Well, yesterday and today I have accomplished quite a lot, compared to waht I usually do. Yes ma'am...I've made a beaded sweater that had shrunk and was badly out of shape into the loverly pillow you see below, as well as sewn pillows out of vintage hand pieced quilt blocks that have been in my stash for oh...years. I said sewed, not stuffed. I also sewed together 10 little Christmas pillows that I have also had for years and years. They had already been cut out by whoever had them before me, I just need to embellish them with a few buttons and stuff them and they'll be all ready to go...to someone.
cute little Christmas pillows waiting for stuffing:
I also decided I wanted to try and make a cat ornament like this one that I found at a thrift store one year. See how cute and quirky he is?:
This is how mine turned out:
short and stumpy and crooked with round ears and a fat tail....
I also found this adorable little scottie dog at a thrift store, thrown into a bin of toys. I want to try and make another one like him, but I think I have to perfect my cat first before I attempt the dog:
here's all three of them together. Don't they make a lovely family?
I also hung some pictures in my sewing room that I had got from trades and some of my own art work done at work (daycare). finger paint on cardboard:
I have plans to sew some more tomorrow before I go into work, but we'll see what happens. I feel very good about all these projects that I'm finally completing after putting them off for so many, many years. And I mean many. There's always some other thing distracting me from doing the things I really enjoy. Maybe I can keep it up.
