Book of Numbers - now in the shop!

Surprise! 

 I had my book of numbers printed so it is now available for purchase in my etsy shop. 

 I am very happy with the way it turned out! Now if I can just get my act together on the color book (yes there is one of those coming too!)

 And some new garland is up -- yeah!

Alright back to life... it's been a LONG week already... hope yours is better than mine!

Book of Numbers Tutorial

For tutorial go here.

Book of Colors Tutorial

For tutorial go here.

I'm Guest Posting at Sew HomeGrown today

I'm guest posting over at Sew HomeGrown for Jessica today.

I'm sharing a tutorial on how to make your very own book of colors-

come check it out! 

Book of Numbers

So one project kept me busy the ENTIRE time that I was gone... it might have been slightly ridiculous... I wanted to make a number book to match the color book.  It was fun to make but I didn't expect it to be quite so time consuming.

I went from 1-10 and showed each number 5 ways. The 1, one and roman numeral are all painted

The hands are embroidered (my own patterns) and the dots are felt appliquéd on

Here's a shot of all of the pages

I am in LOVE with it though I am completely done with making books and long term projects in general and I am happy to say as of this last weekend I finished all of my long term/ongoing projects so I am really happy to have some 'relaxing' time. We'll see how long it lasts!
I am also excited to tell you that there will be a tutorial out for this in April so if you want to make one for yourself and can wait that long I will show you how!

Color Book and Smelly fish

I finished Micah's Color Book. Which has been on my long term to do list forever -- it really wasn't in my plans to make it now but I had time to raid Mums scrap bags so it moved itself to the top of the list! Mum tried to show me paper piecing which is really cool... but I ended up trying to use too many different pieces and being new to the process I ended up being lazy and gave up.

Here's all of the pages before I put the book together

And here it is put together. It's turned out pretty large I think it's about 7x8" and somewhere between 2-3" thick.
I embroidered the front page for texture and hand stitched each page to the cover.
I LOVE the way the spine turned out!
The color names are freezer paper stenciled
And I tried to do something different and funky with each patchwork page
I also tried to have some sort of texture fabric on each page.

I am really happy with how it turned out... especially since I didn't start this with any sort of plan I just let it evolve as I worked on it.
So I realized yesterday that I hadn't shown you all this awesome hat Sherie knit. Micah has the coolest aunt!
I mean who doesn't need a fish eating their head?
I think the one above will go in his photo album!
And this one is Ubers favorite. He's not super steady in his bumbo seat yet his daddy's been working on it with him... don't worry he is heavily supervised when we put him in it - Micah not uber... though I do tend to supervise his dad too!