Fair and Rodeo (aka Beauty and the Beast)

I entered projects in the fair!  4 to be exact.  The diaper bag I made jsut before C was born, her baptism outfit, the hoodie, and I'm also working on 1 more top.  It's an Oliver + S pattern in beautiful red seersucker.

I hope I win something.

C is still a crawling machine.  She goes everywhere now.  And she pulls herself up on anything she can get a handle on.  It's like I don't have time to take pictures because she is already into the next mess.

I am going to make her one of these.  I think it will be a safe thing to pull up on.  My sister sent me some great fabric from Amsterdam for Caroline and I can't think of anything to make with it, maybe this would be appropriate.  It's not home dec fabric but I could just interface it, right?

We also got a bike trailer and hooked it up last night.  Our first family bike ride was fun, even though it got dark earlier than expected.  And today I took C all around town in the trailer.  If you see a lady in a neon pink helmet pulling a bike trailer with a purple bike (named Zeek, the bike, not the lady) it's probably me.  I'm going everywhere on that thing.

Rodeo is a crazy time in my town.  I'm bracing myself.  The pizza shop is swamped, and everywhere you go you are bumping into cowboys.  Real cowboys and wannabes.  Either way there are too many people in my town.  I don't like it.  And every year I end up going to Fred Meyer for some stupid thing and I just want to yell, "get out of my town!"  I think the solution is to do my grocery shopping early this year, and take a chill pill.  Or have a beer which wasn't an option last year.  I think I was just hot and cranky because I was 7 months pregnant.

Next weekend I am going dress shopping with my friend Hannah.  She's getting married next July and I am, drum roll, the maid of honor again.  Yay!  I feel more prepared this time, and ready for the challenge.

Sewing and Crawling

(I wrote this the first week of August and didn't post because I didn't have the right pictures.  I'm posting it now.  Still sans pics.)

C learned to crawl this week.  Thus the lack of posts.  It's like getting a new job.  There's a lot to learn and it's exhausting.  She is one heck of a boss.  She expects a lot.  Here she is.  And I love how she claps for herself at the end.  She does the same thing when she sees Elmo.

I did a few projects this week though:  I made the Sorbetto Top from Colette Patterns.
At first it was too short, and a little too tight.

So I figured out how to adjust the pattern for my bust size and voila!

I was inspired by "Make This Look" on Sew Weekly and then I saw that she was doing a 7 Days of Sorbetto series.  Yay!  I love the top I made and can't wait to do another one, maybe this time with sleeves.  I want ot make them as gifts, show other people how to make them, and then make some more.  That's how much I loved this pattern and the final product.


I also made a bubble romper for Little C using McCall's MP402 view C.  Instead of the pocket I added a flower.  What do babies need pockets for?  Apparently pacifiers.  Due to the bubble-ness of her outfit she lost all 3 pacifiers into her pants last night.  Maybe if she had a pocket to put them in that wouldn't have happened.

She's sleeping for now, but I still have to shower (I know, I'm being lazy) and pack for the weekend and finish writing my Maid of Honor speech (whoops!) for the wedding.  And baby bounce (the last one of the summer...wah, wah) is in 30 minutes.  If I get it all done, maybe I can whip up some baby legs this afternoon.