My most amazing mother!

When we were in California last month, I took a few things with me so that I could enlist the help of my mom, who is very talented when it comes to sewing, or drawing, or cooking, or gardening, or basically anything really.

I had bought a pattern for this really cool fabric ring stacker for babies. I wanted to make it for Lexie's first birthday, but when reading the pattern, I could tell it was a little complicated. I also took some fabric that I wanted to use to make a skirt for Lexie to wear for her birthday party.

The thing about the skirt was, I didn't have a pattern. There are a few tutorials online for making a twirl skirt, but none of them were quite what I wanted. All I had was a picture of what I wanted, and so I showed my mom.

We took a couple of Lexie's skirts, and used them to size the pattern, and she drew a pattern for us to work from.

I could MAYBE do that, but it probably wouldn't end up fitting her once I was finished. This is why I wanted my mom to do it.

The pattern she made for the skirt

The pieces sewn together, and ready for the elastic

The finished product, isn't she amazing? It's really all in the details, and she's a perfectionist that always gets them just right.

another angle

I didn't take any pictures of the process of making these rings, but let me tell you, it took both of us at least 6 hrs together working on it to get it done. It would have taken me at least a week by myself. We were lucky and had my dad around to help out with the girls too. I LOVE the look of these and Lexie likes playing with them too....I just hope they'll last for a really long time. They look so cute stuffed too, even cuter than they look in this picture.

So, I just wanted to give a huge hug to my mom, and tell her that I think she's amazing, and utterly talented at so many things. Thanks for passing along your knowledge and hopefully when I grow up I can be as good at these things as you are, and pass it along to my daughters too.