Edwin's Pillow

I had a chat with my DD and she explained to me that her three year old would like a pillow and pillowcase combo like his big brother's.

We got out the new down pillow we had.  I don't remember the down being so....downy, but after much fluffy transferring....

and lots of vacuuming, I had a nicely stuffed little boy pillow.

Then the pillow case.  Just a few embroidery stitches...

And there you are....

I hope he likes the bug print.

Merry Christmas 2014

And suddenly there was with the angels a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying, Glory to God in the Highest and Peace and Goodwill to all men.

Plate Pockets

I am lucky enough to have two sets of dishes.  One for summer and one for winter.  The ones in storage are always in danger -- yes real danger of being chipped,  dropped or just messed up with the usual dust issues.  I started thinking I would look for a pattern for some sort of cover up for them....

Then I just decided to design it myself.  Leftovers from other projects and bits of batting....

I also wanted to experiment with invisible zippers as I had just seen a sewing show on TV about putting them in with your regular sewing foot.

TaDaaa...

I am really happy with the plate ones.  I wonder if I can manage to make some for soup bowls and saucers.