Back From Vacation

Phew... what a wondeful week! The hubby and I are back from our week long vacation! We were out in the Caribbean on a cruise boat and it was a blast! I haven't had a chance to download any of my pictures from the trip, but here's one from my phone.



The water is so beautiful... there were so many different shades of blue. I'll leave you with this picture today. Hopefully sometime this week and I can review and post my projects that I got to wear on vacation.

Vacation~!!!

I'm going on a vacation with my hubby in a couple of days and I'm SoOOOoO excited! hahaha... but now I'm doing a lot of last minute sewing so I can wear it on our vacation! :) I'll have to do all the reviews when I'm back. There's at least 3 dresses, a skirt, and a pair for shorts.

[Image is from carnival.com]

Grosgrain Giveaway!!

There was this wonderful website I found yesterday on Grosgrain. (I love this blog... there's great giveaways and cute things!) It is called Shabby Apple. They have the cutest dresses!! It make everything 10000% better, Shabby Apple is doing a guest giveaway at Grosgrain!! How awesome is that?! I'm so giddy about this... Click on the link below for more info and a chance to win. =)

Marseilles Dress SHABBY APPLE GUEST GIVEAWAY!!!!

Upcoming Projects

I cut out the fabric for Vogue 7848 I need to pick up a couple of things before I can finish this dress. Here is a picture of all the pieces pinned together. It doesn't look very good like this... I want to sew it! This is will be the first item of my mini-SWAP.



I ordered a designer sampler for quilthome.com. It's called Sugar Snap and it's so pretty. I'm going to make a quilt for halmuhnee (which is Korean for grandmother). They're so pretty.

Finishing Up Some Gifts

Below are some recently finished items... couple of them are REALLY late birthday presents and one baby shower gift.

This is my second apron from Amy Butler's inStitches book... a birthday gift... I love the fabric for this one. Both of them are from Amy Butler's Midwest Modern collection.


This is another birthday gift. It is Butterick 4859. This skirt was pretty easy to put together. I did make a few changes to the pattern. Details of this and the pattern review is found here.

Front


Back


Inside: One of my resolutions was to make the insides nicer... and I did!


Baby Shower Gift:
This was a bib from Amy Butler's Little Stitches book. Overall it was a pretty easy pattern to follow. The only difficult thing was binding the corners around the snap.


A more detailed review is found here.

I also made a matching burb cloth.