I've been making a lot this week. My friend has two kids, and they both had birthdays last week. Her son turned 2 and her daughter turned 5. There was a big party where Scotty made the birthday girl cry by licking her cake. Sorry.
Anyway, I made little Devan a cape and it was so dang cute. You'll have to trust me because I have a bad habit of sending things off to their new homes without taking pictures. I used the cape pattern in Stitched in Time and it was fantastically easy and fast to do. I think it took about 30 minutes, start to finish. I couldn't drive to the store and back in that amount of time!
I used a beautiful dark aqua of Kona cotton fabric. Instead of a monogram, I used iron-on fabric paper and I found an image online of Speed McQueen (his favorite!) which I printed onto the fabric from my color inkjet printer. Unless there's some sort of copyright infringement issue with that, in which case, I have no idea what you're talking about. Also printed onto the iron-on fabric, in bold red letters, was "Super D", which I just did using my word processor. Cut it all out, ironed it all on. Two rows of thick red rick-rack (sp?) and a white flannel lining later and BAM! Cape is made.
For Cassidy, I made her this adorable little tote. (Photo credit and pattern both Melissa Majewski) Instead of a flower, I made a hot pink heart from this pattern and sewed it right on there. I lined it with a sweet fabric that had a white background and dark pink mod fowers and stars.
How beautiful is this picture??? (Photo credit and pattern from Creativeyarn)
I made it with a light pink cotton for the 'chains' and a white cotton flower with a dark pink button in the center.
I tucked the necklace into the tote with a stuffed bear and bunny (free pattern from here). It's really easy, unless you're me, in which case you will spend 80% of the 2 hours it takes you to make them yelling at knots in your embroidery thread. Another 10% of the 2 hours will find you trying to thread the needle. Everything else is cake.
Food, Home Maintenance, eCookbook and Gracie
13 hours ago
Are you not working anymore?? Because where do you find the time? I can barely take a shower each day - and you are cooking and crafting. *heavy sigh*
ReplyDeleteI have no clue how people learn to knit. It's like magic to me. My friend Kate knits really cool things and she promised to make Rowdy a sweater with an "R" on the back and she still hasn't. I think you need to harass her.
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oh man. The licking? Made me laugh out loud.
ReplyDeleteTra ~ I craft when I should be showering.
ReplyDeleteSusan ~ You know I tried! I really like her blog, as you can imagine...oh dear, another addiction!
Brit ~ You always laugh at my pain. It's like the very definition of true friendship! :P
And an update: Miss Cassidy loved her presents! When she opened the tote, she said, "I didn't know made *purses* too!" Which just cracked me up, because I've made Cassidy many things over the years. She brought it with her when she went out, so she could 'put candy in it'. *sigh* A girl after my own heart!