Making It With Allie - A Quilt for Theodore

Hello friends!
I had such a busy week last week, I only JUST realized that I totally missed last week!
Please forgive me?

Earlier this year, a very dear friend of mine, Stacee, asked me to make a quilt for one of the athletes she trains.
They would be welcoming a beautiful baby boy into their home, and this would be a gift.
To begin, Stacee showed me a quick video of the nursery.
I can't find the video at this point, but it was SO cute!
Gray painted walls with white trim and then adorable mod birch tree decals.
All around were cute little woodland animal plushies.
SO cute.  I must say.

So, Stacee and I worked together to prepare a fitting quilt that had some great sensory woodland animals.
It worked out really well.
Each little animal has a different texture.
And I was even able to make some birch tree silhouettes with some white heat transfer and black satin.
Have a look!

The little fox was appliqued with layers of furry wool.

The tree frog is appliqued satin.

The little hedge-hog baby is layers of satin with blanket stitch for some texture.

The little baby quail is layers of textured satin.  I wish the texture showed up in the photo...

The little owl is wool with a satin beak. 

The little bunny rabbit is eyelash plush.

I love this little doe with the spots and a touch of pink in the ear.

The little raccoon is layered satin with lots of stitch texture.

So, this week, after little baby Theodore's name has been settled on, Stacee brought me the blanket, and the birth information was embroidered on the bias binding.
I blurred out his last name for anonymity, but I did want to show you the fantastic font called
Wade Grotesque Casual Swash.  
It's one of my favorites and I think it works perfect with the mod quilt.

The reverse is super soft plush in teal.
I love the stuff.
I know the ladies at the cutting counter hate when I have it in my cart.
But kids just LOVE the stuff!

It worked out well, I think!
What do you all think?

Now, it's time for the

Making It With Allie Party!

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Making It With Allie - Easter Dress 2012

Hello Friends!!
How was your recent holidays of Easter and Passover?
Ours was lovely!
I love this age with kids.  They love to celebrate and learn about these fun holidays.
We did a night-time egg hunt with glow in the dark bracelets and plastic eggs.
We did a traditional Egg hunt on Sunday morning and we are still finding eggs...

I prepared Miss AuBrynne's Easter dress.
Actually, I made another one, but the fabric was being, shall we say, Cranky.
When I worked in the costume department, we called it "woodjy".
The fabric was certainly being woodjy.  I tried adjusting stitch length and needle size and even doing bias seams. Nothing helped to make the fabric cooperate.  I really don't know why I waited till I was hemming to just start again.  I guess I thought I could salvage it.  I couldn't.
So...... Thursday night, I started over.
AuBrynne and I quickly established what design she wanted and I took a deep breath.
But, it went SUPER fast!
And it turned our adorable.
I nearly had to wrestle it off her for bed that night.
She LOVES to wear it.  And her little kitten-heels we found for her.

So hear are some "blustery wind" (as AuBrynne says) photos from our Sunday morning egg hunt.
We live in the Chicagoland area, but the winds lately have been RIDICULOUS!
They were coming from every direction Sunday.
Anyways...

Somebody thinks she is a high-paid model...

And a sassy "model walk", haha.

Those two bottom teeth are almost all the way grown in!  I'm going to miss the lost-teeth-lisp.

AuBrynne insisted on this photo because you can see her shadow.
She is REALLY into Peter Pan right now.

Now, it's time for the

Making It With Allie Party!

What have you got this week?

I am anxious to see!

You all are SO inspiring, I can't wait!

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Making It With Allie - Lucky Girl

I have a Lucky charm every day. 
Not just on St. Patrick's Day.
Her name is AuBrynne.


Yesterday, when AuBrynne and I sad down to decide what her  St. Patrick's Day outfit should be,
 she had some pretty specific ideas, and I knew JUST what to put on her shirt!
She wanted a sporty but girly "lucky" dress.

So, I whipped out my finicky Silhouette, fabrics and serger.
And we threw this little number together.

I used three types of heat transfer for the sporty graphic.

I layered first: Emerald City - Specialty Glitter

Then applied Apple Green Smooth Heat Transfer for the little shamrock

And finally, I applied some Orange Flocked Heat Transfer

Ok, I just had to put this little photo in... they don't call it the Windy City for nothing!
The wind kept blowing  her hair ALL over the place...

I think it turned out pretty cute. She likes it.

I think I might need one for myself.

It should be pretty easy, now that the cut file is done.

If anybody would like the cut file, leave me a note and I can send it to you!

Now, it's time for the

Making It With Allie Party!

What have you got this week?

I am anxious to see!

You all are SO inspiring, I can't wait!

So, grab a button (below) or a text link is fine too.
Follow along if you like what you see.

I want to visit all of your links,
so link up your direct post, not your main blog page!
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Back-to-School Girly Backpack

I am jumping for joy and excited!

Do you know why?

School has started and I can get back to making stuff and blogging!

YAY!

Are any of you taking a big sigh of relief at having a moment to even think, let alone get things back into a normal rhythm?

I hope you are! Even those of you with first time little ones out the door - the sad "my little one is already going to school" moment will pass.

I promise.

So, little AuBrynne hopped on the bus to her first day of Pre-K class at our local elementary.

And she does this without hesitant! She doesn't even meed me!

I knew this would be the case, as she had been asking me for 93 straight days, when she could go back to school.

When we were getting her school supplies ready, the list called for a "large backpack".

Ok. Cool. Until you start looking for one and you have basically two options:

-the dreaded obnoxious character plastered all over; or

-cute, but priced way out of budget.

So, I decided that I could make a backpack with super cute fabrics and some iron on vinyl.

So, I did.

I found some cute fat quarter packs that little AuBrynne LOVED, and melted the iron on vinyl to all but one of the fat quarter pieces. 

Then I cut them in to three inch strips and sewed them all together into one piece and then top-stitched all the seams open.

After all that, I cut all the pieces of the backpack out and assembled it.

For the back, I sandwiched cushioning between the outside and the lining and then quilted the piece.

I also left the straps without the vinyl coating and also made them super cushioned for comfort.

The applique was done with two pieces that I cut with my Silhouette SD and a 60° blade.

I layered them together and used a blanket stitch on my machine to go around all of the edges.

I think it all turned out super cute!

And AuBrynne loves it!

The bus comes RIGHT at lunch time, so she finished as she waited ♥

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Mom, It has to go all the way down...

So, I threw on a maxi dress yesterday. 

Maxi dresses are a my summer staple in my wardrobe.

Anyway, when Miss AuBrynne took a look at me, she exclaimed:

Oh, Mom! That is how I want my dress! It is SO beautiful! Can you make me one?

I have been trying to get her to agree to something red, white and blue for ages.

So I was quite surprised when she pulled these two fabrics from the stash!

So, before she could change her mind, I threw this little cutie together.

It went SUPER fast!

As I was making the skirt part, I tried to reason with her about the length -I was concerned with tripping.

But she would have NONE of it. She kept saying:

Mom, It has to go all the way down.

And before I finished, she insisted I add some bling.

So out came the hotfix!

I love catching these "model" poses!

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