Rachel's Towel

I think I've written about the towels I make for babies before.  This one is for a sweet little girl that will be born tomorrow.  I LOVE the colors and the butterflies.  

Elephants Never Forget

And I'm not an elephant.  I forgot to take some pictures of the details of Abby's quilt.  And, I forgot to write a post yesterday.

So, I'll make up for it today.  Here's the pictures of Abby's quilt:

And here are some close-ups of the stitches (and yes it was my first quilt done on a machine, so I'm really embarrassing myself here, don't look too close).

Clouds on the blue cloth above the flowers

Stripes stitching to help it look more like grass.

Tulip detail on the yellow and pink.  (I cheated and used my embroidery machine to do these.  I just used the same pattern that I used on the flowers but only the straight stitch parts.)

Just another layer to really personalize the quilt.

Girly Girls

I need to write a bag tutorial, but I'm still fine tuning my technique, so I don't feel comfortable posting one yet.  I'm going to make trick or treat bags for the kids for this year.  I've had the cloth for two years, its about time I did it.  Last night I whipped up this darling little number for a girl that was described to me many times as a girly girl.  I approached the making the bag much differently than I have in the past and was very pleased with the results: