Christmas projects so I could finish them before we went on our holiday to the USA
to see my family. Well I did finish everything I wanted to make :) I made 3 diaper bags,
a craft apron, small pillow, 2 travel doll houses, 2 dinosaur mats and 2 busy books.
The diaper bags I showed off in this earlier post. Three of our Texas nieces got those
with 3 dolls I made :)
We've got a little nephew in Texas who loves crafts! :) so we got him a big plastic box
and filled it with all sort of crafty bits and I made him a craft apron :) I got the pattern from
here. I changed it a little bit though. I didn't make the neck strap the same and I added a
felt pocket in the middle of mine. I made little shapes out of felt and glued them on. I had
seen this one and I liked the words on that apron so I embroidered them on mine.
Here it is!
Two of our nieces got the travel doll houses I made. I wrote about them in several posts. This
is the post showing one of the finished houses :) They were both mostly the same except for the
color of a few things and the little dolls hair color.
Two other nephews got some dinosaur mats :D They were fun to make :) I got inspiration
from a lot of pictures I saw on pinterest some of my favorite ones were these:
This was mine :)
I also made a pouch to put it in :)
My favorite part of this project was making the volcano!
I think it looked really good :D I made it with a bunch of scraps of brown felt
all glued together :)
The busy books I made were for one little niece in Texas and for Lilah-Mai, our little niece
here in the UK.
I've made a total of 4 busy books aka quiet books. I made 2 last year and 2 this year. Those
are very fun to make but they are projects that take a whole post for themselves :D So I'll show
you and tell you about them in another post soon :)
It was fun going to see the family in Texas and eating all the things :D Three weeks went by
too fast. We came back home to our lovely cat and our beautiful Christmas tree that we put up
before we left on holiday :)
We got the train in Texas :)
Now it's back to normality. I have some projects in a queue :) I want to make a weighted doll.
I've made my own pattern for this and can't wait to try it out. I also have 2 quilts to make, a
baby dress for our newest baby niece born just today in Texas :) I also am going to make a puffy
sleeve dress for our baby niece Dezi. She's just turned 2 :)
I made one of these dresses for miss Lilah-Mai with a hair bow too :) I used a pattern I got here.
She's got a very good tutorial with pictures.
Here she is!
What am I waiting for you might be asking. Why are my projects waiting in a queue you ask.
Well I am waiting for my new sewing machine. I've been waiting since I ordered it on the 2nd.
There was a mix up with my bank and them but it got fixed and on Monday they said it would be
sent. I would have it within 1 to 4 business days. Tomorrow is day 4. If it doesn't come
I'll be calling and using my serious voice!
Hope everyone is doing good so far this new year :)
