Some projects during May-hem

I have been working on things here and there during "May-hem". The last month of school is always a little crazy.
I have been trying to keep my littlest miss occupied and she has wanted to make a Tooth Fairy pillow for a while. I saw a cute monster pillow on Facebook, posted by Erin Schlosser and it was a free tutorial on her blog. I showed it to my daughter and she loved the "robot" tooth fairy pillow. (We like robots around here; my husband works for a robotics company.) She chose fabrics, then she traced the applique parts and cut them out with some guidance from me. Then she sat on my lap and guided the fabric through the machine with a little more guidance from me. She drew the smile on and then I stitched across it. The most amazing thing to me was that she stuffed the legs. It was a bit hard and even I was frustrated doing it, but she stuck it out and did great! After I stitched the body together, she stuffed it and we put a little fabric heart in (like at Build-A Bear) and I stitched it shut. She LOVES it and sleeps on it instead of her regular pillow.

It has a little pocket for her tooth and a quarter from the Tooth Fairy.

 I have also been working on quilting the robot quilt. It is going well. The white is done and I am moving on to the yellow. I plan on leaving the pink un-quilted.

 



I have made some good progress on the laptop bag. I got the pouch mostly figured out other than I either cut the fabric too big or did the math wrong. It was HUGE. But that is an easy fix I think so I have one more test sleeve and a test bag just for sizing purposes and then I can get going on the real deal.





 I just had one teacher gift this year since my other 2 kids in school have multiple teachers which, I don't really do. I got my son's teacher an Amazon gift card and made a card and holder for it.

WIP Wednesday

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I haven't had a whole lot of energy to devote to sewing this week, but I did get a couple of things accomplished.
I got a cute kit at Alford Inn to make the baby quilt for my cousin's new baby. The pattern was designed by the owner and you can email or call her if  you would like to purchase the pattern. It is fast and cute. The top just takes 2 charm packs and a bit of yardage for borders. The back that came in the kit was panels that coordinated with one of the charm packs. I am going to save those for another project and use a pink and white check for the back.
I am only giving a sneak peek of the baby quilt. :)

 The other thing I worked on was making another Chelsy's Block to see if my tutorial was accurate. I cut too much off when I squared it up so it is 9.25" instead of 9.5" which will make it finish at 8.75". And there is a tuck or two in the seams. But I still like it and it is a pretty quick block to piece.

Current WIPS:

• MOTP QA:
• Circle of Wonky stars QA They are at the quilting stage and I still have not picked fabric. :)
• Buck a Block BOTM: Still in piecing mode.
• The Hot Wheels quilt: Stuck
• Flaming Dragon doll quilt: quilted (Feel free to giggle. I did. This is the worst free motion effort ever.)

 

• Baby quilt for my cousin's baby: partially pieced
• Doll quilt using vintage sheet: sheet washed
• iPhone cover (On hold pending the replacement of the phone. Don't ask. What a mess!)
• Pencil case for my purse.

New projects added:

• Very Hungry Caterpillar quilt: I was gifted a quilt kit for this and have it partially cut. It should be a quickie.
• Thread catcher

• Tooth fairy pillow (We are at the stage of a new loose tooth every week, and the tooth fairy is having trouble finding them hiding under pillows!) Finished. I used the tutorial posted Tuesday on Sew Mama Sew by Shannon from pieceLove. He loves it!