Liam's Teepee

Like most children, Liam loves to play hide and seek, and fit himself into small spaces in closets or behind curtains. So I FINALLY made him something that he is very excited about! He calls it his "tent" and likes to play cars in it, or just hide and have me "try" to find him.



I got the pattern here, but made mine smaller as I used some fabric I had from Ikea sitting around, and not a bed sheet like the pattern calls for.




The pattern was great, and easy to follow. It helps to have something long to measure with, as that was the trickiest part of the whole pattern.




The beautiful thing is that when the teepee is not in use it can fold up pretty small and be tucked away!



Pretty good, and this project in total only cost around $15, depending on what materials you end up using! Well worth it if you ask me.

Playroom

Another room finished! This one is an area in the basement leading to the third bedroom (in the process of becoming my sewing room/Jake's office) and the laundry area. We decided it would make a great playroom for Liam.

Originally I wanted to do it all white, floors included. I am in love with the European designed white rooms. It turned out to be a little tough to do white flooring, as we would have had to paint a wood floor, and in the end would have been a little more work that we were up for at the time. We ended up doing the same flooring as the upstairs, and I do like the effect.



I found these baskets at Zellers to hold some of the smaller toys, but they didn't have a liner in them. These wouldn't have been too bad to make had I not wanted to save fabric and do just the band with the coloured fabric. They turned out, just don't look too closely :)



I love all this fabric, but the "Jacob Loves You" pillow is my favorite. It actually was a shirt that was given to me years ago, and I always wanted to make a pillow out of it. This was the perfect place for it!



And my favorite part of the whole room:


The pallet bed inspiration came from here, and the alphabet wall from here.

Toddler Backpack

I've been wanting a toddler sized backpack for Liam, but was unable to find any the right size, for the right price; or at least ones that I also liked the look of. Until I came across this pattern here.

This project was definitely my most difficult sewing project I have done to this date, as I finally learned how to sew with piping! Prior to this I had a tendency of just writing off any patterns with piping as being too difficult. I'm not going to lie, there were a few tense moments, but in the end I am pretty happy with how it looks! The tutorial was great, with good pictures and lots of detail, just what I needed. The backpack is not perfect, but Liam really doesn't care. Actually he doesn't really care much about the backpack at all yet, but once he realizes that he can use it to bring some of his much loved cars and trucks with him places I am sure he will warm up to it. I hope.



He's not really into posing with things that I make for him these days, I never did get a good picture of him in his owl costume, but here are some pictures to show the size of the bag: