Uppity-Mama

Back to School Backpack

Ramona came over to my house the other day and taught me how to make this adorable backpack! It's just the right size for kids, not too big and not too small, with padded straps and a little zipper pouch attached. She is going to be teaching a class at the store on September 14th and 21st, from 6-9pm.  Get in on it!

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Alissa is having her 2nd annual fundraiser for Action Kivu, a non-profit group that helps congolese women and children.  There are awesome prizes to be had for donating, including a fat quarter pack of the entire line of Happy Mochi Yum Yum donated by Sew Modern. There are also hard to find Heather Ross fabrics, as-yet-unreleased Denyse Schmidt fabrics, a quilt by Anna Maria Horner and more.  Please give to this incredibly worthy cause and get yourself entered to win!

  

 
 
 
 
 

Happy Mochi Dress for Mira

Every August 4th we celebrate the day Mira came into our family.  We go to dinner at Gyu Kaku and sometimes she gets a present.  Past presents have been little things I picked up in Korea when I got her.  Now that she's 8, I'm out of those little gifties so I made her a dress and promised her her own sewing machine when I get a new one for the shop.  She was very excited about the machine and I could hardly get her to stop moving for these pictures!

The fabric is Happy Mochi Yum Yum in India Blue with Fiji in blue for the tie.  I used McCalls pattern 5419.