January Blog Hop

Happy New Year!  Welcome to Lori Whitlock's creative team blog hop.

Here is the order of the hop...

Lori Whitlock

Brigit Mann 

Christine Ousley 

Corri Garza 

Mendi Yoshikawa 

Natalie Graham *** you are here****

Traci Penrod 

Chrissy Guido

Ashley Cook

Lorrie Nunemaker 

Smitha Katti

Stephanie Chavers 

I am excited to share with you a little project I made for my girls.  It kind of makes me giddy and happy just looking at it.  Possibly because I would have loved it when I was a little girl, so of course making it was just as fun.  My girls love their American Girl dolls. It seems like every birthday and Christmas we collect more clothes and accessories for them.  This Christmas we picked up these doll bed at IKEA, which were the perfect size for the American Girl doll.  So with a little stash of Lori's Simply Sweet Collection for Riley Blake Designs, this little beauty was born.

All this bedding was made from fat quarters from this collection.  Which makes it easy to cut and collect multiple pieces from the line of fabric.

I made a foam "mattress" cut from a piece of foam to fit the bed found from my local craft store.  I covered that with two fat quarters, using the left overs for the small pillows.

For the sheets, I used plain broad cloth trimmed in ric rac, folded over to create a hem just like you would find on real sheets.

For the quilt, I cut various sized strips of fabrics ranging from 1 inch to 3 inches, sewing them in random order, occasionally adding ric rac or trim.  After it was the size I wanted, I added batting and added an additional fat quarter as the backing.

As much as this project would seem like it would have taken a long time, it didn't, I made two full bedding sets in one night, including the mattresses and pillows.

My girls were thrilled to get these.  They love it, and hopefully enjoy them for years to come.

So along with this hop, Lori is having a sale, so make sure you stop by her store to check out all the wonderful things she has going!

Thanks for stopping in!

Next stop ...   Traci Penrod 

Hello Sunshine - LDS scripture bag

Hello everyone, today we have a break in the paper crafting to share with you a little bag I made for my daughter's birthday.  She turned 8 this last week, and from her grandpa she received a set of scriptures for church.  Since I knew these were coming, I decided to make a bag for her to put them in.  I was in my local craft store and spotted Lori Whitlock's Hello Sunshine collection in fabric from Riley Blake, and since it was to darling to pass up, I grabbed it and came home and went to work.

I pinned this pattern from Pinterest a while back, and actually made ballet bags for both of my girls with it to hold their shoes to take to class.  It was simple and perfect size I made it again for this bag. I did actually make the bottom a little more narrow than the pattern called for so it would fit her scriptures better.  Since it needed a little dressing up, I added the flower to make it a little more frilly, just like my daughter is.  Lets just say she was thrilled with it, and can't wait to take them to church with her.

Thanks for stopping by!