At one of our Sewing Club meetings way back in April, Gina presented a small scissor/accessories holder. One day I surprised myself and made one for my cross stitch scissors, needles and threader. Then I thought I should have one to coordinate with the cell phone holder that Kathy made me that I love to use with my Adobe CCS charts (so beautifully clear on my cell phone). I asked her if she had any fabric remnants, which she did and generously gave to me to make my coordinating scissor holder. Thanks Gina for the pattern and inspiration and Kathy for the fabric. Basically it starts with a quilt sandwich in a bit of an odd shape; then it's folded and stitched along the edge to hold the sides of the pockets closed. A great quick and easy project. A friend at the lake saw it and wants me to make one for her.
This Birthday/Celebration banner will be Emelie's birthday present in October. I hope she enjoys using it for her family. I'm pretty sure that the machine embroidery font I used was from FunStitch.com called Kiddy Applique. I put batting between the flags and just sewed them wrong sides together, then used pinking shears on the edges. I used grosgrain ribbon to string the flags by just folding it in half over the tops of the flags and top stitching it down.
The larger of these Christmas stockings will go to an organization that is collecting them for our US troops. The smaller one was a prototype and turned out too small, so I'm not sure what will happen to it. I thought the fabric was cute when fussy-cut.
This is a rather plain baby towel that I made for the granddaughter of some friends at the lake. The baby was there when we got to the lake, so I borrowed a sewing machine and went shopping for a towel. No embellishment due to the lake of my usual resources.
In July Kathy and I took another basket weaving class at the Anacortes Senior Center. The shorter basket is mine, and the taller one is Kathy's. It's amazing how different each one in the class turned out.
Time for some updates. In July I made a couple more tissue box covers. One is for the bathroom at the lake, and the other is a thank you gift for my niece, Kim. It is made with fabrics that Phyllis used in a quilt she made for Kim.
Iris arrived full of mischievous plans and non-stop chatter! LOL She thought she and I should have a sewing competition involving embellishing jeans jackets. She wanted to make one for Sonja, so I made one for Julia. Sonja loves the Frog and Toad books, so that became our theme. The one Iris made for Sonja has different buttons sewn here and there on it representing one of the stories. I put a butterfly on the shoulder of Julia's because she liked the one I had on my shirt.
