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    Doll sleeping bag

    February 13, 2012 - By 
    For Christmas this year, our daughter received an American Girl Doll. She’s been wanting one for years. My only issue is that all the American Girl brand accessories are really spendy just because they have the logo.
    Yesterday I decided that I’d try to make a sleeping bag for her. I grabbed my box of blue scraps (once intended for a boy quilt) and started piecing.
    With a few measurements of the doll herself, I decided on my size.
    I’d say it fits pretty well.

    Little J liked it a lot with the exception of the colors. I figured that would be the case so this one will be a gift and I’ll be making another in the colors of her choosing.
    I got to go crazy with my free-motion foot.
    I had to stop after breaking 3 needles and read up about what in the world I was doing wrong.
    Turns out I was moving my hands to quickly and pulling the needle out of alinement so it would smack down onto the footplate and snap.

     

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    Postcard Challenge week 6

    February 10, 2012 - By 
    This week Darcy announced that our country was Belgium. Again, I know I have some fun stuff from Belgium but I can’t find it!! I looked in the nooks and crannies of my art zone but apparently in the 6 years since I put together that book, my leftovers have crawled away.
    Instead, I decided on a watercolor. And now that it’s complete..I’m so glad I couldn’t find my goodies from Belgium. 🙂

     

     

    On the back of the corner Chocolate Shop postcard Thadeus writes about his current situation in Belgium. That he’s renting a room from an older couple and had come to a standstill in his research.
    He feels that the piece he is working on is the key to the puzzle.

     

     

    I’ve also completed the page that will hold the postcard.

     

     

    I’ve added a couple extras to the story… just for fun.
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    Missed Tea Tuesday again

    February 8, 2012 - By 
    Gosh, it’s already Wednesday evening! Time seems to be getting away from me lately.
    I did want to show you why I missed tea yesterday.
    I was learning to knit the top onto a kitchen towel. Isn’t it sweet…the towel I mean. It’s a vintage towel from the box of linens I’ve been working through.  It  now hangs proudly in my kitchen.
    I also wanted to show you that I’ve started on the pages for the Postcard Challenge.
    This is the page for France.
    I made a pocket to hold the postcard from a label which I believe is from some sort of alcoholic beverage. Beer, ale, wine or spirit…not sure…
    I have a couple of extras laying beside that I plan to include once I put the page in it’s proper place in the book.
    I also have my postcard for Friday completed!!!
    Of course, I can’t show that now.
    But I must say,  I do love it!
    Hopefully, I’ll have enough time after my volunteer duty in the school library tomorrow to complete the page to hold said postcard before posting it on Friday morning.