Garden Gnome Hat Re-Do

Thanks to my reader Melissa's adorable addition of flowers to her daughter's Gnome Hat, I decided to add flowers to mine as well!

{HERE is the tutorial on how to make this hat!}

I decided to use the three fabrics I had used for the skirt and make fabric flowers to add on to it.

{HERE is a tutorial I shared a few months ago on how to make these flowers.}

I LOVE LOVE LOVE how it looks now with the addition of the flowers!!!

I went to JoAnns and picked up some red buttons and just hot glued them to the center.

So now that I have this super cute hat, I need to convince my little one to wear it! She is NOT a fan {and that is putting it nicely!} I did manage to get a picture of her in it though. Of course it is a horrible picture since she was running away from me, but you get the idea! ;)

And this one. Yes, the toys are all over the floor and she has a paci hanging out of her mouth, but hey, this is real life people. LOL. My house looks like this in the middle of the day.

I also made some gnome shoes to go with her costume and will be sharing those later this week!

Nap Mat

My daughter started pre-school (WAHHHH!!!! HOW is she old enough?!?) on Tuesday and we were told that we need to bring them a pillow and blanket for quiet time. 

Well, I couldn't just bring any old pillow and blankie, I needed to make something special for her!

I searched the Internet and found this great tutorial.

I knew it would be perfect. I LOVED how the blanket and pillow are all attached so there is no chance of losing one of them!

We headed to Joanns and I let Sam pick some fabric she liked.

She is getting pretty good at picking fabric! She went right to this owl print and I couldn't have been happier! I love it :)

I love how the blanket is extra wide so she can snuggle up with it

The pillow is the perfect size too!

And it rolls up into a perfect little carrying bag!

And here is my little pre-schooler showing us how it works :) (notice the baby snuck in the picture? lol. They were fighting over this thing all night. I am thinking this would be a perfect Christmas present for the little one....)

Isn't it perfect?! And let me tell you, when we brought that sucker to class today, everyone wanted one! So cute!!!

Meet The Baby Gift

Do you guys remember the crochet baby gift I made for my BFF's baby shower?

Well, BFF had her baby! A sweet little girl named Macy! She is adorable!

I always like to give a little "meet the baby" after the baby has arrived. Nothing big, just a cute little something special for the baby.

For baby Macy I decided to make her a faux necklace onsie with a couple matching hair bows! {TUTORIAL HERE}

CUTE huh?

I used the same technique from my previous tutorial for the flower as well. I love the little bits of tulle sticking out!

Had to add some matching inter-changeable hair bows for the newborns head :)

All together I think they make an adorable gift! And I even had a package of plain white onsies on hand, so it didn't cost me anything! :) 

I brought it over to BFF last week and she loved it! I can't wait to see sweet baby Macy in her stylish new onsie! :)

Here are my kiddos holding Macy for the first time. Sam was in LOVE with her. All she wanted to do was sit on the couch and hold her. It was so sweet!

And surprisingly, Sadie was pretty in love with Macy too! She threw a fit when I picked the baby back up! It was pretty funny!

Awww- LOVE newborns!! So cute!!!


*If you paid attention, in the post about her shower gift I called the baby "Maya" and in this post I called her "Macy"... they changed her name at the last minute! Good thing I didn't make her anything with her name on it! LOL*

Tutorial- How to Make Fabric Flowers #2

Last week I showed you how to make fabric flowers that had a rounded petal HERE.

Today I am going to show you how to make fabric flowers with a pointy {for lack of a better word} petal like the ones on my Patriotic Wreath!

Ready?

You need:
Fabric
something round to trace (I used a drinking glass)
pen/pencil to do said tracing
scissors
iron
needle and thread
button to be used as the center of the flower

First- Take your fabric and trace your circles on it- you will need 5 circles for each flower. And then cut them out





After they are cut out you are going to fold them in half and then press with the iron






And then fold them in half again, and press






I cut and pressed all my petals first, then moved on to the next steps.


{yes, I am now showing pictures of the red fabric. When you have 2 kids- you don't always get to start and finish a project in the same sitting... lol}


You are now going to take your needle and matching thread and make a gathering stitch along the ROUND edge of the petal piece








Continue across the entire round edge





Then lightly pull the thread to gather your petal. DON"T cut your thread- you are going to keep adding each petal on the same thread






Add your next petal and continue with your gathering stitch just like you did with the first piece.






When you are adding each petal, make sure the opening from the fold on each piece is on the same side. Mine were all on the left.  See in the picture below?








Once you have stitched all the way across, lightly pull the thread again to gather






Continue this with each petal.






After you have added your last petal, you need to join the first and last petals together. To do this, flip the flower over, and stitch through the back of the first petal






And then pull tight and you have a flower!






Tie it off and flip it back over to admire your work! :)






At this point you can add whatever center you want to the flower. I set a goal to make my Patriotic Wreath with only materials I had at home, so I just grabbed some plain white buttons and glued them to the center. You could certainly dress this up with some cuter centers!






There you go!  Now you know how to make 2 super cute and easy fabric flowers!

Red White and Blue Patriotic Wreath

Like I have said before- this year my goal is to make a wreath for each holiday and/or season!

So far so good!

Now it was time to take down the Spring Wreath and put up a new one!

Red White and Blue!

This wreath is perfect for Memorial Day and I will be keeping it up through the 4th of July!

I made some fabric flowers with blue and red fabric and added a button center. I LOVE how they turned out!

I attached them by hot glueing a straight pin to the back of each flower and then just sticking them into the foam wreath!

 

Last week I showed you had to make Fabric Flowers with round petals HERE, this week I will show you how to make the pointy flowers that I used on this wreath! So check for that later this week!

Hope everyone is having a wonderful Memorial Day!!

Tutrial: How To Make Fabric Flowers

I have seen these tutorials for fabric flowers all over Blogland and have marked them as a "to make" item for what seems like forever now!

This weekend I finally gave it a go!

SO EASY!

Of course I took pics along the way to share with you in case you haven't seen this before!

Materials:

Fabric

Needle and thread

Button center
Scissors

First, take fabric and cut it into squares. I made mine 3 in x 3 in

** You want to IRON your squares... I was being super duper lazy did not and regretted it once it was done! So save yourself the regret- IRON!**

{I forgot to take a picture of the first square being added on... but it is the same for all of them}

You take your square and fold it in half

And then just use a long gather stitch and stitch all along the 2 edges {I would maybe make the stitches a little closer together than I did...}

And then you pull lightly on the stitch to gather your fabric

Pull it all the way and you have a petal!

 

Repeat the same process for all of your petals.   I made mine with 5 petals, but I am sure you could play around with it!

And then you add your button center {I hot glued mine in there but I am sure you can sew it. I am more of a glue girl than a sewing girl though! *wink}

I added a felt circle to the back {forgot to get a picture} and then attached it to an alligator clip. 

Now it can be clipped directly into your hair, or onto a headband!

You could even add a pin to the back instead and clip it to a belt, a purse... the options are endless!

LOVE it!

 I also plan on making one with each petal a different fabric, I think that would be cute as well!