Blogger's Choice Fat Quarter Bundle

Have you heard about the Blogger's Choice Fat Quarter  Bundle Challenge? It's going on over at Quokka Quilts and it's so much fun! You have to pick out 16 fabrics (full rules on the Quokka Quilts blog) from the Fat Quarter Shop and submit them to be judged. If you win, you get a half yard of each fabric!

I'm currently picking out fabrics for a new project anyway, so this totally motivated me to get a little more organized about it.

Here they are:

1. It's a Girl Thing Gray Doily Dance Yardage 

2. Bella Solids Aubergine Yardage

3. Bella Solids Marine Yardage

4. Echo Gray Aneta Yardage

5. Bella Solids Silver Yardage

6. Nursery Basics Sky Speckle Yardage

7. Sweet on NYC Grey Swirl Yardage

8. Sketch Pink Screen Texture Yardage

9. It's a Girl Thing Bloom Play Dot Yardage

10. It's a Girl Thing Blossom Disco Dot

11. Echo Gray and Purple Choma Yardage

12. Domestic Bliss Aqua with Cream Beaded Curtain Yardage

13. Terrain Foliage Seedpod Yardage 

14. Summer House Robin's Egg Blue Twinkle Yardage
15. Terrain Mist Leaves Yardage

16. Sherbet Pips Pink and Grey Play Dot Yardage

Let me know what you think!

Back To School Dress {The Great Pinterest Challenge}

Have you heard of The Great Pinterest Challenge? I read about it on one of my daily read blogs, Honeybear Lane. You pick out one of the [many] things you've pinned on Pinterest, recreate it, then enter it in one of four categories (Recipes, Sewing, Home Decor/DIY, or General Crafts).

Then Facebook users vote on the pictures and you can win a really great prize package!

I love that it provides some motivation to get a project done! As soon as I read about it, I knew exactly what I wanted to do. Sewing, of course. I had recently found this dress:

and thought it would be so cute to make for Kiki for her first day of preschool.

And here it is:

Obviously, I made a few changes. I prefer peasant dress-style to pillowcase dress-style. I like that the sleeves give Kiki a bit more coverage when it gets colder. Also, the apple print I found had some hot pink in it, which I really liked because it added a little spunk to the dress.

And, I had to make a matching headband!

The deadline for submissions in the contest is tomorrow, August 19th. But I think it may be a monthly thing, so if you want to submit something, you can always try in September.

Even if it doesn't win, I think it will be really fun for Kiki to wear when she goes off to school! (But I still want to win--please go vote on Honeybear Lane's Facebook page (You must first "like" Honeybear Lane, then you can vote by "liking" my picture) starting Monday!)

I'll be linking up here!

Two Challenges

So now that Christmas is over, it's time to organize all our new junk, right? I'm taking Toni's 21 Days to Getting Organized Challenge to help me get my house in shape! You can too, just simply hope over and link up!

And...while we're at it--I linked up my Skirt-to-Purse project over at Sew Dang Cute's Crafting with the Stars Challenge. Check it out!