Valentine Dress

There is a new little guy around here and he is pretty cute!

Baby J was born three weeks ago and we are all totally in love with him! At 7 pounds 12 ounces, he is the smallest (and hairiest) of all my babies and he is so snuggly!

He has been taking up most of my time lately, but I did manage to squeeze in some sewing at the request of this sweet girl who needed a new dress for valentines day!

We have some springy weather around here and I can't wait to sew up some more dresses for this girl.  Now if only the grass would hurry up and turn a springy green too!

Em asked to go to the fabric store and she chose the fabrics and buttons for this dress, I love her choices!  I used the Emory Dress pattern by Izzy and Ivy, the same pattern I used for her sun dress last year with is still one of her favorites, just a bit too short now!

The pattern has button loops on the back, but I am not a big fan of button loops.  I find them tedious to sew and they never look quite right when I am done.  So I switched them out for regular button holes.

I drafted a pattern to make a matching dress for her dolly too, she got this doll for Christmas and loves when they can match!

My sewing time is a bit sparse while I figure out our new normal with three kiddos...and most of my free time is spent snuggle my new little guy!  But hopefully you will see me around here a bit more soon!

Tutorial: Heart Garland

Want some quick and easy valentine's day decor?
Check this out!

I made this garland in about 20 minutes this morning before my kids woke up.  And all you need to make it is  a few sheets of felt (that only cost about $0.30), a piece of thread, and some glue.  This project costs around $1, I love cheap crafts!

I hung mine over the door to our back porch, but this would look cute anywhere. If we had a mantel, it probably would have gone there.

It's a cute way to bring some colorful valentine's cheer to your home! 

To make a garland, you need:

• one piece of string as long as you want your garland, plus a little extra to tie it up.
• sheets of felt.
• hot glue gun and glue sticks.

Cut your felt into 1"x 9" strips, a rotary cutter and mat make this really easy but scissors work too. 

Then cut all your strips in half so they are 1" x 4.5"

Tie a knot in your string to make it easy to hang.

Put a dot of glue on the bottom of one of your felt strips and stick your string in the glue.

Put a matching felt strip on top so the string is glued between the 2 strips.

Fold the ends of the felt pieces down to form a heart and glue them together with the string sandwiched in between them.

Glue two strips to the bottom of the heart.

Glue those strips to make another heart.

Keep adding hearts to the chain until you get the length you want.

Then hang it up!  I used thumb tacks to hang mine.