Just For Fun

The other day I bought this book:

It shows you how to make a skirt to fit YOUR BODY type--even "pears" like me--and has lots of examples of different styles: A-line, wraps, fitted...and how to make a skirt out of a vintage table cloth.

It has been, I must say, one of my wiser purchases.

I had some pretty fabric laying around (it had been calling out to me for weeks, pleading for me to lift it from its useless folded state into something with beauty and purpose) so I made this:

I had a little trouble with the zipper, which is why there are no photos of it...

But I though the pleats turned out well.
The only problem is that now that this skirt is finished it makes me want to go back to MY FAVORITE STORE IN THE WHOLE WORLD and start another one! (If you want to visit my least favorite store in the entire world, click here.)

All the photos were taken by the blue mermaid.

Sew Lovely

Do you remember those cute "Metta's Magnets" we made back in June?

Well this, dear friends, is Metta.

She is a good friend and an excellent crafter. This week she came in person to teach the mermaids how to embroidery.

(oooo....aaaahhh)

First she pulled out all of these wonderful fabrics for the girls to choose from. How fun is that!

Then the girls drew a shape that they wanted to embroider.

The blue mermaid chose to draw a star.

The red mermaid decided on a heart,

...and the orange mermaid decided to make an "N."

The mermaids were so excited to stitch their shape with REAL needles and REAL thread and REAL embroidery hoops. It was almost as if they were REAL colonial girls stitching samplers.

Metta helped the orange mermaid learn to stitch. She was thrilled. It was at this moment that she exclaimed, "THIS IS A FUN CRAFT!"

(Probably because the day before I told her she was too young for needles.)

Concentration in the room was so thick you could poke it with a needle.

Hahahaha.

By the way, Metta's charming mer-baby came as well.

This is her, chillin' on my bed:

After the girls finished embroidering the shapes, (and no one's eyes got poked out,) Metta and I sewed the girls' stitchings on to a larger piece of fabric.

Then we tacked them with some other pieces that Metta had cut out and made

TREASURE BAGS.

Here are the finished bags :

(Metta's example is the one with the "M".)

Sew fun. Sew cute. Sew Metta.

Thank you!