Honestly, I haven't been completely idle

So much for my good intentions about another post is less than a week.

I will make it up to you by posting lots of pictures (keep in mind my standard of lots of pictures may be different than yours)

Lets start off with some knitting.

Practicing a diamond stitch on a dish cloth.

I've been trying to see if I can knit a pair of baby legs. I've got a model coming over this weekend so we'll see if I'm anywhere near close to the right sizing. I really like this sock yarn. It's uber cute. I decided to just knit these straight across and them seam them as opposed to knitting them in the round. We'll see whether I regret that decision soon enough.

This skirt I made yesterday, it's an elastic waist A line skirt. I followed the directions in the book Sew What Skirts to make this simple but cute skirt. I picked up a meter of this fabric almost two months ago. If I had known what length of skirt I really wanted to make I should have picked up one and a half meters. Since I was a little shy on fabric I decided to finish the hem with bias binding instead of heming the bottom up another inch. The hem sits just above my knees so it's not by any means way to short, I would just prefer another inch or so.

I think it looks fairly cute on, but I don't have any full length mirrors in my house so I can't be sure. I will have to post a picture at some point when I can have someone take one of me in the skirt.

A peek of something I'm making for my SIL's birthday.

And last but certainly not least an adorable picture of Natalie in the dress I made her. (Thanks Jen for letting me post this )

See I have been busy! (kinda, alittle bit, sorta)

Day Seven of Eleven

This is the seventh day of eleven I have off from work. And what do I have to show for all this time off?

Well I would be lying if I said I had a whole bunch of projects to show for my time off. But I do have freshly painted window frames on the outside of my house. So I have been up and down ladders and hanging out windows, and it's basically all done except for some scraping of paint off windows. I haven't done it all alone, Mom was here to give me a hand and of course I really appreciate it.

When we haven't been painting Mom and I were both working on some knitting. So we did get a little crafting time in.

As I promised in the last post here is another tea towel creation. This time a tote for my mother-in-law as part of her Mother's Day present. She hasn't got it yet, we're celebrating with her this weekend with a nice dinner out.

This one isn't lined at all but I did use french seams so it is still a nicely finished product.

The other tea towel bag from two posts ago became a part of my Mom's Mother's Day gift. She's already using it to carry around her knittitng.

Hopefully I will be back in less than a week with something new to show.

Check it Out

Check out this blog for all her great giveaways for Mother's day.
It's quite a line up.

I will be back soon with another tea towel creation.

A tisket, a tasket

A yellow polka dot basket... well purse/basket type thing.

At the grocery store last week I picked up some cute spring tea towels that were on sale.

The pair of towels was on for $1.24. I didn't think they would make very good tea towels because they don't seem very absorbent but they could make very cute other things. So I got two of the yellow set and one of the green set.

When I got home I decided I really liked them and I would look to pick up a couple more when I went back to the store. Two days later, I return and they have either all sold out or they have taken them off the shelf. Oh well...

I used a set of the yellow ones to make a pursey-baskety thing. I think I've got an idea where this might end up, but I can't let too much out of the bag. I picked up the handles at Fabricland, I like them but they are a little expensive for my liking. So next time I think I will just do a fabric handle.

The inside is lined with the plaid fabric, and this particular bag is completely reversible. I think it turned out pretty cute.

One Cute Girl

I spent the past few days at my sister's place. It was great, Natalie is such a sweet girl.

I made her a cute little dress using a tutorial and pattern from Amy here. I didn't do the pintucks though because I didn't have a pintuck foot.

I'm hoping Natalie will grow into this dress for summer. It looks like it's about a 3 month size.

Isn't she precious?

Needs Some Work

My chocolate coating skills that is... need some work.

I attempted the cupcakes from the previous post and this is how they turned out.

Here's a few of them, some completely covered and some still needing tops.

This one's bottom wasn't flat enough, so he wouldn't stand up.

Some yellow tops and some pink tops.

The night I made them I tried one and it was so sweet it just about put me out of comission for the night. (I love sweet things so this is not an easy thing to do) But the next day they tasted better, not as sweet. Pretty good actually, the hubby didn't mind them either. He just thought they looked awful. (Thanks hun)

Finally a sneak peak of something I've made for Natalie, my new niece. I'll post more pictures later, once she recieves the gift.

Good Intentions

I just had to post about something I'm hoping to make for Easter Supper on Saturday at my mother in laws.

I have all the supplies and the cake made to make these amazing looking treats from Bakerella.
I say amazing looking because I haven't made them yet so I don't know what they will taste like.

I would like to make these ones (scroll through the whole post, there are lots of very cute ones at the bottom), but since this is my first try I guess I should start easy, and Bakerella says the cupcakes are easier. The chocolate does not have to be as smooth on the cupcakes. But if I keep practicing maybe I'll get to the eggs and chickens and sheep.

I also have three pies to make but I made the dough this morning so I just need to cook two of the crusts tonight and slice and peel apples for the third pie tomorrow and bake it. Oh and I guess I should mop my floors. Well maybe I'll mop.. we'll see if I get around to it.