Mila's and Kate's Halloween Pillowcases

I love sewing holiday pillowcases for my grandchildren. I just finished the Halloween pillowcases for Mila and Kate.

Mila is getting the pumpkins and the owls are for Kate.

It's just the end of September, but the holiday fabrics are out. I need to go look for some Thanksgiving fabric now!

Cambria & Titan - Back to School Pillowcases

Jessica asked me if I would make her kids pillowcases for back to school. Her reasoning? It's a long time between the 4th of July and Halloween, and she wanted pillowcases for the time in between the two holidays. I was happy to oblige, although there is not a big selection in fabric for back to school.

 I took a big chance on Titan's. It was a panel for decorating, but its measurements were right, so I crossed my fingers and bought a panel.

 And I love how it turned out! This may be one of my all-time favorite pillowcases.

Cambria got a pink fabric with owls and school supplies on it.

Kate's Birthday Pillowcase

I absolutely LOVE the fabric that I used for Kate's birthday pillowcase!

Bright, cheerful, gaily colored birthday balloons!

Kyle's Mario Pillowcase

When she was here for my retirement party, Addie asked me to make her dad a pillowcase for his birthday as a surprise. She wanted a Nintendo one for him.

She gave me instructions to mail it to her and then she will give it to him on his birthday.

I finished it today and will pop it into the mail next week. I hope Kyle enjoys this surprise from his daughter and his mother!

Anna's Pillowcases

Since I was sewing pillowcases for Mila and Kate this spring, it was easy to add my student teacher's daughter, Anna, to the sewing list. She's four years old and has loved having pillowcases.

Today I made her one for the 4th of July and one for her birthday in early August.

Mila and Kate's Patriotic Pillowcases

I sewed Memorial Day/4th of July/Labor Day pillowcases for Mila and Kate this afternoon.

Kate's is at the top and Mila's on the bottom.

I do love sewing pillowcase sets for each grandchild!

Kate's Quiet Book

Kate's quiet book is done! I began in early January and have been working on it every Saturday. I am so pleased with how it turned out.

I could not find the matryoshka fabric I'd bought for her book even though I looked everywhere in my sewing things, so I went with some mischievous monkeys instead.

This page is a family favorite. My mom had the idea to add the dashed lines to show the bees' path so a part of her is in this book.

 The barn applique is new and adds a lot, I think.

 I put this page in Mila's book and Emily asked for it in Kate's (I saw the idea online and recreated it.)

 A page from one of our favorite childhood books.

 Next time I am going to find some bird appliques or clouds to add to this one.

 I drew the cattails; the dragonfly applique is new.

 This page takes FOREVER to make, but is worth the time.

 Those are earrings that Kate can wear.

 Cole requested this page - a connection to the family apple orchard.

 The rainbow is a new addition to this page.

Something else new that I tried was to color the velcro so that it wasn't just stark white patches on the pages. I think it blends in much better.

 As I was making the cover, I noticed that I was running short on thread.

 And sure enough, I ran out!

But I had another spool that was a very, very close shade, and it worked to finish the cover and make the pillow.

I can't wait to give this to Kate when she comes at the end of May!