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yarn wrapped spool animals

supplies: spools, yarn, felt, button eyes, embroidery floss, pom for bunny tail.

cut out 2 circles for the face and behind, make sure to give the bunnyface some ears. cut out your beak or sheep ears and nose and tail out of felt.

wrap spool nice and fat with yarn and then weave in loose end between the rolls.

glue or sew features on to face and butt. (for sheep glue ears on to side of spool)

glue on face and butt.

an Oscar tip: find an incline somewhere and roll them down and laugh hysterically because they have no feet to stop them.

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ula’s umbrella

Spring’s final stitchette, Ula’s Umbrella…


Thanks again to everyone who left one of the many wonderful suggestions for the Spring Stitchettes! These were a lot of fun to work on. They should be up in the shop sometime soonish…within the next 2 weeks I’d say. Then I’ve got to figure out a way to squeeze in the rest of the alphabet.

And hey thanks for all the well wishes on the new house! There will definitely be many before/after pics popping up around here. I’ve taken the camera out there four days in a row now and been too wiped out to take any pics each time. But they’ll be coming… and coming and coming. Did I mention the kitchen? How about the bathrooms? The basement?! Oh, they’ll be coming.

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girl thrift

I realized last weekend that I hadn’t been to the thrift store since I found out this baby is a girl! so we had to rectify that straight away. found some fun stuff…

pillowcases to make her little sundresses from…

folky purse, heart overalls and sailor dress…

and because something had to be pink, for our cute little bundle…

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thank you Vicki!

Ok, I’m starting to get pretty excited when the postman rings my bell. Of course today he punished me for my eagerness by delivering maternity underwear and stamps. But look what he brought me yesterday! This gorgeous little doll quilt from Vicki!

Isn’t it yummy! Is it my pregnant-ness or does it make everyone want to dive head first into a strawberry shortcake. Getting to that point where everything reminds me of a treat. I just love these bright colors and  look at the hand quilting! And the little embroidery in the corner. It’s just so sweet. Thank you Vicki, I love it!

And looks like Vicki is hooked on the tiny quilts, click over and sign up for your chance to win one of your own. I’m sitting on my hands to keep from signing up myself. I may have to pick up another one from her shop.

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Oliver Observes

Oliver here is Spring Stitchette number 2. He was inspired by Oscar’s newfound fascination with binoculars. The big fat curls were a repeat suggestion from the readers and they’re awfully cute. thanks guys!

Last night I was working on his partner in crime, Miles Mows, and after nearly erasing through the paper to get it right realized that his carefully rendered push mower just ended up looking like he was riding a segway! Not really what I was going for so I scrapped it and started over. Turns out I’m so much happier with what I ended up with. Can’t wait to stitch it up. Funny how that works.

Happy Spring everyone!

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doll quilt

Well this turned out better than I expected. Oscar wouldn’t give up the work table while we were working in the craft room so I had to cut this out in my lap while sitting at the sewing machine. I love the non-fussiness of doll quilts. Embrace the wonky!

the floral fabric is from a thrifted bedspread, the big green dot from superbuzzy and the little green dot from somewhere, hobby lobby maybe? quilt is 19" x 21"

I’m heeding the excellent advice of Gretchen and crafting until the last possible moment! Time to get off the computer and tackle Oscar’s new covers.