Little Miss's Blankets and Stuff

Sunday, March 22, 2009

The Dresses

I know this blog is named Blankets and Stuff. I started by thinking I was going to sell my blankets here or at least post about them here. Then I started my ETSY site. I sold a couple blankets but not a lot so I still need to sell blankets. I am going to keep trying to sell them because I think they are great. But since that time I have learned that I can sew clothes so I have decided to also make dresses. I have made a couple and I think that they are wonderful and I hope that you like them as well. So the stuff is going to be Dresses for now oh and maybe a painting or 2 from Jim.

So let me know what you think and if you interested I have created convenient (I hope) pay pal buttons in the sidebar. I have enough in each fabric to make 2-3 dresses so it will be a first come first serve basis. If you have any issues please email me using the link in the side bar. If for any reason I am sold out of something you really want let me know and I will see if I can get more.

All proceeds of these sales will be going to fund our adoptions from Burundi and China. So please help us bring our children home by buying a dress or a blanket or what ever else happens to pop up on this site.

Thank you.

Peasant Dress

Close up

Full length

Fabric Choices

$30.00 Sizes: 6 months - 4T
Order by using the paypal buttons on the side bar.
Please email me with any questions Larger sizes may be available email me for pricing and fabric availability.

shipping $5 for the first dress and $2.50 for each additional dress

If you are local let me know before you order and I can meet you to deliver

Knot/Apron Dress

Front

Back

New Choices! Unfortunately my local store has stopped carrying a couple of my fabric choices. So I have selected these new options and I know they will be adorable. As always email me with any questions.

Fabric Choices

$55.00
Sizes: 6 months - 4T

Order by using the paypal buttons on the side bar.

Please email me with any questions
Larger sizes may be available email me for pricing and fabric availability.

shipping $5 for the first dress and $2.50 for each additional dress
If you are local let me know before you order and I can meet you to deliver

The Party Dress.

Front

Back

Fabric options

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Something New Coming

So a few new things on the way! I have been working on some little girls dresses that I am really happy with. I hope to be able to sell a few actually I already have and I am really excited about that. I also have some local leads that I can't wait to explore too bad I have a day job too. I am also going to be sportin' a new look!! woo hoo! Diana has some big plans in the works and I am super excited about that so check back in a few weeks to see the brilliance. The name will stay the same, honestly because I started with blankets and someday I may change it but for now stuff covers dresses, right? I will post some more blankets here as well as I need to sell everything I can to bring home those babies, oh and get a referral but that will come in time right? OK am I asking too many questions for a blog that no one follow YET? So here is the first dress. OK this particular one is already sold but if you are interested in one like it email me or leave a comment, I will post more as I can and when the big grand opening happens I will post on my other blog since I am pretty sure no one reads her anyway.

Oh and Jim also has some goodies in store that fall under the stuff category! Did I mention that he is an Artistic Genius?!!

Monday, February 16, 2009

Look What I Can Do

Last week I got these great patterns from Portabella Pixie and I have been dying to try them out. So I decided to make this little party dress. What do you think? It went together pretty quick I was impressed and the instructions were so easy to follow. I have some other fabrics on the burner to try next!! Stay tuned or and please ignore the fact that I can't tie a pretty bow to save my life, there has got to be a youtube on that right?

Monday, January 26, 2009

Davids outfit

I had high hopes of making something for all the kids for Christmas but then time got away from me and I barely made Davids outfit for his birthday earlier this month. It was fun and other than some trouble with the snaps I think I did Ok. I need to practice more with a zipper foot. Here are the pictures

Front

Back

Detail (sideways sorry)

And the best, a little big but super cute right?

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Weekend Project

I have been dying to get in my sewing room and it is a complete disaster. We just don't have enough room to store our projects and and craft supplies. We do use them but we don't have the space. I would never post a picture of the room because it is so embarrassing, in fact I threatened my husband that if he took a picture of me in that room and blogged about it there would be sever consequences.

So I decided to forget the mess and do something anyway. I bought some small pieces of fabric a while back to try some things with and so I made a lovey sized rag quilt. One square is Minky i wanted to make sure that it would work Ok before using it in a larger version. It worked out great. I would not do a lot but a few squares are fine and the softness makes up for the limited ragginess.

Front

Back

close up of the Minky square

I got it done this morning and I did do a little cleaning up and organizing but did not get very far, maybe next time.

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Save the Hand Made Items

(cross post with waiting for little miss blog)

Like many of you I like to buy handmade items. I find them unique and more special than mass produced items that are everywhere. I even have a small Etsy shop where I sell flannel blankets and pillow cases that I have made. I had hoped to do a few more craft items this year to sell so that we can earn some money to help with the adoptions however, while surfing the net today I found that this might be in danger of become illegal on February 10th. This is when a new law goes into effect that states roughly that all items sold for children under 12 or 13 must be tested for lead and have proof of such a test. That means that I would have to have test each print of blanket that I make and there is no way that I could afford to do that so that makes my blankets illegal. All the hand made clippies that we love so much for our little girls will be out of the question. No more hand crocheted and knitted sweaters and baby blankets. Things like the the monster that Jim gave me for Christmas and decorations like the beautiful butterfly that Jim's sister gave Little Miss for Christmas last year will no longer be available unless they are proven to be lead free.

This will also apply to consignment and second hand thrift shops. That means no more buying children's items, toys, and clothes second hand. I know many parents out there that have to clothe their kids with second hand clothes. Who can afford to buy everything new? I know I won't be able too. I understand that it is important to keep our children safe but from what I have seen of law it goes too far.

Please take a look at these sites and decide for yourself. I am no expert on law and I hope that I have misinterpreted things. However if you come to the same conclusions that I have, please vote, sign the petitions, write your congressman or what ever else you can do to make this law more reasonable. I hate to think that we will not be able to buy and sell handmade and second hand items in the future.
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/economicimpactsofCPSIA/?e

http://coolmompicks.com/savehandmade/

http://www.change.org/ideas/view/save_handmade_toys_from_the_cpsia

http://sites.google.com/site/handmadetoyalliance/

Sunday, June 15, 2008

My Latest Creation

Here is the blanket that I have been working on for my secret pal. This is the first rag quilt that I have done. I really enjoyed it and although I am my worst critic I will do another one eventually. It takes alot of fabric so I will have to wait for flannel to go on sale again to make them affordable.
Here are the pictures from all stages. Sorry I missed the cutting stage.
Laying it all out.