Well here it is!!! A mushroom hat or whatever you would want to call it. It's for the play Alice in Wonderland, one of the mushrooms. A friend's daughter is in the play and she had no idea how to make a mushroom hat. Of course, my brain started turning and I volunteered. Here's the finished product. It had to be grey with brown spots on top. Used that foam board, cut circle 18 ins. wide, with hole in center for head. Wrapped with fabric which is kind of like a fleece. Attached a baseball hat into hole. Made larger circle and gathered aroung edge, and attached to under side of bottom. The top was then stuffed with fiber fill...
This is view of bottom showing underside of hat.
The top of is with spots on. How fun this was!!!!
Here are the orange cheer bows for GD. They have orange sequin fabric attached down the middle of wide grosgrain orange ribbon and have pony tail holders attached onto bow. Their cheer coach just passed away from leukeumia a couple of weeks ago and they are wearing these and doing a special program for her at state competition this week-end. Orange is the color for leukeumia. It is very touching, as they all were crushed when she didn't win the fight against cancer.
Now I have to work on the binding on my first big quilt...
Well, I finally finished my first quilt, all sewn together,machine quilted, and binding put on. I really am happy with it altho I have a lot to learn and lots to practice before they will be o.k... I quilted each square with some different stitching so that I got practice on free motion quilting. I found a blog that had a different one for ea. day of the year. I did duplicate a lot of them with just back and forth stitching. But I try feathers, flowers circles and you name it. It was so much fun.
I also did free motion just following the print on the fabric. It's just like drawing. I love it. Especially after I got my machine cleaned. It was way over due, and really could tell the difference after I got it back. No more breaking of thread and nests on the backing. I do have some of them...
Just some more areas on it. Didn't have anyone or anyplace to put it to get the whole thing in picture.
This shows the back so you can see some of my attempts to get fancy with all my different free motions stitching. Soooo much fun. Cann't wait to get another one to that stage. On the back you can see some of the nests my machine was making before I got it cleaned. None after, but they do look bad. I free handed the feathers, but have lots of practice to do with them, lots... Would like to take a class on feathers. and I even have puckers and everything you are not supposed to have but, oh well. I love it, for my first one.
