As I was picking up

As I was picking up in the sewing room I came across the purse hardware I bought and decided to whip up this little clutch to go with the last sundress I made here.

I don't ever use this small of a purse but who knows? I just might start with this outfit.

They Matched

I finally had a few minutes to go out and find the tea cozies I made last August and I think they match this set of place mats and coasters well enough. They are a nice change from Christmas.

Working ahead

I was still waiting for the yarn I ordered to arrive so I went ahead and made these two tea cozies that will be for Valentine's Day.

And guess what? The zebra yarn arrived while I was working on these so now I am ready to go back and finish that afghan. What great timing.

I still need to go out and look for the pansy tea cozies. I am just trying not to do too much bending until I get this tooth taken care of. Soon though I will be back to myself and will go looking for those. I sure hope they match!

While I wait

I have been slowly working on an afghan for weeks now. Even though I bought the amount of yarn called for I ran out of the zebra half way through! Of course that was the color I had to order because no one around here carries it.

So while I am waiting for that to arrive I went back to the teapot patterns. I made three more coasters and this time used the washing machine to felt them. It came out much closer to the size and texture I had envisioned. I also made three more of the place mats from the pattern I wrote based on the coasters. Since I did not want to felt the place mats but do want them to be washable I had to use different yarn and the colors did not match up as well as I had hoped but actually better in person than they look in this photo.

Now I need to dig out the tea cosy and see if those pansies will match...

Back to sewing fun

Remember the fun sun dresses I was making last summer? Well I confess I did go back for the black and white print fabric because it was haunting me, even though I did not have time to even finish the flamingo one.

So I finally had some time after hemming some new pants and pulled it back out and started to play around. I actually had pictured it with red/orange or red accents since the flowers are poppies but after several tries I ended up with this combo since it is more my color.

Of course this is only pinned together in the back and not hemmed... needs straps - you know - I still have to actually MAKE the dress. But now that I have a vision I am ready to sew!

Oh yeah, the flamingos? Well, I started sewing that one but decided I really did not like that rainbow rick rack for straps after all so have to get back to the fabric store to see what I can find.