adorable growth chart alert

If you're like me, one of the projects you want to do but have never gotten around to is creating a growth chart to track your kiddos growth. It's seriously been on my to do list since Henry was born, ahem, 3 years ago. It was probably the first DIY I pinned on Pinterest.

Whoops.

sunday stitch vol. 3 - attack of the octopus

It's that time again, and boy, this week's project was a doozie. As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I just purchased the book Little One Yard Wonders and was excited to jump in and make the adorable octopus hiding within its pages. Last week's stuffed robot was a huge success, so this would be just the same, right?

Right?

Only my friend and shop owner at City Craft, the wonderful Callie, warned me that this project was a bear. Those of you that are fortunate enough to know Callie will attest that she has a super positive attitude, so if she says that something is a pain, you'd better watch out. 

Man, was she right.

I heeded her warning and proceeded with caution. I knew I wanted to make two of them - one for Henry and one for Max - so I was smart enough to cut the fabric for both octopuses at the same time. And yes, it's octopuses and not octopi; I googled it. That way, if the first one was a huge pain in the ass, it would significantly increase the chances of me completing the second one if the fabric was already cut.

I made this face literally the entire duration of this project.

quilt club: half square triangles

Time for Modern Quilt Club with City Craft! This month's homework assignment was to create a block (or, ahem, an entire quilt for you overachievers) using half square triangles. It was a great, easy, not intimidating first homework assignment for people like me who have made quilts, but have never bothered with silly things like patterns or measuring.

What's a half square triangle, you ask? You take a square of fabric, cut it in half from corner-to-corner (creating the hypotenuse...see, I know stuff), and you have a half square triangle. Pretty basic, and it's the building block for many awesome quilts. Oh, and quilting nerds call this a HST for short.

I loved how we all had the same mission, and everybody came back with something completely different.

Here are some pretties from this month. Warning, this might make you want to make a quilt.

This guy was my block. It is made up of a couple of gorgeous vintage fabrics from my stash (thanks Grandmommy) and a few modern fabrics to create a chevron pattern. My thought is that I'll do a different color block each month and make a ROYGBIV style sampler quilt at the end. We'll see how that goes.

summer bucket list #14: yummy (healthy) frozen yogurt popsicles

One of the more delicious items that I added to our summer bucket list is making homemade popsicles. It's crazy-simple, yet somehow, I completely forgot to do this last summer. Whoops. We'll chock that up to pregnancy brain (along with everything else I neglected to do last year).

These are beyond simple to make, like to the point that it barely qualifies as a recipe. There are thousands of things you can do to customize them to your liking.

sunday stitch vol. 2 - snuggle bot

Back again for another edition of The Sunday Stitch with Hi and Hello. I'm still riding on my sewing high. I start to get withdrawls when I go more than a few days without firing up the old machine. I know, it's weird.

This week I dove into Let's Sew Together and made this adorable little Robot. I named him Snuggle-Bot. Henry calls him R2D2, which drives the Hubs insane, because obviously he looks nothing like R2D2. Well, that made Henry settle on the name all the more.

This was a pretty simple little project and happily, I had all the materials just lying around. Well, I did run out of fiber filling about halfway through. But other than that, it was another great project to bust through my stash.