Sports Shorts

Daughter loves these shorts I made for her.  Just copied her old shorts which were falling apart.  This was my first attempt at using bias tape (make my own) around outside instead of trying to hem.  Was like a whole new world was opened up for me and now I'm keen on using that method on lots of other knit items.  I've used it on woven items before, like the Spiderman baby dress I made.  

These look really adorable on her, made another pair with black trim.  She wears them both.  

Daughter's sports tank tops

Here's my notes as I'm copying daughter's top for a pattern.  Those spaghetti straps were all wound together in weird ways.  Took forever to figure it out.  

 Here is the completed top on the right.  Unfortunately my straps turned out kinda fat as the fabric was thicker than the original top.  Daughter doesn't like it so off it went to charity.

 Here's another top I made (on the right) copying her original top on the left.  This one turned out really cute.

Mom's Tulip Top

The purple sweater is my Mom's old sweater that she's had forever and it's kinda falling apart.  So I took it home and copied it.  Not thrilled with my choice of decal colour but it's still cute on her.  

The story behind the tulip is that she used to make me dresses with tulips on them and stand me in front of her tulip garden for pictures.  She's unfortunately forgotten that now but made her smile when I told her the story.  

 Wasn't long enough so added a panel.

 Here's me trying it on.  You couldn't pay me to leave the house wearing this but it looks really cute on my Mom.

Walker Bags

My Mom's in a care home and I used to make walker bags for her before she went into her wheelchair.  Made around 30 of these for the residents.  Fun to see them toddling around with the little bags I made for them. 

This is a great stash buster idea and really appreciated by anyone using a walker.  

Coffee Cozies

Made these coffee cozies, and the little fabric box they're sitting in, for the local animal shelter.  Hope they sell as would be happy to make more.  

Made a ton of these for Movember, painted moustaches on them.  Think they raised around $300 for Testicular Cancer.  

Baby Jeans

A friend of my son had a baby.  They're huge Seattle Seahawks fans (I don't even know what sport that is (haha)) so I made these jeans for them.  

Blackjack Bag

My Mom has dementia and is living in a care home.  She's almost 94 years old!  She can't do much these days unfortunately but can still be sort of guided along with familiar old games.  I made this bag for her and filled it with tons of old buttons (see earlier blog about those) and a deck of cards.  Put the label on so other visitors know what it's for in case they want to play with her.

She doesn't get many visitors these days as can't really carry on a conversation anymore.  Was the social life of the party before so is sad, but I'm just glad she still knows us :).