Yes, I know..I did not published anything since quite a long time… I am so sorry.. but well I have to say I have an excuse… but I am not going to talk about it … yet..

At this moment, I wanted to share with all you how my little baby is becoming a toddler! She is starting to walk!!

Quite good, isn’t it?? She started 3 weeks away.. till now she has still not made big improvement, she just makes a few steps from time to time.. but it is so awesome! And we have no hurry at all!

I will keep on sharing her improvements with all you!

Have a nice week!!

This days had been reaaally cold here! I think that we just had a maximum of -5ºC on the lasts 15 days!! Hard to believe, isn’t it? So it has been hard to go to promenade, it has been like an adventure!. I was completely concerned about: is my baby getting cold, is she to hot?? And I had also discovered how difficult is to put winter clothes to your baby! You cannot imagine how much my baby hates it! And had you ever tried to put some gloves to your baby?.. The one that has succeeded, please, give me a clue!!!… Well, in conclusion, I cannot imagine who has been the clever one that thought a baby is able to put her fingers inside the holes of a glove!

After thinking a bit on it, I decided I could make better gloves or mittens to my baby girl.

First important thing: a baby barely needs gloves with fingers. Mittens are fairly better!

Second important thing: baby clothes should be extremely easy to put on!

Third important thing: even you make the perfect mittens, be sure your baby will lern how to take them off! So it is necessary to put a ribbon from one glove to the other. This ribbon will go inside the jacket from sleeve to sleeve, so, even if the baby succeeds to take off the mitten, the ribbon will kip it hanging from the jacket.

So here I show a couple of solutions I found could be useful. At the end of the post I will tell you wich one I found to be more useful.

Do you like this mittens?

I will explain you how to make the elastic version.

{Material }

- Fabric of two coordinated colors.
- Fleece or polar fabric for the lining.
- A piece of elastic trim, 0,2 inches (0.5 cm) wide.
- A 1 yard long ribbon.

{How to make the pattern}

There are two methods. Either you take a glove from your baby, you put it on a paper and trace it with a pen. Make the wrist wider.

The other option is to put your baby’s opened hand into a paper and trace it with a pen, without marking the fingers.

On my case, the glove’s option has been much more easy!

{Method to follow}

First step) Cut your pattern and trace it twice in each of the coordinated fabrics and 4 times in the lining fabric.

Second step) Cut the fabric pieces, with a 1/4 inches (0.5 cm) of seam allowance.

Third step) Each of the mittens is formed by: a piece of external fabric in one of the coordinated colors two pieces of lining fabric, and another piece of external fabric on the other coordinated color. You should decide wich of the two external fabrics will cover the upper part of your baby’s hand and wich the internal part. Cut a piece of elastic trim 3/8 – 1/2 inches (1.5-2 cm) shorter than the mittens wide on the wrist. Sew it on the reverse of the fabric that you had decided will cover the upper part of the hand. Sew the trim stretching it to cover the entire width of the piece. If you have a sewing machine, use a zig-zag stitch.

Fourth step) Put the two external pieces of each glove together, right sides together. Pin them. Sew following the mark. Turn the mitten to the right side.

Fifth step) Make the same for the linning. This time do not turn it.

Sixth step) Put the lining inside the glove.

Seventh steo) Turn the seam allowances of the different mitten’s layers in the space between the external layer and the lining layer. Pin it. Add the ribbon that will maintain the two gloves together.

Eighths step ) Sew along the mitten’s wrist. You can use a blanket stitch.

That is all!! You have a beautiful gloves for your baby!!

And now, I have to recognize that I had to make some modifications to this mittens. I needed them to be much more wider to be able to put them into my baby’s hands.. not because they were to small, but try to put them on a moving baby!!

On my second trial I changed the elastic trim and repeated this side of the glove, making this piece much more wider on the wrist. I added a strip of fabric wich passes through a fabric ring and has some velcro to regulate the wrist width.

If the velcro is fastened off the mittens are much more wider, so it gets easy to put them on. When the velcro is fastened on, the wrist gets really tight so it gets difficult to lose them.

Hope you liked them and have a really nice cold week!

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As I said on my post Quilting a patchwork quilt for babies, before starting to quilt the beautiful quilt my mother has done to my daughter, I’ve been practicing the free motion quilting.

Having this objective in mind, I started reading some posts from Leah Day’s blog. It is so great, I really recommend you to read it! I bought a book about free motion quilting that Pepa from el Talleret de la Pepa recommended me. And finally I read too Scandinavian Stitches, What a wonderful book that I still don’t own..hehe..(you can take a look on it with amazon’s preview!).

Well, with all this information, my free motion quilting accessory for my sewing machine and some ideas in mind, I’ve started to practice.

First I made this little cushion. Do you like it? I really love it!! I’ve used some little fabric scraps to make the little quilted flowers.

The cushion I made with the free motion quilting accessory for my sewing machine

A detail of the cushion

A zoom on two of the little flowers of the cushion. Have you seen how small are the little round shapes I quilted?

A last zoom to one of the little flowers

I also made this little panel which is not as beautiful as the cushion but that technically is much more difficult:

And last but not least, some panels I made for my daughter’s room. I believe they are so cute! They have some litte felted animals appliqued and a lot of details made with buttons and hand embroidery. Do you like them?

They are not super perfect, but at least they are colorful and really cute, isn’t it?? I love them..(jeje..)

Do you want to see the view I see from my window? We are at -8 º C! And it is expected that in all week the temperature will not be higher than -9ºC -7ºC -8ºC, lol .. In life I had lived this!

Well I wish you a happy weekend cold snap!

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