The Quilts of The Great American Teach-In

Yesterday I finished up the second quilt for the second teacher in Jessica's class.  Both panels were printed by Spoonflower.  The first was my radial gradient attempt.  That didn't work out so well and the gradient was lost in a sea of dark navy and purple.  They agreed to reprint it with a solid background for me which while I was terribly disappointed I was grateful to them.  The first was such a mess I was certain I couldn't use it, but the waste not want no person in me decided I should try to salvage the first for the teacher's aid.  That way no matter what happened to the second panel in shipping at least I would have one quilt as I promised the children.

I appliqued a pieced block of the school right over the owl.  It took rather a lot of time to get it just right, including but not limited to the hand stitched playground you see above, so this has a children's novelty backing.

The second one arrived just before I could affix the binding on the first, sadly I was rather burned out at that point so all I could think was UGH more work!  The solid background was darker than I thought it would be.  I had been shooting for a light blueish teal and ended up with more of a primary blue.  I'm so glad I kept it light so the owl would be clear.  I hand quilted around the outlines of the owl which gives him a bit of a fuzzy look.

As I only had one yard of the flannel I'd hoped to use as backing I went ahead and did a diamond on the back.  While neither of the quilts from Spoonflower were what I was looking for the children's crayon art work came out beautifully and I love that it's completely washable.  If I find myself making another quilt of this type I will certainly refer Spoonflower.  Multi color gradients could print quite nicely but a range of a single color I would not recommend.  The owl's eyes are a brown black radial gradient and those turned out just fine.

I'm all done shopping and nearly finished wrapping, and the cold front has just made it's way here, so I'm ready to settle in with a cup of hot coco.  From our home to yours, we wish you a joyous and peaceful holiday.

Spoonflower Order Placed

Yesterday I sent off my first order for Spoonflower, a custom fabric manufacturer.  Perhaps some of you may remember I was making the quilt from the children's artwork, and I decided to have it custom printed on fabric?

Well let me start by saying the world of custom fabric is amazing in how freeing it is.  Sashing?  It can be random, tilted, multicolored, you dream it you can have it!  Once I got past the tracks of my own metal blocks to realize making your own fabric is like flying.  Okay, maybe walking instead of being stuck on a train.

The owl contained hereon is made up of all the children's names, I transformed the lines I drew of the owl to make them that way.  ALL copyrights for original artwork belong exclusively to the children, but that owl is mine.  Don't you just love him?  I kicked down the resolution as well as blacking out the children's names for privacy but you can still see the overall appearance.

Turn around time is about 10 days so I'll be posting later on how everything printed out.

A Quilter's Cookbook

I just went over to the Quilting Gallery.  They are putting together a Quilter's Cookbook full of quilts and recipes just right for the busy distracted person in all of us.  I added my Red a White Chili, a yummy treat that I feel is truly an expression of myself.  It's a great fix it and forget it recipe. Why don't you go other there and join in the fun?

The Great American Teach In

I've been busy planning and working on what I would do at my daughter's school for the Great American Teach In. The Teach In invites family members and adults in the community to come in and share with the class what they do and why school is so important, you're allowed 15-20 minutes depending on the school, and while I thought perhaps my own 15 minutes wouldn't be enough it turned out to be the exactly the right amount of time.

I was certain a quilt with the children's original artwork was the answer. When I was in first grade I wanted to be an artist. I was discouraged by one of my elders because "there's no money in it". But in reality art is everywhere. It's in nearly everything we see and touch. All carefully designed and planned by more different job types than I can think of let alone count. So that's what I wanted to teach to the children in my daughter's VPK class. Art is everywhere and many jobs require you to be creative. So you can grow up to be an artist!

What I found upon arriving at the school was a great class filled with smart amazing children all eager to talk to the adult sitting on the floor with them! It was a very rewarding experience to me, and I'm very glad I took the time to go.

How in the world did I plan to make a quilt from artwork? (See below for what I went through before I came up with this solution). Computers! I scanned all the children's images in to my computer, but instead of printing them out myself I am going to have a custom fabric company print it out on real cotton fabric. Then the final beautiful fabric will arrive to me just like a store bought cheater panel ready to sew on the sashing to quilt it up. Sounds expensive you think, but since I made the entire project fit on a single yard of fabric I only have to buy one yard which will cost me $20 AFTER SHIPPING!

