Finally, a finish to kick off the stitching year with! I’ve been pegging away at this one on and off; sometimes I would work on it furiously till late at night and other times, it sat in its Q-snap and languished. But at least it’s done! The only change I made to the design was to replace the word “difficult” with “sad” because to my mind, “difficult” and “hard” are the same thing. I like how it turned out. It’s going to get framed and then presented as a gift to my dear mother-in-law. I’m one of the lucky women to have a wonderful mother-in-law, and by all accounts she likes me too. LOL. I’m sure she will appreciate this …
Crafting
Flipping out over Green Flips.
My mom and sisters very generously gifted me with gift certificates from 123Stitch last Christmas, and I’m now in the strange but nice position of having more credit with that store than I know what to do with! Isn’t it funny how you always have nothing that you need or want, when you have gift certificates to spend? I was wondering for a while what to buy, and now I have an answer that will put a little dent in my GC balance at 123. It’s Lizzie Kate’s latest series, the Green Flips, which I think are super-cute and will be stitching all on one piece of fabric as shown in the model photo. So cute, right? I can’t stand …
Christmas vignette: handmade gifts.
I decided this year that I would make my colleagues Christmas gifts instead of buying things for them, because my colleagues are all people who have everything they could possibly want and therefore gift-buying is always a very difficult thing to do. So I thought about each colleague and what I knew about them, and these are what I made. Links to tutorials: Coffee mug cosy Tea wallet Sewing bag Manicure kit cover
Christmas ornaments sent and received.
I’m posting this from my bedroom in my mother’s house in JB! We arrived yesterday evening, had a scrumptious dinner in honour of my birthday at Pekin Restaurant which made me very very happy because we had salted-egg crab as one of the dishes, and then we came back and crashed in exhaustion. We took the girls on board the MV Doulos yesterday morning and they had a good time touring the ship. I have photos but can only upload them when we get back to Singapore. In the meantime, here are two Christmas ornaments to share. The first one was made by Edda in Iceland for me, and the second one was made by me for Linda in Singapore. …
A bucket hat for Alison.
For some reason, all the hats in our house seem to have disappeared. The only headgear that’s left is the pink hat with the zebra on it that Zoe modelled in the fashionista post. I figured since I have so much fabric lying around and a sewing machine that doesn’t get enough use, I’d make Alison a hat using this tutorial. Cutting out the 12 pieces needed to make the hat was a real pain, but Alison loves her new hat, so all’s good. Of course, when Zoe saw it, a fight broke out. I had to promise to make Z one made of dinosaur fabric to mollify her, which means that I have to recalibrate the pattern to make …
