Life in Color — a scrappy Log Cabin quilt block pieced in pink and green prints.

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Bennie’s Blanket

August 9, 2012

Even though we woke her up in the middle of the night to come help at Bennet’s birth Sciarrino managed to grab the birthday present she’d made for the baby. She made up this sweet wonky stars quilt with some cottons we’d got at quilt guild and shirting. The shirting has a really great subtle texture that I love. Bennet seems to really love the quilt too. Don’t babies make the best faces? I forgot how awesome it is when they think your big black camera is the best thing to look at.

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Snack bag tutorial

July 18, 2012

Ok, yes, there are a million snack bag tutorials out there. But after I borrowed one of my friend’s I knew I had to reverse engineer it and make some up myself. I haven’t seen a pattern quite like this out there, so I thought I’d post a little tutorial. I’m not going to lie; once I finally figured out the construction of this thing I felt like a FREAKING GENIUS and may have shoved snack bags in everyones faces. So much so that when I started saying, “I have something to show you…” my crafty friends would say, “um,…

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The (new) Baby Blanket

July 16, 2012

I thought it would be nice to make something up specifically for this baby. I have lots of wonderful handmade things that the baby will use, but almost all are hand me downs from Tuesday’s time as a little one. I don’t think there is anything wrong with that at all, and it has made prep much easier, but I figured something special just for this summer baby would be wonderful. I was VERY inspired by this quilt from Blue Elephant Stitches. In fact she has an Etsy shop and I thought about just ordering one from her, but my…

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Bennie’s Blanket

Snack bag tutorial

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