Please Vote For My Spoony Flowers

I'm in a fabric designing contest, there are 7 pages of designs to vote on and I'm on the 6th page, the green one by royal forest....

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Raggedy Ann

This is my attempt to recreate the pattern on the dress of my beloved old Raggedy Ann doll. I think that the color schemes I have favored my whole life stem from this dress. They just make me happy!

Brown Dress

Elsie is a photo-taking maestro now! She took this picture of me in a dress I made last week. I really love this pattern and I think I will be reusing it again and again.

spoon flower fabric contest

For a spoonflower contest, in which the goal is to incorporate spoons and flowers into a fabric design.

Elsie's Picture

My four year old took this picture of me and my husband this morning. I was pretty impressed!

Landmark

I'm halfway through my beginner's upright bass book and I just learned a song called "Bile 'Em Cabbage Down". Pretty exciting, right? What does it mean? I don't know, but it sounds like a great one to bust out at parties. "Hey Mary, do you know "Bile 'Em Cabbage Down?" "Of course I do!"

Some of the others in my repertoire:
Rosin Rap
Teeter Totter
Tribal Lament
Pepperoni Pizza
Hot Cross Buns
4th Finger Marathon
Texas Two-String
Hop Scotch
Jumping Jacks
For Pete's Sake
Olympic Challenge
Olympic High Jump
Rolling Along

I will play any of these for your party for the right price

I can't believe this exists.

bird repeat

Lady Wisdom

Prints available here: http://mary2.imagekind.com/RoyalForest

For Anna

I made this for my dear friend Amy's baby Anna who is due very soon. It is the same dress and bonnet pattern that I used for my neice a couple of years ago.

Fabric Design

Maybe I shouldn't call these fabric designs, since I rarely ever have them printed on fabric and make anything out of them. Maybe I should call them "potential fabric designs"?

Open

Psalm 57

Let your mercy come like spring
To the heart who trusts in you
I will hide beneath your wings
From the evil that pursues
In you my soul takes refuge

I cry out to God most high
For you alone can give me rest
And when the lions prowl outside
You send your love and faithfulness
In you my soul takes refuge

Time to come awake my lyre
Get up off the floor my soul
Give it all it's what you've got
Give it all it's what you've got
To the one who makes you whole
In you my soul takes refuge

They have spread a net for my feet
I was bowed down in distress
They have dug a pit in my path
But they have fallen in themselves

Puppies

My litter.

Note to self: do not use eyeliner and eyeshadow on kids' faces again. It DOES NOT come off easily and it burns the eyes!

Ladybug Picnic

Hand Heart Hold

It was time

1/2 size Palatino upright bass

Heart Dress

I made another dress.

Don't you love the little matching pig-tail holders?

You know you do!

Goofing around with my designs

Lion Overalls

I made these for my little nephew, David Trygg. This awesome fabric is by Rachel Galloway of Mamma Made Designs. See her version here.

I think that the reason why people don't get excited about shopping for little boys is because you rarely see any kind of creative, adorable fabrics and clothes like this for boys. I mean, you can only get excited about so many baseball shirts and trucks.