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! Bears for Sale at the Village Baby
My bears are now for sale at The Village Baby in Brookline, MA.
The Wild West
Here is my submission to Month of Softies for August. The theme was “The Wild West.” I made this horse from wool tweed. I’ve been inspired lately by some lovely soft toys I’ve see with exposed seams (like Mama Duck and, of course, the beautiful toys by Tamar Mogendorff). The pattern for the horse came…
Mini Me
Here is my apron for Tie One On. The theme this month is “mini me” and the assignment was to make two apons – one for yourself and one for someone “small in your life.” The tops are strip pieced and the ties are made from long hemmed strips of the white fabric. I kinda…
Bears and Modhaus Boston
New bears. and the little girl on the back of the dress. There was an article in this morning’s Globe about modhause, a mid-century modern furniture and accessories store…in Boston! Charlie and I are always so frustrated reading Dwell and Modernism and Atomic Ranch because all the good stores are on the west coast. There…
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