Crinkle Teething Cloth

Aria is a teething machine. She will gnaw on anything and everything to satiate her teething urges. Tonight, she made a break for some shoes... luckily, her big brother intervened in time and put the shoes out of her reach.

I call her my little meow-meow also.. because she has a tendency to kitty scratch everything. We call it her scratch test before she attemps to put something in her mouth.... not so great for our leather couch :-/

Well, I was looking around online for tutorials on how to make a crinkle cloth. I've seen them in department stores but, call me cheap, I didn't want to fork over $15 for a 5"x5" piece of fabric with ribbon. I had enough supplies at home that I could make it myself. The thing is, I didn't know what to use as the crinkle 'material.'

I came across a great tutorial while searching some blogs (Crinkle Square Tutorial) and made it tonight.

Here's my take:

I can't wait to let Aria play with it tomorrow. She fell asleep for the night before I was able to complete it.

Also, I want to add.. I recommend using a teflon presser foot on the sewing machine because the plastic gets stuck under a metal presser foot.. as well as increasing your stitch length.

Dusted Off The Sewing Machine...

It has been way too long! Amiright or amiright?

Well, a few updates since my last post. My family relocated to the peninsula (San Francisco Bay Area). We've been here a tad over a month and are enjoying it--traffic, fog and all.

It was my first full-time semester at ASU and I will be graduating next semester! Woo-woo! Big celebrations are in order!

As you can imagine, I have not had time to devote to crafting because of the hectic pace things have been moving.

Though, I got to do some scrap pages between my last post and now. Some of the pages need a few minor additions before I'll declare them complete. But I am pretty sure that will be done in the next week or so. And when that happens, I'll blog about that then.

But, I got a chance to break out my sewing machine which has been sitting dormant for about a year. My first project was making pajama pants for Cassius. I didn't get around to photographing that yet. And, I tried to make some pajama pants for Aria but didn't really do a good job in measuring for diaper allowance... Once I finish my pj pants for Aria round 2, I'll add those.  But, I did happen to make a cute pair of shoes for her.

I got the pattern online for free and it was actually on the Michael Miller website.

She seems to like them :) They're made out of faux suede with a fabric lining (I think the fabric is MM... I forget).

Anyway, without further ado...