Sweet Feet

 Anyone with the biggest foot aversion, cannot, cannot find Baby Feet problematic.
Just looking at the sweet little untried peds just makes you want to giggle.

 I can look at my Big Grown Up Children's tootsies now, and grin, thinking of the times that I tickled and smooched their little baby feet in utter mama rapture with the freshness and newness of baby hood.  It is no wonder that the most popular baby shower gift is booties, socks and shoes.  We just love to see the normal practical, in a diminutive size.

And of course, with a new set of tootsies in our family, we have managed to inundate this little sweetie with enough Foot Coverings to fill a drawer.  Literally.  She has oxfords, mary janes, chucks, robees, socks of every color and her beloved hand knitted ones from Auntie Elder/Admin.  In addition to new ones, Miss Viv has shared some of her fun ones as well, like the embroidered felt number at the top of this post.  Mimi brought her Anna Maria Horner pattern and fabric booties from her New Beginnings book Handmade Beginnings: 24 Sewing Projects to Welcome Baby, on the latest visit this past weekend.  Baby Girl, known as an accessoryalholic in a previous life, now finds all these teeny size embellishments, terribly fun.  Dressing her Baby Girl is like doll dressing to a very grown up degree.  And I love watching her pick out all the outfits and accessories to don onto this most patient of babies.

But when all is said and done, the most favorite of favorite, is her own sweet little feeties.
Grammy cannot wait to see where there will take her in the years ahead.....

Sigh....

Prayerful Productivity

My dear Crazy Dee had a triple (turns out quadruple) bypass today in the big city, far away from me.
I'm a pacer, a fiddler, a nervous nellie kinda gal when it comes to things out of my league.
If I could have walked to the big city to be with her, my adrenaline could have done it. But I was grounded here, in prayer warrior mode with more than a bit of wigglies going on.
So here was my day today while I prayed for CD and her crazy heart....

An Amy Butler little kimono top got cut out....

My third pair of AB booties for the childbirth conference next week...

Several Spitty Cloths....

A really fun appliqued Summer Bankie....

Some more work on the 2G's mama's apron repurposing...An old skirt and an even older pattern..(I believe it was one of my first solo patterns in the 70's..)

Actually, the Jitteries started last night when I decided that a discarded pair of shorts from Youngest Son might just make the perfect summer nap sack for yours truly...

And in between all this busy work, my heart hurt for my friend with a long road of recovery ahead of her...
I stared out my OPEN window this early spring day and felt renewed by the hope of the season and for the determination that I have to get her better and what that means...
Is she up to it?
Probably not today, but for all the tomorrows that Our Father has for her, she will be empowered by HIS help, for HIS work....

Be blessed, My Friend Dee.....

Boot(ie) Weather

In a scene repeated for the third time in two weeks, we once again embrace our Winterly Tools and fight the Gifts of Nature.
Hubby and I watched this amount start yesterday on our way home from Bloomington. Little did we know that when we said, in unison, Here it comes!, did we ever figure on 12 inches.
So.
It's here and once again I do what comes naturally...
OFF TO THE SEWING ROOM!
One more snowfall brings us closer to spring, Spring brings us closer to gardening and gardening makes me abandon the inside of my house for another few months until the heat of summer forces me indoors for respites.
Much sewing to accomplish and an Etsy shop to still start and more work on the book.
So snow on. (please forgive my selfishness)

Today's project:
Amy Butler's Cutie Booties.
Like most of Beloved Amy's patterns, I strongly desired more sketches for my poor non technical brain. But tis good practice for me to stretch it a bit every now and then.
Pretty, bright fabrics from Randi at Fresh Squeezed Fabrics made me forget the howling and blowing of snow off my roof outside my sewing room window. Brrrrrr.

Don't you love fun linings?

And here are the completed little Cutie Booties!
Adorable, huh?
(The second one was harder to do than the first. What?! Told you about that left brain situation I have)
Sunny, bright, fun addition to my growing inventory for the childbirth conference.

Unless I can be convinced otherwise.......