my own superheroes!

Made reversible superhero capes for my kids! My little boy's is superman/batman and the girls all got an initial and a different logo (superman, heart and princess crown). Doing them reversible was a great idea They were so patient while I was making them and have had so much fun playing with them.

I looked online for some ideas but finally ended up holding a piece of newspaper against my little boy's back and trying to find the perfect length and cut. For safety reasons (and so I wasn't tying strings every time they wanted to put them on) ended up doing a velcro attachment in the front.

vintage baby quilt

I saw this darling design at quilt shop down in St. George a couple months ago out shopping with my sister. It was fun and super easy to make! I used an Oz for Moda charm pack (5 inch squares) and cut each of the squares in 4. I'm determined that this quilt would be the perfect use for my scraps so next time I'm going to try and do this with what's already leftover in my sewing basket!

Basically you make a fabric sandwich to start out - take the back fabric, turn it upside down on your work surface and tape the corners down to hold it in place. Use a light spray of adhesive and then lay the batting on top. Another light spray and put on the top background fabric. It's a little tricky with the fabric being sticky but make sure there aren't any bumps and both fabric pieces and the batting are lined up correctly. Then take a quilting pencil and draw a grid on the fabric and position the squares evenly. After the squares were arranged (my 3 year old did this part and I just fixed a few to balance out the colors) just a small dot of adhesive (or even elmers glue) will hold the squares in place while you sew a grid over the whole quilt. Put on a binding, throw it in the wash to fray the edges and wash out the glue and you're done!

Mine is about 40" finished.