Hooded Towel

Made this hooded towel for a friend's baby. I was inspired by this tutorial:

http://www.make-baby-stuff.com/hooded-baby-bath-towel-pattern.html

It may just be the fastest craft I've ever worked on. Next time I'll make the hood a bit smaller.

More baby gifts

I made this for a friend's little girl using heat transfer paper and some ribbon. I made the watercolor image (from one of my little girl's activity books--traced it with some changes, colored it with watercolors, then used a sharpie to trace the outline, wrote the phrase), scanned it, and printed it onto the transfer paper. After ironing it on (very carefully!), I just added the ribbon for the tutu and sewed in the bows for the slippers.

For the ribbon socks, I stitched the "top" of the ribbon with straight stitch on my sewing machine, then sort of pulled on the thread to give it that scrunched up look (is that even a word?). After it looked just like I wanted, I stitched the ribbon to the sock. Darling!

Packaging Ideas

I usually don't keep wrapping paper in stock at the house (It's always so appalling to see how expensive the pretty paper always is--might as well use those five bucks on the gift!) which means that when it's time to give a gift I'm always scrambling to figure out how to make it presentable. I don't always succeed, mind you, but I thought this came out pretty cute.

Paper pumpkins edit

The idea came from Michael's The Knack newsletter.

Paper pumpkins

Fall decor

This easy fall craft was made with cardstock and skewers. It lasted quite a bit despite all the yummy candy!

Latest creative project

It's a cell phone case. Very simple, indeed, as it is a simple drawstring bag, but quite useful.