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Publish PostThirty one years ago, I crocheted a couple of sweaters while pregnant with my first child. I had learned to crochet as a child, but hated the fact that my grandmother had made me do a sampler instead of something cool, so I never used my skills to make anything. But suddenly I had a great need to cover my child in things I had made, so I sewed and crocheted for months. Kimonos,

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This is the other recipient of the Pansy Ruffley Butt outfit, Miss C. L. A.She seems to like it...I think she looks like her Daddy...Three generations of overalls. And three generations of sleeping

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Remember this post from back in the spring? I made a purple ruffle butt outfit for my then-unborn granddaughter. My sister Amanda requested that I make one for a friend of hers whose baby was due in mid-summer. Because I am the best of all possible older sisters*, I did so. I got a picture today of Miss Ruffle Butt herself- isn't she a doll? So tiny! In this one she looks worn out from carrying

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When I saw this, admittedly very odd, dress at the Cumberland Valley Animal Shelter Thrift Store, I was both horrified and intrigued. I mean, it really is peculiar.I knew it would be a great little girl dress. In fact, I believe one of my sisters had a dress made from a very similar fabric back in the '60's.I took the dress apart. The construction was simple, but weird- Imagine folding a piece

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Grandma made the CUTEST dress ever. And getting to see Granddaughter # 1 in the cutest dress ever made the almost paralysing fear over granddaughter #2's hospitalization a little easier to live with.The cutest dress ever began with a pair of jeans from Better Days Animal League Thrift Store. Granddaughter # 1 is a HUGE Mickey Mouse fan, and when I saw these, I could not pass them up. And for a

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These were gifts- the orange one to my friend D for her granddaughter, and the green to my friend B, for her daughter. These two and my granddaughter were all born the same year, and (almost) share a name- if they were a secret society, they could be called "The Triumvirate of E".My son has been calling the bib I sent his daughter "Food Armour", and these two bibs have a Shrinky-Dink (tm) tag

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I have been doing a lot of baby and toddler sewing recently- and it's been a lot of fun. Recently I came across something that really caught my attention- a woman in California who is making a new article of clothing every day. She uses dresses purchased from a thrift store for $1.00 and repurposes these finds. Her blog, New Dress a Day shows a daily before and after picture, as well as

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Baby hats! I have become obsessed with making little fabric flowers and sewing them on baby hats. These are organic cotton blanks, from Dharma Trading, dyed in pastels. Here are close-ups of the flowers. The larger hat on the far left is called a mushroom- it's for Elliott.The rest I am going to sell on Etsy, unless Katie and Bart want one for the new baby.Close-ups of the flowers:- each is

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A year later-I've been sewing for babies. We are expecting our second granddaughter in July, and I have been sewing (and knitting) like a mad woman.First- shower gift. When they found out the baby would be a girl, my son and daughter-in-law asked for clothes with ruffles on the butt. They said they had been shopping, and ruffly butt items were very expensive. So I made this- the ultimate

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My most recent knitting project is still in process.I was visiting the Yarn Garden a few weeks ago, as my "get out of the house" treat for the week. There was a gorgeous scarf on a mannequin. It turned out to be the Shape It scarf from Sally Melville's Knitting Experience. There was something about the way it looked on display, almost like jewelery rather than a scarf. I really liked it.The

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A pretty baby in a pretty sweater. This is a sweater I made for my granddaughter. The pattern is Elizabeth Zimmerman's Tomten Jacket, with a modification- The sweater is supposed to be done in garter stitch, and somehow I didn't get that from the pattern. I did it in stockinette, because the slubbiness of the yarn looked better that way, I thought.Not exactly a new knitter, I am still not a

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