Sunday February 19th...

Today's Participants:

• Sadira
• Rozzilyn
• Mama
  

This was Rozzilyn's first Creative Sunday! She and mama came over for the afternoon session. Rozzilyn was working on some really cute bears from a Japanese card she received. As you can see, she drew the pattern first (the tiny one on the right) the same size as the image on the card, which we decided was a bit too small to make and stuff. So, my mom drew a rough guide to exactly how tall it should be...so she stretched it out (how cute is that???) Then...I drew the top of the head and ears onto a piece of paper and she was able to draw the rest by herself...and as you can see by the image on the right...the one cut out by itself...it is perfect!

We cut the pieces out of felt, and she glued all the accent pieces on...and drew the details on each bear with a sharpie, and then stuffed them with stuffing. They turned out really cute! She did an amazing job! The brown one is for her to keep, and the other one she is sending to Thais!
And the really great thing is, my mom said that when they got home...Rozzie said she wanted to learn how to sew...and my mom has been trying to get her interested in that for some time now!
(I do believe she may be inspired!)

Pants From a Dress!

My mother's project for the afternoon was making a pair of pants for Rozzie out of an old rayon embroidered house dress that she wore out. They look so great...I love the way that one of the cuffs has the button holes from the front of the dress on them, and on the other cuff, there are the buttons!
(now you can see where I get some of my creative flair from)

This is Ms. Rozz wearing the pants...they fit her great! My mom loves the back of the pants because they're all gathered up and look like jodphurs...most of my childhood memories consist of my mom ooohing and aaahing over jodphurs wich is odd because I grew up in Southern California, and we weren't horsey people...(or English, for that matter!)

This is my mother who is patiently using my vintage Singer Featherweight we use for sewing...it is the end of the day, and the machine is being really cranky...this is after a full day of sewing. Which lead to a lot of sighing and rolling of eyes!
Who knows, maybe it's tired?
(on another note...we may have talked ourselves into buying a serger!)

I am in the middle of a huge project right now, so I am not going to publish any pictures of it until I am done...sorry, you'll have to wait! So, at the end of the day, cranky sewing machine and all, I whipped up this scrap bag...for all of our material scraps. It is made out of a vintage kitchen towel my mother gave me (does anyone else have a vintage kitchen linen obsession? Seriously, everyone knows not to let me go to the kitchen linen section of any store any more! And, if I manage to sneak over there...they must wrestle me to the ground and run off with anything I have "just happened to pick up") I really love the way the bag turned out...it had been made into a curtain, so I just stitched up the other side to match it and ran some red ribbon with white polka-dots through the top of it.

Yummy...

This is the amazing snack that was provided courtesy of my mother! Ginger cookies and cornmeal cookies...the cornmeal cookies taste a lot like sugar cookies...only much better!

After snacking and crafting, we bundled up and went for a quick walk around the neighborhood, as it was a little too cold to stay out for long!