As I was inserting the scanned images the world opened when it dawned on me that it's custom fabric. I don't have to make the sashing one color. I'm unlimited, I can make it however I'd like. So then I started working with swatches and effects for the background.

I researched all the other options that I could think of, printable fabric -expensive at 5 sheets for $10+/- as I needed 20 sheets at least (always take extras just in case), homemade printable fabric sheets - which seemed both labor intensive for finding the ingredients and then for making it, or simply allowing them to color directly onto the fabric. I did the math for fabric crayons $2 for a box of 8 is not bad one box for every two children, that's 9 boxes at $2 = $18 just in crayons... So then I thought well I just use regular crayons, but the wax paper didn't want to stick to the fabric as well as I thought it should, so I went for 40 gsm stabilizer with hairspray. That worked well but when I had my daughter test it out for me I found that anywhere she pressed hard with the crayon (to make the crayon show) the fabric lifted from the stabilizer and any further coloring in that area was very light, combined with the standard non-washable crayons, seemed like a quilt I didn't want to make.

Stay tuned for a review of my custom fabric in the upcoming weeks.

I am a firm believer that all artwork belongs directly to the artist. Be they 2 or 102, so all rights are reserved for the children whose artwork is pictured here in.

The Find

For Halloween my neighbor, who volunteers at hospice, gave Jessica a beautiful Strawberry Shortcake Dress.  It's darling in red and Jessica wore it to school the first day after I washed it.  Everywhere she went people complimented her on her pretty dress.  It's an apron style dress so it will work great with long or short sleeves under it.  Dresses work perfectly for Jessica who is so skinny, so I asked my neighbor if there were any more dresses.  Sure enough there were.  Aren't these beautiful?

I nearly forgot to tell you the about the dresses!  They are handmade never worn dresses.  The story my neighbor told me is that years ago a husband and wife started up a business the wife made all of these children's clothes. When the wife passed away the husband brought in all of the remaining dresses that his wife had made and donated them to hospice.

My personal favorite is the sundress with the pink and yellow 1/2" straps.  It has a pretty little purse attached to the waist with ribbons that hold it to the dress.  The little purse even opens for little treasures (hopefully I'll always find those little treasures before I wash clothes!)  The Cream dress to the left of it has a similar little purse which I'm certain Jessica will love having. 

Stormy Update

Stormy is sporting his third ball of yarn in this photo and has grown to be 36" long.  Shoot I've gone and knitted the length of a child!  Jessica loves to use my knitting needles as wands so one metal needle went missing for a night, I used one of my wooden needles that night instead and those were the hardest rows to put on by far!  But the lost is found and it seems to be going a bit faster now.  (the bamboo needle of the same size has more friction therefore I had trouble with drag).

 I'm personally currently in a rush to make an Advent Calendar for my friend Vicki over at Felines and Fibre Arts.  It's funny you think oh Christmas I have plenty of time.  Not so with an advent calendar.  I figure I need to have it in the mail before U.S. Thanksgiving to ensure it arrives in time.

Mommy?

Mommy, can I check out a Cinderella Book at the Library today?

My brain wheels a bit. Honey of course you can, but you already have two Cinderella Books here at home.

Is this what happens when you have lots and lots of books avail. to your child at home? I don't really know as Jessica has all of my children's books and all of my four siblings children's books (I am the oldest and the youngest is 19 my junior). She also reaps the rewards of a used bookstore going out of business and all children's books that I was buying that day were only 25 cents. Not to mention all of the books she herself has selected and has had purchased just for her. We easily spent 40 minutes reading to her or having her "read" (talk about the pictures) back to us. Often it's more. I timed our book reading over the course of a day over a year ago, just because I was curious.

So today is library day at school, it's the 11th week of "school library day", on three different weeks she selected books we already own. Twice she picked Cinderella (one was paperback and later it was hardcover) and once she picked "I wish I had Duck Feet", which is a great book, a holdover from my childhood days that we hadn't read in a while. Hey at least she knows what she likes!

Reversible Table and Placemats

Here I have my six newly made 4-holiday placemats and table runner. My runner is short and fat to cover the buffet area, so it won’t run far, but it will do a great job over here. Four-holiday what could I possibly be talking about?  It's Reversible!

