2014-March-April: Oshie Art Masterpiece Wedding Gift

OK, in a big break from the sewing machine, I did a BIG Oshie art fabric piece for the wedding of my friends W. and B.!  Well, it was about 15" square, but it was big in terms of time and effort!

It was really fun to design and put together.  I will admit, after finishing it, I was ready to take a hiatus from Oshie work for a while. :)

I really like the Oshie technique because it lets you do something so "quilted" and patchworky without actually sewing.  Of course, now that I'm better at sewing and have even made a couple quilts, I would love to explore the look of this piece on an actual quilt.

2014-February: Sunny Trainers #2!

This was another iteration of the Sunnies trainers.  They have fleece side panels and waistband, knit outside (Sunnies!), and a cotton fleece inner.  There is elastic in the waistband, too.  I tried to make these in a different way, with the body constructed more like a diaper.  I don't think aesthetically it was that successful, but these worked great as trainers!!

2014-February: Bear Undies

I made these for E. as she was in-between on regular undies and trainers.  All soft knit fabrics, the leg and waist bands being my old pajama shorts, and the inside was my old shirt!

2014-February: ALL THE DIAPERS!

I thought it was so cool that I sewed a pretty good stash of diapers!  Look at that!  They were going to two different people, to diaper three different babies, but still.  They all ultimately came back to me when I had C, because a) my friends are nice like that; b) yet another reason why cloth diapers are AWESOME because you can pass them on and reuse them EVEN MORE, take that disposables; and c) they both ended up not using cloth anymore for various reasons (sad but it happens).