Happy Birthday Baby!!

Okay well, she's certainly not a baby anymore but she'll always be MY baby :-)

Miss 2 is now offically Miss 3. She requested an Elmo cake....phew, easy shape!

We had a wonderful sunshine filled day with lots of phone calls from all our lovely family over the seas and finished the day with sparklers out on the front lawn. This was the girls first time ever seeing sparklers and they were terrified at first and then loved them after a while.....our brave monkeys :P

Here's our little squirt back in the day...

And here's her today, isn't she a hoot!

My little Sprout

A few weeks back Miss 2 was asked to be a model for a the most adorable new dress pattern by Toni from Make it Perfect......I must admit I had my doubts as to whether she would play nice with the photographer. After a somewhat rocky start she warmed up and here is the result.....(I'll be framing these for sure, what a little monkey she is!) You can see more pics on the Make it Perfect blog
Thanks again Toni for letting us join the fun!

 
 
 

Rainbow Imke v.2

 Here's the next one!! I realised while cutting this one out that I had done the sleeves wrong on the first one, lucky Miss 6 has skinny arms! I corrected it on my traced pattern and it was a much better fit :) I used the patterns suggestions for the colour blocking this time and did a rainbow applique on the front jazzed up with some Farbenmix ribbon. I choose the pointed hooded version this time, very pixie looking!

Miss 5 was rather excited about it and refused to put her jacket back and cover it up even though it's below zero outside!! (well, not that bad but jolly chilly...just checked and it's a balmy 5 degrees here!)

I can sing a rainbow!

I pulled out all my plain knits today to make some tops and spent the whole day just making this one.......a rainbow one! It's a IMKE top from the new Farbenmix book "Sewing Clothes Kids Love". I did the tapered sleeve and just the one coloured front and jazzed it up with some colour blocking and a machine embroidered heart on the front. I've done it distressed style so the ends of the knit should curl up in the wash....I hope! Anyway, Miss 6 loves it...she's rather into rainbow atm and is calling it her rainbow paddle pop top :) Now to make more for the other monkeys!

Ottobre 4/2004 "Dress Pants"

Miss 5 desperately needed some winter pants and I had some gorgeous velvet like cord that was stretchy to make them with. I searched for an elastic waisted pattern and came up with these. The originals were slightly cropped but seeing as I was making the next size up for her the length was fine. I added some rounded pockets to the back and also made the waist a casing rather than sewing the elastic in. All up a really quick and easy pattern and I love the flared leg look!