Firstly you have the fall side. I think it's plenty festive for Halloween or Thanksgiving, and then you have the heart side which I think works not only for Valentine's but for Christmas as well. Keep in mind those crazy hearts (the first crazy quilt items I've ever made) will be covered with your Christmas Dinnerware, or mine as the case may be. I think with some blue napkins you could easily use these for Independence Day as well, though here in Sunny Florida we celebrate outside.

The hearts were made from my scrap bag and contain fabrics from last year's Red Wintergraphix Quilt, as well as Jessica's PJ's and a skirt that my neighbor made. The remaining fabrics were intended to be thrown away as to much fabric had found it's way into my local charity thrift store and they were planning on throwing it out (horror of horrors!) A dear friend rescued it from our local incinerator for me. Since I didn't have any interfacing the appliqué was made with muslin instead. I only used thread that I had on hand, which meant that when I ran out of red with the last placemat all all of the table runner appliqué were sewn on with white. I think it makes an eye pleasing change.

The cornucopia I made a week or two ago and didn't know what to do with it. It's a crayon transfer method and all of those where old junkie crayons, if you decide to do the same thing, don't use washable crayons and be sure to use a paper towel to wipe the crayon tips off first, that takes off any of the color spots and prevents it from getting mixed in to your art.

This is my entry for the Scrap Contest over at Homemade Dress, what did you think? You can still join in the fun the deadline is Lunchtime Nov. 7th (considering time zones I'd go with am if I were you) take a minute to pray for Samatha's family while your over there, her family really needs them.

That's a Quilt!

Well now as much as I want to people would be confused if I said that's a wrap when really it's a quilt. The Feathered Star is officially done. I finished it Friday, but I felt like it needed more quilting so this evening Jessica and I sat down together and added more. I'd say it's done now. The flannel back is really nice; it makes me want to curl up with it, which I did Friday afternoon even in 80 degree weather. It does amaze me how the simply adding quilting takes three pieces that feel nothing like a quilt and viola even as it moves within the sewing machine I can feel the change. For me it's like stitching in magic.

This quilt is two sided, the back being two of the softest flannel I've had the joy of working with.  Oh and if you think those simple four squares are easy take a second look.  Since the seams never match I had to sew a little and stop, line things up and sew some more.  I do like the finished look.  This is the butterfly/easter egg fabric, so tell me which one do you see first?  I saw the butterflies first, but everyone else says the eggs.

These are part of a scrap challenge.  They are going to be reversible 4-holiday placemats.  This side is the Christmas - Valentines side and I have a print checkered fabric that I'll be using for the fall side.  I plan to make 10 but for my entry it will only be six, since the requirement is to only use what you have and I ran out of red thread on number seven haha.  I'll also be making a reversible tablerunner/wallhanging to go along with these.  If you want to participate click on the words "Scrap Challenge" you've got till Nov. 6th.

Last but certainly not least is my Stormy update.  What a growing scarf I have on my hands.  Measuring in at 18" inches and on the second ball of yarn!

Feathered Star Quilting!

The Feathered Star Baby Quilt went into the sewing machine today!  I've completed all of the machine quilting for the center of the quilt and I'm now working on the borders. I made a beautiful pieced flannel backing, but the camera is out of juice so that will have to wait until the quilting is done.

Spouse Q&A

It seems fellow bloggers have a Q&A going around, and you know me I had to participate.

♥ What are your middle names
Ann & Edward

♥ How long have you been together?
8 years

♥ How long did you know each other before you started dating?
We were introduced in 1996 and worked together from July 2000 through Sept 2001 before thinking about dating.

♥ Who asked who out
Offically I did.

♥ How old are each of you?
29 and 39

♥ Whose siblings do/did you see the most?
mine

♥ Do you have any children together?
yes, 1

♥ What about pets?
two cats two birds and a slew of fish

♥ Which situation is the hardest on you as a couple?
I have no idea maybe it was the Hurricanes in '04, or unemployment from  in '07-'08, or maybe it's my disability.  In retrospect as long as we have each other the hard parts slip away.

♥ Did you go to the same school?
nope

♥ Are you from the same home town?
Where I lived as a baby was a block from where DH lived as a child.

♥ Who is the smartest?
Mathwise and Science is DH, English Language is me

♥ Who is the most sensitive?
Rob

♥ Where do you eat out most as a couple?
Caposey's

♥ Who has the worst temper?
Rob

♥ Who does the cooking?
Me.

