Amelia!

Since my last blog I have had a beautiful baby girl and have begun quilting and sewing for her. While I was pregnant, I made a quilt of 4 by 4 inch squares and enjoyed picking out the fabric for each square.  Here is the finished product:

I really enjoyed doing it and learned a lot.  I finished the binding on this one (I still have to do the binding on my first one).

Also, I decided to learn how to sew so I can make little outfits for my daughter (and eventually maybe a thing or two for me).  My first project was a smocking dress.  I got the pattern for this dress from Purl in New York City.  I have always wanted to learn how to do smocking and this gave me step by step instructions on how to do it.  Here is the dress halfway done with the smocking:

The part I found the most challenging was doing the armholes with bias tape.  I found a good tutorial in the seamstress erin blog and it helped me a lot and made me realize that the armholes binding was very similar to quilt binding.

Here are two pics of the finished dress.

I am going to try to make a matching diaper cover and will show them on the model when it fits her in couple of months.  Next projects are a quilt for my nephew who is joining us in august and the diaper cover!