This fortnight has been a bit light on, due to Operation Renovation (is not a sensation) combined with an 8 day visit from Mr and Mrs S Snr. I had many many craft plans for this time (TWO BUILT IN BABYSITTERS OMG!) but M got sick, then I got sick, then I got sicker and... there was 8 days of small talk to be made with the Snrs. Then my trusty sewing machine got sick. She's better now, thankfully.
But here's what did happen:
- I made a dolly quilt and pillow for our niece for her 2nd birthday. Despite buying all the fabrics and notions, and preparing the fabric at least a month ago, I did not start it until her birthday was 10 days away. And they live interstate. Oh my.
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| I was doing okay with the quiltlet until I realised I needed to use the craft batting. And I had no idea how. I googled how, decided I didn't like those instructions and made it up. It worked fine. |
- I was steaming along until I started feeling tired (yo, 20 weeks pregnant, bite me) and M started screaming yesterday. Despite all the Daddy cuddles... the screaming didn't stop. Then my machine died. It was not a pretty afternoon... there was plenty of cursing followed by 'Mummy said 'Fudge', Millie.'
- Today I rang the Elna Australia hot line and politely asked them if they could tell me what might be wrong with my machine. They put me through to an absolutely delightful woman named Carol, who not only told me what was wrong, but also gave me plenty of tips and wanted to know all about Millie. I wanted to put her in my pocket and take her home with me.
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| Dolly quiltlet and pillowcase with matching pillow finished. Shazam! |
- I also went through my mending pile and turned a few too-short onesies into t-shirts for wearing over long sleeves. It's all about extending the wardrobe, if only to make me feel like she's actually worn some of these clothes. I'd put off doing it for months, but it only took me 10 minutes on the overlocker. Rock on, jersey fabric!
I simply cut the bodysuit bit off and overlocked the edges. Then they sat there for another week whilst I vowed to look up how to tidy up overlocking tails. I don't know if I did it right, but they'll hold...
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| This is a gorgeous Country Road onesie that Mr S bought for Millie when she was 8 weeks old. Despite being a 3-6mo size, the top still fits her fine and I get to pretend she's still a baby. |
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| See - overlocked! |
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| I also made Millie a new handbag. Every girl needs a handbag stash, right? I needed to practice zips, and Millie wanted to know how zips worked. Win/Win! (don't look to closely at the zip... I need more practice.) |
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| She loves it. |
- High on my list for Millie's room was some curtain tie-backs for her brand new curtains. Until now, we'd been using something that might have been kitchen twine, or some sort of canvas coloured bias binding. At any rate, some new ones were well overdue.
I didn't really have a pattern for this, so I made one up. Are you interested? I can do a post on it if you'd like.
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| Raspberry coloured corduroy with purple teeth... |
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| They match her curtains perfectly! |
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| Purple felt teeth... or pretty girly purple felt bunting. Whatever you prefer. I like to think they're like dinosaur teeth... RAWR! |
Also on my list for the next little while:
- Finish the gosh-darned kid's apron.
- Choose some fabric and make Millie her own apron. She's big enough to fit the pattern now and has recently been given a whole bunch of Millie-sized pots and pans... I think she'd really enjoy it.
- Finish the two-shirts-to-one maternity shirt. I need to research some more about stretch stitches that leave a good finish. Can any of you help?
- I've seen some awesome fabric at Spotlight that says to me 'Make me into a new handbag for yourself, Amy... do it!' Well ok then, I must.
- Make Mr S a little polar fleece 'sock' to slip over the end of his silk sleeping bag liner for hiking. To keep his delicate
size 13tooties warm in the remarkably cool weather that is Tasmania.
What have you been up to?
Link up your creative posts from the last little while - I'd love to see what you've been up to!
