Elle Design Cottage

Rawhide

My little sister had her third baby earlier this month, another cute little girl, and she had asked me to make her a blanket.  She'd seen a similar one someone else had and loved it so I attempted to recreate.  I'm not sure how good of a job I did with this one, but I did learn some things making this blanket.

 

Finished size is 48 inches square so she should be able to use it for her for quite a while.  The top is like a minky print and the back is flannel lined satin with a satin ruffle edge. 

What I learned:  I do not like sewing satin!  It is super slippery and required me to pin dang near every half inch.  I'm also pretty sure I took like the hardest approach ever to making a satin ruffle edge, but that's just how I roll.  I think it turned out really cute when it was done, but I sure hope she likes it because I don't think I'm even willing to attempt another blanket like this ever again.  Or until I forget how much of a pain in the a#* it was to sew.  Either or. 

90+ degrees...HELLLOOO SUMMER!

The boys have been begging for dang near a month to break out the swimming pool and slip n' slide.  And since yesterday was 90+ degrees, we figured it was time.  They had so much fun and probably would have stayed out until dark if I would have let them. 

 

 

My little olympic divers.  Good thing they realized it wasn't very deep!

 

Nice farmer tan dude!

 

Such a cheeser!

 

Good thing they like their pool.  I have a feeling they will be spending a lot of hours in it this summer while I work on growing their little sisters!  Summer, here we come!

Honey Bun Baby Blanky

Here's the second quilt top I mananged to finish for my girls.  This one was another Moda Bake Shop recipe using 1 honey bun.  For this one I used the Patissere line and love the colors! 

 

 

I got the backs pieced too so they are off to be machine quilted!  I'm so excited to see them finished!

For my baby girls

I'm finally finding some time to start making the laundry list of things I want to make for my baby girls coming in August.  This is the first quilt top I've finished.

 

A close up:

 

I used this tutorial from Moda Bake Shop (I love this blog) and Lila Tuller's Woodland Bloom charm pack for the pinwheels.  I really like how this turned out and can already imagine snuggling my sweet little babies in this.  I still need to have it quilted.  Any suggestions?  All I ever do is stipple. 

Mother's Day

What I made for my Mom this year.  She gets harder and harder to get for every year!

 

Each charm is stamped with the name of one of her grandchildren...three more on the way this year Mom!