Auburn Baby Shoes

I actually made these little shoes a while back ago, and I had plans to post them right when college football was first starting. Procrastination gets the best of me sometimes. I made these for my cousin's baby girl. My cousin and his wife met each other while attending college at Auburn University. Needless to say, they are huge Auburn fans.

I wanted to make something fun for their daughter when football season rolled around, but it was painful for me to use these colors.
See, I'm a University of Alabama fan. Auburn is our biggest rival. But I set my color pride aside and brought out the orange and the blue. It wasn't so bad, and I think they turned out quite cute.


I love the felt buttons. It's almost like they were made just for these shoes. I was at the store looking for regular plastic buttons, and I came across these.

Stay tuned for more Auburn attire.

Bitty Booties

My cousin and his wife had a baby girl back in February, and I made these little shoes for her. I've been enjoying hand embroidery lately, so I wanted to incorporate some of that in these shoes. I found a picture of a mama and baby bird online, so I embroidered them onto the felt. Drawing the mirror image for the matching shoe was a bit tricky, but I got the hang of it.
Scroll down to the bottom of the post for the link to the Heather Bailey's website where you can get the pattern for these shoes.


First, I traced the patterns onto the felt. I also flipped these patterns over so there would be a left and right shoe.

Then I stitched a blanket stitch along the center of the top of the shoes and hand embroidered the bird patterns onto the front of the shoes.

The shoe was really starting to come together after I stitched the back together.

Attaching the bottom of the shoe to the top part was a little tricky, but once I finished pinning it together it was easy to stitch.


...And here is the shoe almost finished, turned inside-out. I know my stitching looks horrible from the inside.


So, here is the finished shoe... oh, wait! It needs something else...

A tiny bow on the back.

For a tutorial, visit Heather Bailey's website here.

Argyle Ornaments

I wish I had enough time on my hands to give everyone a hand-made gift for Christmas. I guess I could if I started now for next year. I saw these ornaments on another blog, and I immediately knew who I wanted to make these for. I have a couple of friends that are starting a "craft tree." All of the ornaments on it will be hand-made. I know these will be so cute on their tree.


These are fairly easy to make, and I'm excited to start doing more hand embroidery in the future. I made an extra one to hang on my tree, and it looks really cute.

If you want to make one of your own, you can find the directions and patterns on the So September blog.