In November, I shared a snap pouch which I said was a prototype for more.
It all began with a wee challenge with the Thursday sewers at the shop; we were given a wee stitchery pattern and two bullets of fabric (5"x 20") and a date to make something with them by.
The day rolled around and here is our Show and Tell.
Lots of beautiful creativity.
(I think the stitcheries came from a panel for the A letter to my daughter quilt.)
Coupled with a couple of cat bowls, it made a fun little gift.
Doug was quick to lie on it, apparently, as soon as it was opened!
Back in August we adopted McGeorgeous, a stray kitten my nieces had taken in. Getting into the Christmas spirit, I thought it would be nice for McGeorgeous to send a wee gift to Doug and Lizzy, his ex-room mates. Inspired by some scraps of Soft and Stable, and our rather worn cat-bowl mats, I whipped up a Christmas cat bowl mat for them.
I layered a FQ with the Soft and Stable and a random piece of (not very stretchy) t-shirt knit, cross hatched it all, shaped the corners and then sewed on the (bias) binding.
(One day I'll make one for our cats and see how well it washes and wears.)
You may remember in my last post, I shared a photo of a dress I'd just finished making, and said that a friend was making one using the same pattern at the same time.
We were both wearing them at a workday at the shop over the weekend so we had to take a photo. Suzanne was very creative in the making of her dress, using pieces of linen and a linen blouse for hers - check out the striped part of the skirt. You can see the neckline is the same but two totally different dresses!
Thank you for reading along!
'til next time,
Happy stitches,
Raewyn
Sweet little pouches!
ReplyDeleteI see that the mat has got the seal of approval!!
You wouldn't believe that those dresses were from the same pattern... Different fabric..and different shaped models.. change everything
Hope you are ok with all the rain?
ReplyDeleteArsnt you clever making those cute little pouches. Nice cat mat for under the bowls. I've made several, just a bordered cat FQ , with a backing, no wadding, then lightly quilted. I wanted it bigger as Gemma has tray arrangement which the two dishes slot into. These get washed regularly, no trouble at all.
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