Preemie sleepers

Here are a couple of sleepers I made for some sweet babies who are yet to be born. I used the pattern from here, changing it by lengthening the torso and eliminating the legs. I used my new KAM snap press to apply the little pink snaps, and the trim for the neck and sleeves was heart printed FOE. Makes me want another baby! These were really quick and easy. Sewing time was about 30 minutes total. The longest part was applying the trim around the neck and cuffs. I made a newborn size, so they may have to grow a bit or they may fit just right.

First Quilt Block

Here's my quilt block. This is my very first quilt block ever. It needed to be made of red, white and black fabrics on any kind for the Quilt for MS that AMITE is putting together. It seems that the magic of making blocks is in careful measuring, accurate cutting, and sewing in a straight line. I need to make a few more of these and then send them around the world to be added with the others.

I enjoyed putting all the pieces together. Since we homeschool we are always playing with "pattern blocks" and tangrams. So I had a basic idea how the pieces would work together, I just haven't ever SEWN the pieces all together. There are only 2 places where it doesn't perfectly match up, but after consulting with some quilters I know what to do to fix that now and how to help it not happen again. Now that I know how to do this I think I'll attempt to help the homeschool sewing class learn how to cut and piece. There's a first time for everything and if they are learning to sew it would probably be easier at 9 and 10 years old than waiting until after 35.