First off - have you noticed today's date? 1/11/11? Make a wish or something, a date like this doesn't come around very often. It's not like I'm some kind of numerologist or anything, it just seems kind of cool that today's date is made up solely of the number 1. I think I've officially geeked out enough for one post, so let's move on to some fabric goodness...
My nephew Matthew is notorious for bending back the spines of his board books, so for his first birthday, I thought it was only appropriate that I make him a soft book that he can bend a million times without breaking. I started doodling this last week while half-heartedly watching an episode of "Super Why" with the munchkin, and he was keenly interested in my sketching. I suspect he may ask for his own soft book, even though he's way too big for one now, but I suspect I'll cave in and make him one anyway.
Somehow, when I got the wonderful idea to make this book, I kind of forgot that I'm not an artist. I can't draw a straight line, I'm not very good at drawing...see where I'm going with this? Some of the pages came out really nicely, and I'm really proud of them, but the boy and girl? Not so much...
I embroidered his name on the front, and I found a new favorite way to trace embroidery - at least small embroidery designs. I held my fabric on my laptop monitor and traced with my disappearing ink pen. It was awesome!
All in all, this was a pretty quick project to put together, which made me happy, because I've still got my niece Katie's birthday present to make too. She'll be getting a doll from the Wee Wonderfuls book, though I haven't decided on which one just yet. They're all so darn cute! She's really big on dolls at the moment, so I want to make her one while she still enjoys them. Off to see all of the other wonderful goodies at Fabric Tuesday this week...
UPDATE: Sounds like some of you would really like a tute, so I suppose the munchkin will be getting a soft book of his own after all. I will try to work up a tute this weekend for you all :)
by Boo Davis. There's a ton of fun patterns, one of which is for charm bracelet style placemats. I decided to switch it up a little bit and practice some of my patchwork skills rather than use a simple solid center fabric for the charms, and I really like how that part turned out. I'm not a huge fan of my choice of binding, but I used what was in my stash. I really wish I had just used the red. My mom's plates are blue, though, and I know she's a big fan of this print, so here's hoping she likes them!
