Wonder Woman Tutu

My friend's son will be having a super hero themed costume birthday party next month. Even though my daughter is too young to really enjoy dress up (she'll be 11 months), I decided she needed a kick ass super hero costume. There aren't a whole lot of choices for a) babies and b) girls in the super-hero-costume category, but I did find a pretty cool wonder woman onesie at superherostuff.com. I realize I could have gotten her a boy's costume, but the feminist came out in me and I was determined to find a kick ass female super hero for Sylvie to dress up as, because, well, girl power!

Wonder Woman Onesie!

Since there was not a bottom to wear, and while Wonder Woman may have run around in the equivalent of a bathing suit, I would like Sylvie to be a little more dressed in public. Then, today while at Joann's buying more quilting fabric, I got into a conversation with a very nice woman working at the cutting counter who explained to me that I could make a tutu simply by cutting up tulle and tying it onto a elastic crocheted headband!  And - Sylvie's Spectacular Super Woman Super  Hero costume was born!

 Since Sylvie is only 11 months old, I used two yards of tulle, one yard medium blue, one dark blue, and a red headband. The headband was $1.50 and the fabric was $3.25 - how amazing and cheap is that!
Basic directions:

1. Cut up the tulle into strips (about 7ish inches wide, and maybe 2 feet long - I didn't measure any of this so this is a guess). 
2. Put the elastic headband around something (like a book, or 2-liter pop bottle) so that you can easily work with it.
3. Then, fold the tulle in half and pull a little bit of the folded side through the elastic, so that there is a little loop of fabric. 
4. Then, pull the rest of the fabric through the loop and pull tight.

Edit:  Here's the final result with the costume!

Quilting Frenzy!

Since I've been on a roll lately, I decided to finish up the quilt I'd planned on making for my mom. Then, I remembered I had a whole bunch of jelly rolls laying around and decided to do another one for me. I'm going to probably need to stop for awhile after this!!

Quilt for my mom

Quilt for me!

A Birthday Present "Value" Quilt

Since the semester is over and papers are all graded and in the system, I finally had enough time to finish the "birthday" quilt for my sister (her birthday is in March, so we'll call it the belated quilt). I got the fabric for this quilt in January and it's just been sitting around screaming at me to work on it for the past four months.

Finished quilt!

For this quilt, I used the Mediterranean Dream fabric by Simon and Kabuki, which I chose based on a color palette she sent me when I asked if she'd like a quilt. I thought I was never going to find anything like what she was looking for, and then this fabric pack came along.

Palette my sister sent me

Fabric I found!

I think I did pretty good hunting down that palette!  So far, I've only made patchwork quilts, so I wanted to try something new, but not so difficult that I would mess it up. I stumbled on "value quilts" in my googling, and decided to give that a try.  SewKatieDid has a great tutorial, if you are interested in making a value quilt. This is the end result:

So excited to be done, now I can start my next one!