Pretty sight

Yesterday during Sadie's nap, I got out my crochet project I have been working on a little bit when I have small amounts of time. It is going to be a granny square afghan. What I love about it is that I can do it in pieces. I was inspired by this lady and have been following her pattern for granny squares. Anyway, like I said, I was working on these pieces yesterday on the floor and got up to do something, and when I came back I saw them all sitting there with the natural lighting coming in the window. I just thought it looked so pretty that I took a picture. So that is the story behind the first picture.

Something that I have been doing too much of lately is browsing online blogs. There are so many awesome ones out there with such cute ideas for things that it is very addicting. I have way too many bookmarks on my toolbar than is good for me i think. Anyway, I found this tutorial and thought I would give it a try. The whole idea is to use a piece of clothing that is old or has a hole in it to make a new piece of clothing. But I didn't have any button up shirts of Rob's that he didn't wear, so I made this dress out of material that I got at DI. It turned out really cute!

After I cut out all the pieces (all 4 of them) I was picking up my scraps and I found this happy fish. I just thought it was cool. Maybe I will have to put a fish on the finished product. We'll see.

I obviously haven't hemmed it yet, but it looks cute on her! This was the first version of the fress. IT was way too small around the armpit area and I could hardly get it on her. It doesn't look too bad, but I'm sure it was very uncomfortable for her.

I did some altering and added some material on the sides under the armpit all the way down to the top of the pink belt thing. It was really annoying, but I just couldn't let all that material go to waste.

Here it is all fixed and still needing to be hemmed. But I think I will be making lots of these in the future now that I have my own pattern made and all the kinks worked out. What do you think, should I add a little stenciled fish on there?