♥ Who is more social?
Oddly Rob

♥ Who is the neat-freak?
me

♥ Who is the more stubborn?
Rob

♥ Who hogs the bed?
Me

♥ Who wakes up earlier?
Rob

♥Where was your first date?
Officially Melting Pot, unoffically Chili's

♥ Who has the bigger family?
Me

♥ Do you get flowers often?
Isn't that what my Rose Garden is for?

♥ How do you spend the holidays?
Together, once we ran away with Jessica to our favorite hotel for Thanksgiving.

♥ Who is more jealous?
LOL!  Neither

♥ How long did it take to get serious?
Second date?

♥ Who eats more?
Rob

♥ Who does/did the laundry?
I think it's split 60% me - 40% Rob

♥ Who’s better with the computer?
Me but he's more patient

Lounge around

This morning I made the pants to match the top I made for Jessica a week or two ago.  The front has one breast pocket where as the back has two little heart pockets.  Both the top and the bottom is made using only french seams, I'm keeping at this because I really like the weight of the finished garment when sewed this way, not to mention one day I'll buy silk for those lounge pants DH wants, and when I sew those I'll only get one shot, so they better be right! 

Since most of these clothes will be Christmas gifts I find myself in a catch 22, when Jessica is at school I can make her things, but when Rob is home I can not work on his stuff. I have 1 yard of Barbie logo print that I'll be using to make something for Jessica, I'm not certain just what, and I have two or three more things to make for my husband.

Holiday Greetings from your Local Toilet?

When I was little my Grandmother had a cornucopia on the back of her toilet. Every Thanksgiving she would fill it with Thanksgiving type things, I recall leaves and squash but I'm certain there was more and the rest of the time it had little guest towels in it. Well Grandma must have been sitting on my shoulder today, as I began to wish for one of my own, a table runner of sorts to spread over my table this Thanksgiving. I had a pattern from my "Quilt for All Seasons" book, but oddly I didn't have any orange fabric. Orange was my Grandmother's favorite color, or so she told me (perhaps to get me to use the orange crayon) so I'm rather partial orange fabric when I'm feeling sentimental.

So no Orange Fabric?!?!  What is a girl to do?  I've been meaning to use crayons in a child themed quilt but hadn't gotten around to it, so this was the perfect time to try.  I used the applique pattern pieces and traced them through onto unbleached muslin, but the color detailing and layout is all me.  Must have been all those college art classes I took.

Before I could bring myself to iron my work, I colored up a sample, which I'm certain to use in something.  Isn't it great when things set just how you wish they would?

I think it's time for a Stormy Update as well. This is by far this is the closest color match to what Stormy really looks like. It was taken AFTER the sun had set - with me back to my yellow living room light. That's certainly not what I read up on how to take a photo. Go figure.

Best Hiding Spot

Today I made two pairs of Lounge Pants.  The pair above will be headed over to my mom's house to live with my brother.  Aren't those Monkeys silly?  I also made a blue pair, you can see the teal blue fabric that I used in the post below, just look for the fabric to the left of my daughter's head that looks like a teal blue blender.  (Not the water fabric on the right that's a different project)

I think I'm pretty smart with those, I put the finished pants right back in my "fabric for current projects" pile.  Somehow I don't think my dear husband will notice that it's not fabric sitting there. 

Still Me

Yes it's still me.  I thought it was high time I too had a nice pretty quilt in my header.  What do you think?  That's my very first double sided quilt, which I made for my sister for Christmas last year.  The back is a two color quilt and the front is pieced and embroidered. 

I have a confession.  I've been trying to make some headway on my to do list.  Do you know what happens when you do that?  Your brain keeps comming up with more projects and more things to do!  Why is that a confession?  Well some of you put away preserves this time of year and for that I give you two thumbs up.  Not me though...  I've been hoarding fabric!  I'm quite ashamed now that I've cleaned up a bit and I can really see the bulk of my hoarding.  Most all of the fabrics are targeted at a project even (instead of stash purchases).  I'm certain when I placed the first big order as my birthday present, my husband thought I'd be done for a while. 

When my neighbor cleaned her own stash I was over the moon.  Then when she brough me two bags that had been donated to the Hospice where she volunteers I was on cloud nine.  Then there was a huge fabric sale...  Now I'm just another victim of fabric overdose and I want even more still...

Stormy's Beginnings

I have a new knitting project. Which I'm calling Stormy. No it's nothing inspirational just the name of the wonderful yarn that I'm using. This thick yarn has sucked in all of my knit stitches so both the front and the back look like rows and rows of pearl stitches. I think it's rather pretty, what do you think? This scarf will be headed off to Shelly, so I'll be updating here as I work on it for all to see.

