I received this lovely little package from Fiona. We did a little swap for her lion pin cushion and she sent along some adorable printed fabric and woven cherry ribbon and…real wool blanketing! It is so thick and soft I couldn’t believe it. Her cats made from this material must be really sturdy and so…
Archives for August 2005
White Fuzzy Bear #2
I made this fuzzy bear as a special order for a colleague of Charlie’s. I think she bought it as a baby shower gift. She looked at my photo album and picked this one and I made another just like it. It was sort of weird to replicate a bear I’ve made in the past….
Needle Case
Because I didn’t participate in back-tack the first time around (I didn’t have a blog yet), I don’t have much in the way of creative notions holders. I was sorely lacking a needle case, especially since a few weeks ago I moved all my sewing supplies into the new sewing box that Charlie got me…
Dolly Purse
Last night I finally had some crafting energy and made this dolly purse. At the top of the head there’s a button and when you open it up you can store all your treasures inside. The pattern came from A Treasury of Needlecraft for the New Baby which I’ve posted about before. Here are some…
ATC swap and a neat book
At the library the other day I discovered a children’s book I’d never seen before – “Bembo’s Zoo: An Animal ABC Book” by Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich. The author is originally from Brazil. All the illustrations in the book are made up of the letters in the word they illustrate. The only colors used…
Oven Mitt
Inspired by this these beautiful oven mitts, I took out my new Denyse Schmidt Quilts book and made an oven mitt. Charlie helped me pick out the vintage fabric for the outside and the white canvas lining. I enjoyed machine quilting it, too. I need to add a loop on one end so that I…
Kangaroo
I finished the kangaroo from the Mabs Tyler book. She is made of wool felt and sewn on the machine. I made her a little garland of felted beads with seed beads on them, inspired by the garland here. Her joey is also wool felt and is hand sewn with embroidered details. He can either…
Fabric
Lovely brown vintage-look fabric with apples and pears. Eiffel tower fabric that will make a lovely dress for a bear and some awesome polka dots. Look at that black and white one! This one is a larger print. I think it looks like an abstract cut paper collage. I think that one on the right…
ATCs, a new bear and a big box of scraps
Over the weekend I got a start at making some Artist Trading Cards (ATCs). I had a lot of fun cutting the selvedges off some of my fabric and incorporating them into designs with dots and birds. These are the two that I came up with. Since The Village Baby bought all my bears yesterday…
Yipee!
My bears are now for sale at The Village Baby in Brookline, MA.