Obsessed

I've been a little obsessed with this fabric combo lately. Denim chambray (Joann's) and red polka dots. (Dottie by Moda).

Last week I made another Noodlehead fabric basket for my sister in law and new nephew (who arrived on earth today!!).

I loved how it turned out. They are so fun to make. And this one didn't take too long to make either. Maybe 3-4ish hours over the course of the week? Mostly cutting and ironing, it seems.

The combo turned out so great I even decided to use it again this weekend for a little 1st birthday dress for our friends daughter.

It's based off of the Made by Rae geranium pattern. I just used the newborn pattern and self-drafted a 12 month sized based off of one of Mia's dresses. Once 20-month Mia outgrows her bazillion 12-18month old dresses, I'll probably buy the geranium pattern since I'd like to have the different sizes and sleeve options. How do you do a sleeve in a lined bodice?!? Agh?! Although it is fun making my own patterns--for free!

Anyways...I screwed up the button in the back pretty bad on this one. So someone else needs to have a baby girl so I can redeem myself a bit. Or Mia can just finally move on to a 2T already. She has zero dresses in 2T...hmmmm. Just realized that.

So moving on....I ended up jealous that I gifted away all the cute chambray and polka dots. So sometime during my 3am pregnancy insomnia this week, I decided I needed to make a little zipper pouch using the same fabrics. Thank gosh for Pinterest! I'm not sure what else I would do between the hours of 2am and 4am (oh and PS, 4am is a terrible time to finally fall back asleep when you wake up around 5:20am. Makes for a terribly groggy morning). Anyways...sorry to all my Pinterest friends for the millions of sewing related pins! Oops!

So here's that little zippered bag. I need to buy more cute zippers and make more.

I should probably take the time to take better pictures of the things I make. And trim all my stray threads, too.

Oh well.

I used a few different tutorials to briefly figure out the zipper. It's easy. Every sewing blogger on the planet seems to have a zippered pouch tutorial. So thank you for that!

I quickly put this pouch to good use too, holding little things I might need at the hospital when baby Henry arrives. Nursing pads, Chapstick, hair ties, bobby pins. That sort of stuff.

Now...to make a hospital bag. Guys. I'm getting a little carried away. I've got this duffle that I want to make and a shopping cart full of fabric on fabric.com. Luckily, the little dude will probably arrive before I spend all his budgeted baby fund money on fabric...

Any ideas on how to fund my sewing addiction?!

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