Dino-Eme-Saurus Hat

**Like my hats??  I'm giving one away... Click here.***

I originally made this hat for the first time about a year ago. 

See?  Here's Eme wearing his dino hat when he was tiny. 

I had a client (ok, my Mom) order one as a baby gift.  This is the result! (I'll be shipping it tomorrow Mom.)

This is one of my favorite styles.

Aren't the spikes fun?  They are each individually made and sewn onto the hat.  I love them.

Isn't it super fun?!

As an important side note, Jane, I still haven't heard from you!!  Please email me (or leave me a comment) to claim your hat!!!  If I haven't heard from you by midnight tomorrow (so by 12am Tuesday morning) I will be choosing a new winner. :(  I so hope I hear from you soon!!!

What I did today.

I got this hat sent off to it's lucky recipient:

I made this sweet, super fun bow tie for Li'l E:

And, I found this fan-tabulous embroidered fabric while thrifting (ok, really, it's a duvet cover, but I see fabric.):

It's calling out to become a summer skirt...or possibly a dress. :)

Have a Super Fabulous weekend! :)

The Completed Project!

Duh duh DUH!!!  It's done!  I can't WAIT to see little {tiny} E in his outfit and snuggled up in his blanket!


Now, since this is my audition piece for Crafting with the Stars and American Crafter, I am going to share each piece of the project.  I'll start with the last piece that I finished, his outfit.  I made this to be a "take-me-home" outfit, so it is teeny tiny.  I was dying when I finished it.  What is it about tiny things that just make you want to stare for hours?

The construction is a kimono style shirt and elastic waisted pants; both in interlock jersey.  I wanted the shirt to open in the front, so that it would be more comfortable for baby E.  (Cause I've never met a newborn that likes having shirts pulled on over their head.) The shirt ties on the inside side and has a sweet little sailboat button on the outside side.

I made a SUPER soft, CRAY warm blanket for him so that he won't freeze in our Utah weather.  I love the binding fabric (it's sari fabric)!!  It really "pops" next to the brown.  I think it MAKES the blanket.  It was a bit difficult to work with, but SOOO worth it.

Here are the sweet, sweet little {tiny} booties that will keep his little tootsies warm and will stay on, because of the (pom-pom) ties at his ankles.  These might be my favorite part of the gift... Well, maybe.  They are made of a silk/bamboo blend that is so. soft.  and it has a beautiful sheen that just seems to make the yarn almost have an inner glow.  I will definitely be using it again.

To round the gift out, I made little E two different hats, a monkey hat and the hat that inspired the gift, a sweet little turquoise hat with dark brown edging and a pom to match.  The monkey hat has my signature button under the chin strap and the turquoise hat is a beanie meant to replace the typical ugly hospital hat they put on babies right after they are born.  Here is the whole set!!

All in the box!

And here is the happy Mama!  Heidi is so cute, she had to 'put it on' him immediately.  haha!  I can't wait to see it on him for real.  (Can you believe she's due in 5 weeks?!  She is SO tiny.  I was a bus by 35 weeks, just sayin.)

This is a trick I use All. The. Time.  I don't love to wrap.  In fact, I kind of dislike it.  So, this is my solution:

Pretty huh?  It's a pre-decorated box!  It's a GREAT presentation and, it's a keepsake box that they can use to keep the special little things they will collect at Little E's birth and beyond.

So there you have it!  A sweet special gift for a sweet special baby.  Can't wait to me you Little E!!!

**All of the pieces in this project are my own patterns, except for the bottoms of the booties, (which I got here) but I completely reworked the top portion on the booties to fit the vision I had in my head.**

I'll be linking this project up to the linky parties on the right. :)

Just a Sneaky Peeky...

To let you know that I'm still busy at work!

PLEASE don't look too closely at the binding... It's my first time and, well, I'm kinda a fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants kinda gal, which means that I should have looked up a tutorial, or asked someone about it,  or you know,  something, but totally didn't.  'Cause apparently, I like to make my own mistakes; and I'm telling you, there are mistakes aplenty.   Plus I didn't exactly choose the easiest of fabrics to attempt my first binding.   'Cause why do anything the easy way? 

Luckily, baby E won't care... and hopefully, his mama will turn a blind eye to the errors. ;)  But the colors are pretty and it's SUPER warm and SOOO soft, so I think that makes up for it... Right??!

The gift is almost complete!  Just gotta finish up the outfit. :)  I'll debut the whole thing tomorrow... (Hopefully.)

(I'll be linking this blanket up to the fab linky parties on the right.)

Piece by Little {Tiny!} Piece

Please raise your hand if you love the tininess of newborn things.  I know I do!! 

I love making them.

I love looking at them.

I love taking pictures of them.

Ok.  Maybe I love taking pictures of them a little too much.

Or maybe a lot too much.  But at least you like little {tiny!} newborn things too right?  So, you are perfectly happy to look at an obscene amount of pictures of baby booties. ;) 

As I was saying though, this gift is coming together piece by little {tiny!} piece and I am LOVING it.

I used the Simply Cute Baby Booties pattern that are free at Mon Petit Violon to make the bottoms of the booties, but then I changed/revised the top portion to fit the vision in my head. 

I went to Joann's yesterday to (try) and get some fabric to match the beautiful color of the yarn that I'm working with.   Wouldn't you know that the ONLY fabric in the entire store that really matched was dupioni silk.  Yeah.  ((sigh))  The last time I checked silk was *not* the most appropriate of fabric choices for babies. ((double sigh))  So, I did the best I could and this is what I came up with:

As you can see the blues are a little lighter then the yarn.  But, I think they will work together when all is said and done.  I can hardly wait to get working on the outfit and blanket!  (Maybe tonight after Eme is down for the night...but then again, maybe not...I'm kinda excited to see Iron Chef and The Worst Cook in America.  I heart Food Network.  So, it might not be til tomorrow's morning nap that I get started.  We'll see. :) )

Oh so sweet and {tiny}!  I can't believe that *my* baby will be one a week from today. (sob)

I'm linking these lovely booties to the parties listed on my side bar. :)

Shh!! A Custom Hat and Baby Gift Plan

I have a good Friend that has ordered 2 custom hats for her little miracle baby due in February. I just had to show you guys how PRETTY this yarn is! This hat is not quite finished; it is getting a big pom on top. :)

The yarn is a silk/bamboo blend and is so. soft.  My friend didn't want the typical, stocking net hat they normally put on newborns right after they are born.  So, she asked me to make a nice soft one and this is the result.  She has also asked for a monkey hat to fend off the CRAZY cold weather here.  (My animal hats are SUPER warm.) 

I am LOVING the colors and I hope she does too.  Really these pictures hardly to the yarn justice.  Seriously.  Now, Heidi, if you are reading this, STOP NOW.  If you keep going, you are going to spoil your surprise for next week. 

This hat has inspired me.  I plan to make her a SUPER soft blanket out of this fabric (and no, this is not a mistake, I know I showed you this pic yesterday, but I got more of the brown snuggly fabric and am making the main part of the blanket with it.  Just ignore the star fabric and buttons.)

I am going to get some silky fabric to match the turquoise/sapphire of the hat to edge it with.  Then I'm going to make a take-me-home outfit to match.  I CAN. NOT. WAIT. to show you guys the finished project!  It's gonna be SO pretty.  Of course, she is having a boy though, so I guess I should call the outfit handsome. ;) 

I'm linking this project up to the fabulous linky parties listed on my side bar! :)