Posts Tagged ‘baby’

A couple of weeks ago, I got an order for making two bright pettiskirts for two baby twin girls… I could pick the colours and went for fushia and orange. Not wanting to make the skirts exactly identical, I deceded on a ‘positive/negative’ colour combo :

Here I sketched the ‘Fushia on Marygold’ so the other skirt would be the opposite of that one, in other words: orange waist band, fushia bow,orange tier and fushia ruffles… both skirts made to measure. So here’s the result when opening the gift box (which was a nappy box I decorated using princess wrapping paper and gorgeous ribbon lol)

From sketch to reality…hanging on my ‘inspiration pinboard’

the ‘twin pettiskirt’

view from underneath…I just love the flufiness and the colour combo. Hope you like too…^_^

A childhood friend of mine had a baby girl called Margaux 2 weeks ago. So in a last minute rush ( yep, misslastminute.com it’s me) I quilted a cute little quilt. She can use it to  put down the baby or as a play mat or just a cuddly blankie. Also Dale, our quilt mentor who started

  Quilt Quorner here in Athlone and taught us girls to quilt, had given me for Dylan a little cuddly square, full of colours and textures. So I thought I’d make one for Marguaux too. Thanks Dale!!

 Here’s what I came up with:

(Here’s Dylan’s cheeky hand there on the left lol)

(Flannel I got at the Rds show a few weeks back.Cute little birdies! Top stitched with gold thread)

Here’s the latest treasury I’ve been featured in, selected by www.thelittlebluecottage.etsy.com 

Please click away using the link above, the more clicks, the better chance this treasury has to make it to the front of Etsy

• Baby Shoes  TissaGibbons $30.00 USD 

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  FREE SHIPPING – SPRING …  vivibijoux$89.00 USD

   

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  Hey diddle diddle  myfanwynia$555.00 USD

   

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  I AM A BOY DON’T CALL M…  SneakyOwls$12.00 USD

   

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  Hand knit classic Irish…  IrishWoolen$48.00 USD

   

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  Berrylicious Summer Dress  Leatherstreasure$29.50 USD

   

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  Baby Quilt  curlyrip$75.00 USD

   

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  Little Green Princess …  thelittleblue…$15.00 USD

   

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  The Peckish Moon – Lisa…  meluseenaSold

   

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  Happy Owl Dress  beefreekidscl…$35.00 USD

   

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  Crochet Beanie hat  crochetingfor…$10.00 USD

   

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  White lace Baby appliqu… LittleSnippets $4.00 USD

   

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  Handmade Baby Bell with…  patchworkdeli…$16.00 USD

   

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  Handmade Personalised C…  LuckyRainbowD… $5.00 USD

   

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  Mrs Rabbit making tea -…  tanyabond$12.00 USD

   

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Baby quilt – Apples and Ice cream www.mukkymonkey.etsy.com $100

We’re just back from England where we’ve attended a family funeral  But we’re off again this week end for 2 weeks in the south-west of France where we’re going to stay with my family. 

Unfortunately before we can relax we’ve got loads to do and prepare. Given that on wednesday I’m going with Dylan and an artist friend to the craft market, I need to get all my available jewelry tagged and ready to go. That means making sure I’ve got enough handmade gift pouches with me (I made a few last week), look into taking a table + chairs, a table clothe, my earrings displays, enough food and toys to feed and keep baby happy…oh!and closing the etsy shop for 2 weeks and everything else I can’t think of right now but will hit me at a later date lol.

So anyway, I’m sure somehow it’ll get done. That if Dylan will let me, He’s growing 2 teeth at the moment and has the sniffles since the week-end.

He’s got nearly 8 teeth now, is starting to stand up from sitting on the floor when holding on to something and started to crawl a couple of weeks back. Yes it’s all happening and he’s just turned 11 months!

The quilt I was talking to you about is now complete and thought I would share with you some pics before I take it to France to its new home…

It’ a single bed size and there’s nothing complicated about this quilt, as it had to be done relatively quickly, it’s the print that really makes it…