Fruity Cutie!

I'm so glad you all liked the cupcake topper tutorial. I felt silly posting it, since it's so easy, but that seemed to be a good thing! Yay!

I hope you're all smiling because it's Friday. But just in case you need a little mid-morning pick me up, Harper says, "Oh, hai!"



It's fun having a model for onesies now. I used Danielle's Kawaii Cute Fruits pattern set for this project. I actually enlarged the pattern just a bit, used a Sulky iron-on transfer pen, (Which you can now get here, through Sublime Stitching!) and transferred the image directly on to a piece of red felt.



I know I've shown several projects with embroidered felt patches before, and I'm just curious, would anyone be interested in an embroidered onesie or felt patch tutorial? Sometimes jersey material can be tricky to deal with, and I thought it might be nice to share some tips.

I have another project idea for Danielle's fruit patterns, but I need to work out a few of the kinks first.

While you're at it, be sure to check out Danielle's Eame's inspired coat rack tutorial!



What a great weekend project this would be. I love the colors she used!

Also, she's hosting a giveaway on her blog, so be sure to try your luck with that. Since I'm on the creative team now, I don't feel right about entering, but I would love for you to win!

Another great weekend project to consider? How about a crib mobile made from fabric dots?!




I'm kind of crazy in love with this project, made by Jaime of "Sew She Sews". Her blog and her Flickr stream are so inspiring, you should take a look.

I hope you all have a great weekend, and I'll see you next week!

Hugs & Stitches,
Amy

Thumbelina

Just a quick little post to share a picture of my newest tattoo! I told Dave I wanted a tattoo of Harper in a thimble, since she's our tiny Thumbelina baby.

Once again, he's exceeded my expectations and amazed me.



I love how the two tattoos play off of each other:



Eventually, I'd like to get the watercolor portrait of Darcy that Dave painted as a tattoo.



Chicago friends: Dave will be guest spotting at Deluxe Tattoos at the end of April. I hope you can make plans to visit him! I'll be sure to post the exact dates once I know for sure when he will be there. But if you think you might be interested, I recommend contacting him soon, as he tends to book quickly.

Now for a little stitching! I made this for Dave after the triceratops tattoo as a thank you / tip.



Some of you may be thinking, "Wha?" This is a play on the popular phrase, "All your base are belong to us." If this still doesn't make sense, click here for a more detailed explanation.

This sign is a huge hit and I've been convinced to make more of these. So if your tattooist is a hipster geek, I'll have more of these in my Etsy shop soon.

xoxo
Amy

Sugar Skull Onesie

Thank you all for leaving such sweet words about Harper's arrival. Each one makes my heart swell with even more pride, which I didn't think was possible.

I told you I would share my last embroidery project before having Harper, and here it is!

I decided to stitch the Sugar Skull design from the wonderful new book, Embroidered Effects by Jenny Hart. If you don't have this book yet, get it ASAP! It is amazing and full of inspiration. I'm not kidding when I say I want to stitch everything in the book. And as it turns out, I did stitch 3 projects for the book! I just had to keep it a secret until the book was released. Be on the look out for the Fan Dancer Shower Curtain, the Bird Jeans, and the Tattoo Work Shirt, all stitched by yours truly!

So on to the Sugar Skull! (Which was stitched by my talented friend Floresita, for the book.) I absolutely LOVE this design. I fell in love with it in the preview photos, and I fell in love all over again when I saw the beautiful pictures in the book.

I had some black onesies, and I decided to dress one up by making a felt applique using the Sugar Skull design. Here's how it looks:




Unfortunately, this is a size 3 to 6 months, so Harper won't be able to wear it this year. I'm thinking about listing it in my Etsy shop, since I don't know of any other babies to gift it to at the moment. If any of my readers are interested, just email me and let me know!

Oh! If you haven't seen it already, take a look at my friend Kristi's stitched version of this Sugar Skull. It's BEE-YOO-TIFUL! Her macro embroidery shots are drool worthy.

xoxo
Amy

Brand New Love

Well, I did it! I finally had my baby girl. She was born on 09/23/09 at 10:11pm.

I'd like you to meet Harper Grace:

She is a tiny little bundle of love, weighing in at 5 lbs, 2 oz and 18.5 inches long. But she is strong, healthy and perfect, and we're so glad she's finally here. We are all still amazed at her beautiful dark hair! It will be fun to see if it gets lighter as she grows.

Needless to say, blogging and stitching might be put on the back burner for a while, until I get the hang of juggling 2 kids. Luckily I managed to finish one last embroidery project before having Harper, and I hope to share that with you tomorrow. Stay tuned!

xoxo,
Amy

Who's Cute?

Another cute onesie I made for my new baby girl. This sweet pattern is from the Sublime Stitching Baby Bib Kit.

Be sure to check out Claudia's cute pug embroidery for more inspiration!

The First Onesie

Well I did it. I finally stitched a onesie for our new baby girl, due at the end of September. I think it's a little funny that it took me so long to start onesies for her, seeing how I'm 31 weeks pregnant this week.

I've had a little case of stitcher's block in the baby department, and I know that's why it took me so long to get things started. But on Tuesday, I received the cure to end all mom-to-be stitcher's block.

The new Sublime Stitching Baby Bib Embroidery Kit truly is as wonderful and adorable as people say it is. The baby started kicking and flipping just from me looking at the patterns! (Ok, maybe I made that last part up. But believe me, you will fall in love!)

The kit comes with six iron on transfers, two of which I think can be used on things other than bibs. Also included are two bibs, five skeins of floss, a needle and an instruction booklet.

I decided to start out with the 2 non foodie patterns and embroider onesies, since I'm out of stabilizer and decided I'd like to add stabilizer to the back of the bibs before I start stitching them. Although knowing me, I'll probably get impatient, and start embroidering the bibs before making it to the craft store for stabilizer.






I just love all of the patterns included in the kit, and I thought this one and the owl pattern would look super cute on onesies. (I should finish the owl onesie later today.)

I know I mentioned I'm out of stabilizer, and normally, I prefer to have stabilizer if I'm going to be embroidering on onesies or t-shirts. But I don't feel stabilizer is necessary when I am embroidering on the Gerber organic onesies, which is what I used.

If you love this pattern as much as I do, but you just can't wait for your own Baby Bib Kit to arrive before stitching it, you can download it for free, from this archived Craftzine Podcast!

Stay tuned for more projects made using patterns from this kit!

xoxo
Amy