À Paris......{A week of making}

hello hello :)

Today I've been feeling like a Parisian..I'm all day singing in my head a song called À Paris. I don't know if you've heard of it, but I posted a link if you'd like to listen to it!!! But there's a reason for this!!! Today I met my French friend who will be returning to France in the next month!!! I'm so happy and excited for her!!! I'm absolutely certain that everything will work out in the end!!!

And of course I'm also happy cause now I can share with you my makings for her:D 

She had asked for a baby fabric book, and I made her also a "matching" quilted bib for the little girl.  I just find this stripped red fabric so "Frenchy", don't you? 

I've also finally dared to make yo yo flowers!! I can't understand why I didn't for so long!! They are SO EASY to make and so cute!!!

She also had asked me for a quilted head scarf!!! Which I forgot to take a picture!! How silly of me!! At least I can tell you one thing!! it fitted very well, and that she loved it!! And last but not least, she had asked me for a coaster set, in neutral pale colors!! 

I've also made for her, her first Christmas ornament {for her new home in France}, and the first ornament in general for this year!!! Lovely, isn't it? 

Now on, to this week's makings!!! Remember I told you that I had a super express delivery for a baby fabric book for a boy!! I found it harder to find themes for the boyish book, but I think I managed at the end!! This little book will fly this week to Cyprus!! I can't wait for the feed back:D 

I've also finished the fabric photo album sleeve for the wedding my cousin had photographed.  I'm pretty much happy with the result, although I'm not so sure about the colors. But they did match the wedding favor they had given me!!

I've added two bright red felt hearts to the little couple and it kind of broke all this blue and green!! It's just a darling applique, don't you agree?

And now something really new for me!!! I finally dared to sew an apparel!!! A pinafore dress for a girl!! Fish Chris helped me with the pattern. We found this tutorial, but we did make a lot of changes to the original pattern. 

And so today morning we came from this...

to this...

One very important thing I learned though, and I really want to share with you {learning from your mistakes is the best part of the whole process, right?}, is that's not to easy to to sew a stretched fabric on a sturdy cotton fabric.  You cannot easily see it in the pics but after I've sewn the outer side of the dress, I realized that the edges were kind of wavy.. I don't know if you can understand well what I'm saying!!! But I did press it very well, and it's not so visible!!! I've also made another mistake with the position of the buttonholes, but I'll be more careful next time!! oooohhh!!! enough with the mistakes part!!! I'm just sew excited and happy with this little cutie!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is just a sample, but I'm pretty sure that you'll see more like this in the near future;) If you have any tips, on sewing baby clothes, or any tuts that are interesting please do share!!!

And last but not least!!! I just wanted to share with you some major BIG news!! I'm participating in an Xmas craft fair in the start of December!!! I can't tell you how excited I am!!! I wish all of you could be there to meet you and have a nice chit chat!! Wouldn't it be great?

I'm wishing everyone a great/creative week:D