Gee, 13 days have gone by without me posting – not that it really matters, but I was really trying to keep up with regular posts. *sigh* I guess a bit of a January funk and a busted computer can get in the way. Fortunately homeopathics (for the funk) and a new brain (for the computer, although sometimes these days I feel like I could use a replacement, too!) seem to have fixed both problems.
Two of my dear friends have had babies recently – Andrea in Germany, with little Linus Leopold Reinig (how perfectly German is that!), and Maija more close by in North Van, with her little girl Molly. Following my current embroidery obsession, I thought I’d put together a couple of customized, reversible bibs:
And the other side (I’m getting a lot of mileage out of that 1960s bedsheet!):
After a good deal of my usual percolating (ie. procrastinating), I set to work. Decided to just dive right in and try out a few things I’d never done before: three strands of embroidery floss instead of six (I like the daintier look!); fusible interfacing, which, after the bibs were done I realised really wasn’t necessary; and, most of all, bias tape for the bib strings and binding. I tried making my own using one of those bias tape maker thingies, but I then decided that was much too advanced for my current stage of crafting.
So yeah, the bias tape is uneven in places, and some of the stitching is a little wonky, but they’re done! (Finished in just the nick of time to meet up with Maija and Molly for babytime at the library and a coffee date.) I was helped greatly in applying the bias tape by Amy Karol’s fabulous little video. I’m notorious for not finishing things, and I’ve come to the conclusion that making gifts for people is the perfect way to finish something. If I’m just making something for myself I either don’t ever get started or don’t finish. When I do give a handmade item as a gift it’s always the extra, “topper” gift. I don’t feel like my stuff is good enough to ever be the main gift, and I wonder if I ever will. Maybe after I take some sewing lessons…
Your crafts are SO good enough to be main gifts! My embroidered bird is one of my most treasured items and is proudly displayed in my front entranceway! Alas, I too suffer from not finishing items…
xoxoxo!