The Back for the Apple Quilt is done. I'm so glad. It was touch and go with this one for a while. It's a bit more "folk art" than I usually like. The entire Apple Quilt was a self challenge for me to put colors together that I wouldn't have selected to work with under other circumstances. This quilt started out life as a Jelly Roll. My first one in fact. To have come so far on just one Jelly Roll must be some sort of testament.

Shelly has generously offered to quilt this one on her Lizzie, so I left plenty of extra fabric all around.  I've never had anything longarmed before, so I'm a little nervous!  Here's hoping she wont curse me to much while this one is with her!

Does anyone have any thoughts why all my photos today have lines running through them?  I even used different settings.  Maybe the batteries are getting low?

Autumn Has Arrived!

Here is the quilt back I'm working on for the apple quilt.  It's a bit bigger than I need it to be, so the gray and plaid borders will need a bit of adjusting in size.  I started with the Apple Tree and hope to move on to the pirate ship this afternoon.

This year for Halloween I envisioned my family working together for the good of the family pumpkin.  Oddly that didn't happen and my attempts to get the three of us together to work on it fell flat.  Kudos to those of you with older children and bigger families, I don't know how you do it.  So last night I hauled the pumpkin out of where it had been banished and started working on it after Jessica went to bed.  Before to long my husband pitched in which was good.

We don't carve our pumpkins as you can see.  This year I'm hoping to gut it and turn it into pumpkin pie right after Halloween.  My cousin swears it can be done with a normal pumpin so we shall see.  Because of the way we made the Princess Pumpkin's hair we were able to have a two faced pumpkin this year, which hubby really enjoyed creating.

 

That's all folks hope you have a great fun filled day!

Fish or Food?

Here are the Almond Clusters. When I was photographing them they reminded me of koi. You know the really big goldfish? There is a restaurant in Orlando called Ming Court and they have huge Koi that will come completely out of the water to have a bite of the fish food that tourists can buy for change. I'm not sure if these will find their way off to the bake sale, as they might just have to say home with me.

Friday I sewed up this cute flannel top.  I'm planning matching pants with pockets on the back using the same cat fabric from the front.  I'd also like to have the cuffs in the same cat fabric, but as I only have scraps of the cat print I'm not certain I'll have enough.

Good Blogger, Bad Blogger

Seriously what makes good bloggers vs. bad bloggers? Is it our ability to stick to whatever subject that our blog is about? Because if that's the case I'd still be talking about my 2 year old and not quilting at all. Thank goodness I'm a bad blogger. Because I really like what comes out of my sewing machine. Not to mention I love it when others share a bit about themselves while sharing their choosen medium.

What sets us apart? Is it great photos? (because you're not getting any today I feel like my allergies hit me right on my honker) Is it how often we blog? Our giveaways? When I don't blog for a while I think gee "bad blogger me", yet it's our lives that make our blogs interesting...

Or perhaps it's just that it's an outlet for others like us to find each other in our own creative environments? If that's the case then I'm as happy as a lark.

I have an opps of the week. I'm certain if it was a contest I'd win this week. The Student Council at Jessica's school is having their first bake sale. I wanted to contribute (and baking sounded like fun) so I pulled out the best Sugar Cookie Recipe I have (I've perfected dozens and dozens of cookie batches - believe me or not). This time I made three batches. I was certain all of my cookies would be gone as they were especially cute pumpkins, ghosts, and leaves. Then when I was 90% baking all of them I tasted one of the first. Something was not right at all.

Jessica loved them and ate 4 the first day... But still I couldn't quite put my finger on what was wrong with them. Around dinner time it hit me. I FORGOT to put sugar in. Oh yes the only sugar in them is the sugar on top of them. So much for that. Rob is out buying nuts so we can make cashew clusters and peanut brittle as I'm burned out on cookies for the time being.  At least Jessica thinks they're great.

Keep that Gal Sewing!

I love the patterning DH did on the scarf he made.  I'm glad it was his project not mine.

I have the best news the third scarf is done!  I finished it last night, I just need to weave in the bits of yarn sticking out.  DH started another one blur crochet this time.  That will bring out donated scarves to four.  Not bad.

