First, I am doing an exchange with Aimee over at Jewel Street Designs. She liked the little elephant pouch I made over my birthday week and I love her jewelry, so we made a deal. Here are her elephants:
I think I was supposed to make 4 of them, but I got really annoyed with the last one and it ended up in a pile on the floor and will soon be in the trash after I remove the zipper. I used a really light linen and had to line it with really stiff interfacing and it just was not working. Then I lined it with a really loosely woven ticking and it just ended up with a lot of holes. SO.....I made another smaller elephant pattern and ear pattern and put an elephant on a mini pouch. I hope she likes them! 
The eyes are super tiny buttons (about 1/4 inch wide) that I got at a quilt show several years ago. 
Secondly, my friend Shannon is having a baby in a couple of months and so I made her a baby blanket for her shower. I had a LOT of leftover fabric from a quilt I made a couple of years ago so I just pulled a bunch of those scraps and put them together in a brick pattern. I am wavering about outlining 3-4 bricks in black but I can't decide. I make baby blankets larger than traditional ones, usually about 36"x48", and I really like the way this one turned out. I think that this combination of colors and patterns looks a lot like water. It still needs a backing and to be sewn together, but that will happen later. 
I also made a purse for my friend's mom, but I don't have any pictures of the outside yet, so I will post about that in a day or so.
8 comments:
Those elephants are freaking sweet C! I spent my weekend making soap, which is much less frustrating for me than sewing. I have to have several weeks off to attempt the sewing projects :)
I do LOVE them! They are so adorably cute, and I love the pouch as well. Sorry my elephants gave you such a fit. I need to email you.
The baby blanket is beautiful! I think it's great you make it larger than standard. Then it can be a woobie when they get older. I still use the one my mother made me when I was a baby, and my daughter used it. That's the fantastic thing about handmade blankets.
Aimee and her love of elephants. Those are super cute.
And I so wish you could teach me how to sew. I haven't a clue.
I think the 4th elephant as applique works great! Very cute, all. I also like your idea of throwing a few black bricks into that quilt.
very productive weekend! those elephants are adorable.
The blanket & the elephants are beautiful--you do great work!
Cute elephants! I tried an elephant craft a few weeks ago and it was a disaster. I'll have to take a picture of what I was trying to make and sent it along to you. Maybe YOU can do it!
Oh, those are precious! You are so talented.
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