Rainbow crayon roll

Well, with Christmas quickly creeping upon us I am completely overwhelmed. Our own little Christmas will be celebrated Sunday.....as in 2 days from now. We will be leaving for Michigan the following weekend and we wanted to have time for Mims to open and play with her gifts before we toss her in the car for the 7 hour trek. I still have much work to do and hopefully everyone wll cooperate in order for me to finish. I have to finish Mims fabric dollhouse, a car playmat made out of Michael Miller's Merryville fabric with the roads on it, and PJ's for "Christmas Eve".

It will be nice to finish up our own stuff because then I have an even longer list for next week before we leave. I have several orders to fulfill and several gifts for the extended fam to complete.

Here is the rainbow crayon roll I made for Mims. Not sure I will make another as when you throw 15 extra seams in it tends to bend and turn a bit. This was also my first crayon roll attempt. I am definitely not a quilter....no patience for that beautiful craft. But I guess I should never say never.

---dana---

My first crafty post

I am relatively new to the blogging world, and I have been trying to keep one about my daughter the last couple of months as we live no where near any relatives and thought it would be a good way fo all of them to keep updated on little miss Amelia. Since starting that I have become completely addicted to reading other's blogs, mostly crafting or sewing blogs. I immediately thought, why couldn't I do that? I am super crafty and have the same musings of a lot of the blogs I read. So here I finally am starting my super crafty blog.

I named the blog beStitched because most recently a friend and I started a business in our small town of Lake Geneva, WI. We are currently sewing boutique style children' s items. Including, but of course not limited to, dresses, skirts, pants, booties, appliqued onesies, bibs, burp cloths, hooded towels, mother daughter aprons, and any other idea that sparks our interest......which happens to be a lot!

I am starting the blog (finally) today because I am on the verge of finishing a cute little portable fabric dollhouse for my friend's daughter's 2nd birthday party this weekend. It was relatively easy (just a few minor setbacks along the way) and I thought I would share some pictures. I loosely followed the tutorial from UK lass in US and can be found here: http://uklassinus.blogspot.com/2008/08/fabric-dollhouse-tutorial.html

---dana---