a thing of beauty is a joy forever

Myfriend had a baby shower this week and I wanted to make something special for her.

She has always loved Willy Wonka and so I picked up a new copy of the book for her to read to the baby

I love the illustrations by Quentin Blake and was inspired by them.

I embroidered Willy Wonka, the children, and an Oompa Loompa onto white cotton and made a simple 16 patch quilt with a buttery yellow and a fun purple swirl. The back is a soft green flannel and I quilted it myself by simply stiching around the squares with a zig zag stitch.

It was so much fun to make and so much fun to give!

Retro Rocket Rascals

I love this Michael Miller Retro Rocket Rascals and it goes so well with the retro space theme that I have chosen for Tony's bedroom.

I found the chair in a junk shop and fixed it up. I painted it bright red and gave the seat some padding and covered it in the rocket fabric.

I made the roll up window shade using the rocket fabric and backed it in red.

I've been working on the quilt on and off through the school year and finally finished it over spring break.

Lois my favorite quilter had a stars and moon pattern to quilt it with and I love the results!

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We celebrated Tony's 4th birthday with a little Star Wars celebration.

I made his traditional birthday shirt and this year I made some matching pants.

My brother made him the R2D2 cutout.

I tried my hand at cake decorating too with a R2D2 head.

I made the invites using a stamp that I carved.

Tony recieved tons of new Star Wars gear which he is super excited about!

C3PO

Tony has caught the Star Wars bug after a trip to the Museum of Science and Industry's Star Wars exhibit.

He loves R2D2 and C3PO (3PO as he calls him) and so I wanted to make him a shirt with the 2 of them.

I used an image from an antique collector's book that my friend Megan gave me and copied it

onto iron on transfer sheets for dark fabric.

This shirt is in heavy rotation and he has been getting lots of compliments to which he replies, "My mommy made this!)

Affirmative

Wee Wonderfuls Spaceboy & Robot pattern.

I made this for my little man using fabric I had in my stash, some vintage and some new.

a quilt for my Mom

I made my Mother a small lap quilt for Christmas this year.

After her father passed away we had his bathrobe hanging in the closet for several years. 

I used the flannel bathrobe and some red, yellow and white flannel.

I used a sketch that she had made of him in the 80s as a pattern and emroidered it in red thread.

It has been getting used alot so you'll have to excuse the wrinkles!

Superbad

My favorite scene in Superbad is the opening credits where the silhouettes dance.

As soon as I saw it I wanted to make freezer paper stencils silhouettes.

I traced it right off the screen and then blew the image up with the copy machine.

I made and gave four of these sweatshirts for Christmas and they were well recieved!