hers!

I linked it up with WIP wednesday

Belle

Hailey wants to be Belle this year for Halloween.  While at Swiss days craft fair, we saw some beautiful Belle dresses but they were each around $150.  We're not going there for an 11 year olds dress.  Yet, she can't wear a kids dress, they're all to small. Even the Disney stores are to small.  So,.....mom to the rescue, I guess I'll be making the dress this year.

I started the process by looking at dresses and patterns.  I really didn't like the patterns at Joann's, just not Hailey enough.  We did purchase all the fabric, I think we'll be able to make it for about $55.  I did opt out of the cheaper costume satin, it's just to thin.  It was only a 1/3 of the price, but not worth the cheapness.

So this is the dress we are using as a guide

And here is another idea

I'll make sure to post what's happening with this dress soon!