Very Customized Baby Gift

Kelli's good friends have a new baby boy and she contacted me about creating a very customized baby gift set. This was such a fun project to work on -- I love doing this stuff!! No fears of a duplicate gift here! :)

The dad is a huge Star Wars fan, so on a t-shirt we put "Future Jedi" on the front and "Max" on the back.


Kathy digitized the text for me using the Star Jedi font.


Since his initials are MJ, and the dad is also a huge Michael Jackson fan, along with how awesome Michael Jordan is, Kelli suggested this for a bib:

The microphone design is from 8 Claws and a Paw (thanks Julie!), as is the Happy Days font I used for MJ. The basketball is from EmbroideryDesigns.com.

The mom carried the torch for the Olympics several years back. Kelli suggested "I hold a torch for Mommie" for a burp cloth.

The torch flame embroidery design is also from 8CP. I added the text with Embird Alphabet #8.

No bake cookies

These no bake cookies have no calories, too! :)

Today I stitched more designs from the play food sets I told you about here. The snack set is not yet available on SWAK, I'll try to update with a link once they are listed.
Chocolate Chip cookies:

All the sugar cookie designs came with embroidered sprinkles, but I left those off and used my new sprinkle fabrics.



I kind of regret using this fabric on the heart and flower cookies -- since the patches are so small and satin stitches are so LONG, very few sprinkles actually show up. Oh well! This fabric will be good for the poptart designs, as well as all the adorable cupcake designs I have to go on birthday shirts. :)

Side note: According to blogger this is my 500th blog post. CRAZY! Thanks for reading!

Sweet Bunny shirt

Kylie picked this adorable Baby Bunny applique design from Planet Applique to put on her shirt.

I used a super soft minkee -- isn't it precious? I might have to make another one really soon based on Annaliese's reaction to it... :)

Play Food!

Last week Kathy surprised me by purchasing a set of play food designs for me (from Dee of Band to Bow/Nobbie Neez Kids). I've only made a couple things. They are SO CUTE and I'm anxious to tackle more!
First I made these poptarts:

Then I made these slices of pizza:

The design set came with pancake/syrup/butter, egg, bacon, doughnut, cookies, popsicle, hamburger and all the fixings, french fries, bread/jelly/peanut butter... so many fun things to make! You can see some of the designs on SWAK:
Breakfast set 1
Breakfast set 2
Dinner Set
I'll try to remember to update these links when the lunch and snack sets are available.

Aren't they fun??

Bowling towel

A WAY long time ago Carla asked me if I could replicate a hand towel she had seen with a bowling stick figure embroidery design on it. I searched high and low and could not find anything remotely close to it. Then mid-July I get an email from a site that had all their stick designs significantly on sale, and one reminded me of that bowling design... and what do you know, they had the exact one! Amazingly enough, even though months had passed, Carla hadn't given up on me. :)
Carla goes bowling with her husband, so I imagine this will be used often!

The "Bowler Jane" design is from EmbroideryDesigns.com. I added her name with Embird alphabet #8.

First Birthday Bib

Myra asked me to make a special bib for her granddaughter's first birthday! I used the applique 1 from GG Designs' Chubby Wubby Numbers, and stitched "Arianna" with the Itty Bitty font from 8 Claws and a Paw.

Are you ready for some football??

Dashiell is! The school colors of my alma mater, the University of Illinois, are orange and blue, so when I saw this shirt on clearance last winter I grabbed it for Dashiell (FYI those are navy stripes, not black). I recently got a new monogram set that I've been anxious to try, and this was the perfect canvas for it!

The "D" is from the football applique alphabet by Planet Applique. I used a suede material and think it turned out pretty neat!


Now Dashiell is ready for football season... except down here in FL with basic cable we don't get many Illini football games. And mommy doesn't like football. And daddy is too busy with grad school to watch it. Oh well, we can still show our loyalty... Go Illini!!

Baby Boy Gift Set

Tracy asked to make a bib/burp cloth set for a friend who recently had a little boy. She perused my Facebook photo albums and picked a monogram/color scheme that she wanted me to reproduce -- makes my job easy! :)

The monogram on the burp cloth is from the Dot Alphabet at Julia's Needle Designs, and I stitched "Owen" with Swirley font from 8 Claws and a Paw.

They've got spirit, how 'bout you?

Can you believe it's August 1?? School will be starting before we know it!
Carla's daughter Ella will be starting kindergarten this fall, so she asked me to make a couple shirts for her (and one for little brother Grant who will be going to preschool there as well). Their school colors are purple and yellow, mascot is a tiger, so we got to work creating two cute designs!

For the yellow shirt, Carla picked Embroidery Boutique's applique tiger design. I used Embird Alphabet #14 for the text.

For the purple shirt (and white for Grant) Carla picked Lynnie Pinnie's applique tiger design. I used Embird Alphabet #8 for the text.