Thing a Week - The end of 2012
Trying hard to catch up!
Here's my thing-a-weeks from the end of 2012, then I can start posting this year :D
(very warm lighting for most of these, sooo the colours aren't very accurate to life)
So I was out and about looking for some "office" type shirts and saw these adorable dish towels, which came two together. WELL. A friend of mine recently had twin ladies soooo
I cut the bib pattern out of the towels and used the scrap for the ruffle. You can't really see but the white bias piping has little white hearts on it, baaaaw. The back is baby pink terry cloth, so I guess technically they're reversible. The babies have flower names so I tried to make fabric flowers to personalize them. Uh yeah didn't work out.
I made these reversible coffee cup holder thingies for my starbucks addicted friend, they're patterned off the little cardboard ones they provide.
So I saw these oven mitt/hot pads for sale on pinterest that were shaped like butterflies. I liked the concept but thought the butterflies were sort of... awkward looking.
The one on the right is my original/test which I made for my mum, which I don't think I posted. I used some poly quilting batting that I keep around for misc things that's from my mum's quilting project in the 70s. Weeeell, it wasn't layer enough. So I used a few layers of scrap cotton batting and made another.
After I sewed a third button on the right side, we decided to send it to a friend.
SO.
I had to make another.
Buuuut when I'd gone to the fabric store for the terry clothe for the bibs, I saw this adooorable Valentines fabric...
And a friend who'd seen my test lady bug told me she wanted one for Christmas, and she likes pink so...
(I didn't realize the background diamonds until it was all finished, whoops)
And theeeen I thought, well the mother of the twins likes pink and cute sooo...
She got one too.
Actually her's is probably the nicest one because by that time I knew what I was doing 8D
My thing a week the week of Christmas was sort of sad:
But I made it so it counts.
It's supposed to be only 6 sides though, and my scissor dexterity isn't fabulous... but everyone needs a Batman snowflake.
Food!
I saw this and it looked super easy, and it was.
You take your cupcake tins and put a piece of lunch meat in the cup (the recipe used ham, I used turkey breast), then crack your egg in, add salt/pepper/spice (I added cheeeese) and stick it in the oven! 20 min at 350 I think it was, I'd have to double check.
Delicious protein.
Here's my thing-a-weeks from the end of 2012, then I can start posting this year :D
(very warm lighting for most of these, sooo the colours aren't very accurate to life)
So I was out and about looking for some "office" type shirts and saw these adorable dish towels, which came two together. WELL. A friend of mine recently had twin ladies soooo
I cut the bib pattern out of the towels and used the scrap for the ruffle. You can't really see but the white bias piping has little white hearts on it, baaaaw. The back is baby pink terry cloth, so I guess technically they're reversible. The babies have flower names so I tried to make fabric flowers to personalize them. Uh yeah didn't work out.
I made these reversible coffee cup holder thingies for my starbucks addicted friend, they're patterned off the little cardboard ones they provide.
So I saw these oven mitt/hot pads for sale on pinterest that were shaped like butterflies. I liked the concept but thought the butterflies were sort of... awkward looking.
The one on the right is my original/test which I made for my mum, which I don't think I posted. I used some poly quilting batting that I keep around for misc things that's from my mum's quilting project in the 70s. Weeeell, it wasn't layer enough. So I used a few layers of scrap cotton batting and made another.
After I sewed a third button on the right side, we decided to send it to a friend.
SO.
I had to make another.
Buuuut when I'd gone to the fabric store for the terry clothe for the bibs, I saw this adooorable Valentines fabric...
And a friend who'd seen my test lady bug told me she wanted one for Christmas, and she likes pink so...
(I didn't realize the background diamonds until it was all finished, whoops)
And theeeen I thought, well the mother of the twins likes pink and cute sooo...
She got one too.
Actually her's is probably the nicest one because by that time I knew what I was doing 8D
My thing a week the week of Christmas was sort of sad:
But I made it so it counts.
It's supposed to be only 6 sides though, and my scissor dexterity isn't fabulous... but everyone needs a Batman snowflake.
Food!
I saw this and it looked super easy, and it was.
You take your cupcake tins and put a piece of lunch meat in the cup (the recipe used ham, I used turkey breast), then crack your egg in, add salt/pepper/spice (I added cheeeese) and stick it in the oven! 20 min at 350 I think it was, I'd have to double check.
Delicious protein.