This is the one I made.  It was 80 rows garter knit, 11 rows of pearl, repeat. UGH way to much counting!

Jessica made off with the bolster, just like she does with all the good stuff.

AS for today I've spent most of the day sewing, I've been working on cutting down the two bags of fabric my neighbor gave me.  I made a blue bolster pillow for a Christmas gift (shhh) and capri's for me (out of this amazing fabric that breathes!)  There is an ugly Charmeuse Polyester in that I haven't decided if it will become pants for my husband or not.  Aren't I a kind and considerate wife to take this time and concern over ugly fabric?   I also have 3 yards of an amazing bottom weight fabric (that DH has already complimented on) which I have great plans to turn into a godet skirt, I'll do that just as soon as I can get my hands on a bit of black for detailing work.

 My favorite part of these pants is the zigzag detail!

QUILTS?!?!?!  Well I'll tell you about quilts. 

1.  That Cat Quilt is the one at the top of my pile right now and while I keep playing with layouts, I don't know what to do about it.  I'd really like butterflies in it somehow...

2.  I've decided that the Spring Sampler MUST have a border to bring the quilt together.

3.  My pile of quilts to be quilted is getting scary big.  I found a darning foot that I'm hoping DH can alter a bit to fit the Brother machine so that I can try my hand at free motion.

Magic Seeds Grow a Magic Cactus

Earlier this afternoon my daughter said something that I just had to share.  She told me that if we had magic beans we could grow a magic cactus that would reach all the way up into the clouds and then we climb it all the way up to heaven.

The top photo is what our cactus looks like now.  Not really Magic, but it does grow pretty fast.  This second photo is of the "trunk".  The entire plant could have fit into this photograph when we first bought our house.

While Jessica's creative mind is a bit different than what is traditional, there are times I very much wish I could climb a cactus if only for a visit.  Our cactus is pretty much thorn free with the tiny "2mm" thorns mostly only found on the new growth, but I still wouldn't let Jessica touch it for the photo.

What Would You do, without a Router?

Yesterday I must have been having to much fun because our router burned up.  Something about the ac/dc converter box.  Pain in the rear is what I'd call it.  It was working and then all of the sudden with no warning zip gone. 

While my DH is still in the process of installing the new one I'm back and raring to go.  While I was away from the Internet I FINALLY pieced together the blocks for the Spring Sampler.  It looks differently than I intended but that's okay as it contains only stash busting fabrics.  It's a twin quilt measuring in at 90" x 55"  I'll be pulling out the quilt I made for my daughter to measure before I decide if I'll be adding a border or not.

As always you can click on the photos to see them better.

Fall Quilt Festival 2009

Welcome to Sand and Sunshine, where you get a bit of both.  I'm so excited about this Fall Quilt Festival.  Amy gave out hints so I was able to give some thought to which quilt I would enter and here it is.

I try to make all of my quilts double sided especially baby quilts like this one.

My dearly beloved sister loves to put of buying baby shower gifts to the very last minute.  She also loves to have me make quilts for her to give away.  I try very hard to find the best quality softest flannel so maybe that's the appeal.  I haven't been able to say no to my sister yet, but this one was by far my favorite. 

My sister was the teacher's aid at a local elementary school last year and the teacher she was helping was expecting a little boy over this past summer.  I just had to include the embroidered letters and the pretty greens.

ABC's at 26 letters don't divide to make good dimensions for a baby quilt, so after hoping around looking at baby quilt photos on other blogs I made these stars.  Each expressing words of hope that parents have for each and all of their children.

When the quilt was finished I felt it was perhaps more of a toddler quilt for the years to come so I added this little receiving blanket too.

I asked my sister the other day how the mom and baby were doing and she told me she hasn't seen the mom since she gave her the quilts. So my two quilts are out there, hopefully keeping a little boy warm and safe. I like to think these two quilts are loved with every fiber they are made of. I'd rather seen it worn to tatters than hidden away for years.

Thanks for stopping by!

Fairy Wishes

Yesterday, a long time near and dear friend of mine went in for Surgery.  I'm assuming no news is good news at this point, but still I thought I would send her some fairy wishes in the form of the Fairy I painted at the Mum's the Word Party my sister and I hosted for our mom this past Spring.

From the Seat Cushion scraps I had had just enough fleece to make three hair ties.  One for my mom, my sister, and one to keep.  I have no idea how well the fleece will hold in my hair, but I think it will be cute on game days and the like.